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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: 2) by kaszz on Wednesday May 20 2015, @11:26AM
Could someone tell us how many points up or down these moderation ratings produce?
Normal
Insightful
Interesting
Informative
Funny
Touché
Underrated
Overrated
Disagree
Offtopic
Redundant
Flamebait
Troll
Spam
(a side note, "Offtopic" and "Flamebait" should probably have a space in them)
(Score: 4, Informative) by Thexalon on Wednesday May 20 2015, @12:31PM
Last I checked, the points were:
0 - Normal, Disagree
+1 - Insightful, Interesting, Informative, Funny, Touche, Underrated
-1 - Overrated, Offtopic, Redundant, Flamebait, Troll, Spam
At times in the past, Funny has given the post a +1 but not given +1 to karma, I'm not sure if that's still true.
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(Score: 2) by paulej72 on Wednesday May 20 2015, @06:19PM
Funny is how you stated still, and spam gives the modee -10 karma hit. Also Underrated and Overrated do not change the modee's karma and are only allowed to a post that has already been moderated.
All other mods give the same karma as the points.
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