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No doubt this is the question on everyone's mind these days! Or, I am a conceited bastard who thinks everything is about me, and the bans applied to me are really about me, and not about the random imposition of power!
Whence aristarchus? Interesting, my recent experience with mod bombing had my karma reduced to almost single digit. Now I am not privy to the inter databases as someone like The Mighty Buzzard is, for some reason, but I could tell that perhaps several of the spam mods (-10, you know!) were not called for, were in error, and should have been rescinded immediately. This was not the case, and after a campaign of posting "no comment" to current articles, either my spam mods were rescinded or my fellow soylentils responded to my mayday call, and restored my karma. But since my spam mods were not immediately rescinded, I felt it was apropos to spam mod the most visible face of the right-wing bias, and although I have no evidence to suggest such, the spam modder of me, The Mighty Buzzard.
Those of use who are mere Soylentils get some idea of how things go down. If I rip Runaway1965 a new one over some stupid thing he has posted, I can expect to get several down mods, in that or other threads. Same thing if I have to, once again! correct the obviously rebutted khallow. Now, I am not suggesting, and I do not know, that these fine Soylentils which whom I have obvious disagreements, are down modding me just because I disagree with them. But the pattern persists.
So, after we have entered upon the "Spam mod aristarchus four times", and "aristarchus spam mods The Mighty Buzzard once" situation, things have been, well, "fluid". My karma has gone back up to the max. But curiously, it does not stay there. I seem to dip in to the low 40's, and then back up to 50, depending on where the sun is shining on the earth. Well, that is as may be. But if a majority of Soylentils are so opposed to my posts, I can only assume that my time here is wasted. Except, of course, my education of khallow and insulting of Runaway, and dismissing of jmorris, and . . . spam modding of The Marginally Brossander! Well, I was workig on a real journal on Ethics for Soylentils. It may not see the light of day, if the current tyranny of the spam mod admins continues.
Aristarchus, out. Love you all, authentic Soylentils!!!
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Thursday September 14 2017, @06:41AM (4 children)
Curious, wailed on the khallow, and my karma went down. Is this because so many like the khallow, or is it he his own self that mods me down? This is such a small community. It is like a town of around 299 residents, where we all know who is who, except we do not know who deals the mod points! Of course, when I point out that Runaway1929 is a crash of the stock market, I get down modded as well, I guess because some wish the crash of '29 had gone the other way! But, I can handle all of these. I really regret that I see that I have ten mod points, for every article and comment, and I can't use them just because the Mighty Brussander is still tied up in his jock strap over his beak, and OMG, Azuma, I will never be able to get that image out of my mind.
But seriously, why not is the Mounting Buzzard married, at least to one of the buzzards he might possibly have mounted? Fsck error? Or, he is one of them.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 15 2017, @01:41AM (1 child)
That sounds like a bug. If you're banned from moderating, it should say so, along with the date the ban expires. If it says you have mod points, you should be able to moderate.
The moderation FAQ says:
Some of your comments, among them the one I'm replying to, resemble the "other examples." The moderation guidelines can be changed, but I'd rather see a change in the nature of (some of) your comments.
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Sunday September 17 2017, @11:35AM
Not there, at the head of the options bar, where you can set the level at which you read. Says I have 10 moderator points! Hooray! But, of course, I cannot touch them, or use them, all because I dared to spam mod the Mortality Brisskard. Other examples? You are funny, AC! I think your comment might qualify as spam, since you seem to be attacking me for the quality of my posts. And I, for one, resent the implication that I should have to explain to idiots why they are idiots instead of just dumping the ridicule they so roundly deserve upon them. Have you heard of Fustakrakish's adventure with suspected bots, yet? https://soylentnews.org/~fustakrakich/journal/2623 [soylentnews.org] Very amusing.
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Tuesday September 19 2017, @03:39AM (1 child)
And curiouser, had some advice for khallow, in his own journal, mind you, and had some things to say to frojack, and the TMB, and now my karma is down to 44, a loss of 12% since this morning! Starting to look worse than a Trump Run on Wall Street! How will I ever recover? Perhaps you just cannot help some people, which I think is what Socrates figured out. But ya still gotta try, dammit!
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Thursday September 21 2017, @08:54AM
Most recent incident: spam modded for no apparent reason, maybe it is the end of the world, so karma dropped precipiteciously, down to 43. Loud complaints, raised by c0lo especially, and back to 50, and them immediately down to 49, 48, 47, for off topic posting about being spam modded. What is a poor Soylentil to do?