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
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Reziac on Wednesday May 20 2015, @01:15PM
Occasionally I mod up the comment I'm replying to, so it doesn't look like I'm talking to myself. :) I figure if a comment is worth replying to, it's worth having more people see it, and if it's at zero it's hidden from a lot of folks.
So I find this to be a really useful feature of our current moderation scheme.
Seriously, I really like how it's working now, and have no complaints.
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Wednesday May 20 2015, @06:58PM
However, one tweak that I like the idea of is a karma buffer. You can go over 50, but each night you lose floor(karma/5)-9 points if you're over 50. So if you can post a lot of good stuff and get to 70, next day you'll be 65, the day after you'll be 61, then 57, then 55, 53, 52, 51, and finally steady state at 50. This protects you better against abusive downmods, and encourages regular topping up of the buffer.
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