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posted by NCommander on Wednesday May 20 2015, @10:00AM   Printer-friendly
from the community-pulse-check dept.
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: 2) by kaszz on Wednesday May 20 2015, @11:26AM

    by kaszz (4211) on Wednesday May 20 2015, @11:26AM (#185394) Journal

    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)

    Starting Score:    1  point
    Karma-Bonus Modifier   +1  

    Total Score:   2  
  • (Score: 4, Informative) by Thexalon on Wednesday May 20 2015, @12:31PM

    by Thexalon (636) on Wednesday May 20 2015, @12:31PM (#185423)

    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

      by paulej72 (58) on Wednesday May 20 2015, @06:19PM (#185632) Journal

      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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