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After my last SN post the topic of moderation was brought up. Since its been quite awhile since we last openly discussed the state of moderation, I want to give the community a venue to discuss their feelings on it, and if the system needs further refinement. As a reminder, here's a review for how the system is currently setup:
- 5 mod points are handed out to at 00:10 UTC to users with positive karma
- ACs start at +0, users with karma less than 40 post at +1, users above that can post at +2
- You need 10 karma to mark some spam or troll
- Under normal circumstances, the staff do *not* have unlimited mod points, but can (and have) banned abusers of the moderation system
Please also review our SoylentNews Moderation Guidelines.
As always, we are willing to make changes to the system, but please post examples *with* links to any cases of suspected mod abuse. It's a lot easier to justify changing the system when evidence is in black and white. I also recommend that users make serious proposals on changes we can make. I'm not going to color the discussion with my own opinions, but as always, I will respond inline with comments when this goes live, and post a follow up article a few days after this one
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by Marneus68 on Wednesday May 20 2015, @10:27AM
While I see where you're coming from, I'm not sure this is a viable proposal. It looks good on paper, but it doesn't take time in consideration.
A better, more researched and in-depth comment, taking much more time to be written, will inevitably end up lower on the scale your propose since the article itself will be further in the site history. As the conversation goes by and better arguments and comments are brought up, less and less people will still be active in the thread, thus making your system a bad way to promote the best comment. It will only end up promoting the first few interesting ones on top of the last best.
(Score: 2) by engblom on Wednesday May 20 2015, @10:40AM
Isn't what you describe a problem existing already now? I mean if discussions have begun on a topic, the almost only way to get your response visible is to reply to another comment rather than posting a new comment. I have several times seen comments being offtopic to comment threads.
My proposal does not solve this particular problem, but it does not make it worse. It however helps in getting more of the interesting juice visible.
(Score: 2) by wantkitteh on Wednesday May 20 2015, @11:25AM
People who get the earlier comments in will naturally receive more moderation simply because more people will see what they say with less competition for the reader's mod points. That's perfectly natural and I wouldn't say it was a "problem", more a "home truth".