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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
(Score: 4, Informative) by Marand on Wednesday May 20 2015, @10:59AM
My only real issue is the correction of bad downmods. Specifically, it offends my OCD to moderate something "Insightful", "Informative", etc. when in reality I think it's not particularly insightful or informative; rather, I think it was unfairly downmodded. "Underrated" bugs me too, since then you get things like "Score: 2 (Troll)".
I use "Interesting" for that. It obliterates the Spam or Troll label and it's generic enough that it works as a catch-all for any post that isn't specifically insightful or informative.