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  • (Score: 1) by shrewdsheep on Tuesday June 08 2021, @07:55AM (3 children)

    by shrewdsheep (5215) on Tuesday June 08 2021, @07:55AM (#1143059)

    Same thing happened to EF as what happened to rDT... in this case his "offensive" posting (as you called it) caught up with him. He received enough downmods that it caused his karma to drop below a level where he could post comments.

    Maybe that is a bad thing. If one wants to be offensive one can always go AC. I can block a user (can I?) but I cannot block AC. Will users with low karma first start at -1? This would seem sensible to me: do not ban but start posts at -1. With 10 mod points per day it seems that by using a couple accounts a given user can be banned in a few or even on a single day. BTW 10 mod points per day is to much IMO, bring it down to 7.

  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by DECbot on Tuesday June 08 2021, @03:26PM

    by DECbot (832) on Tuesday June 08 2021, @03:26PM (#1143161) Journal

    It started as 5 points, but moderation was very sparse. TMB was the one who poked that the code to first make 5 points an automatic thing instead of random chance and then bumping up the point level to 10 to encourage more moderation. I agree that the original point scheme from slashcode doesn't work for a smaller community like SN. Perhaps the better solution was bumping up the chance you are awarded mod points to a number between the $orig_chance and the current 100% chance we enjoy now? That way you're more likely to receive points than what the original slashcode dolled out thus returning moderation into a reward for good karma and limiting users with sock puppets to a smaller pool of points to modbomb posts. Of course the way to defeat that is to just have more sock puppet accounts to increase your odds of getting an account with mod points that day--but with a vast quantity of puppet accounts to guarantee a daily pool of points, signs of abuse would be flagrant in the IP logs. Though take my recommendations with a grain of salt, I'm not staff and I haven't actually looked at the code. This is just what I recall from previous conversations about the topic.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 08 2021, @07:47PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 08 2021, @07:47PM (#1143258)

    BTW 10 mod points per day is to much IMO, bring it down to 7.

    Especially if those points are used to punish your enemies.

    It depends on what your definition of "offensive" is.

    We've seen so many times here what the definition of "enemies" is.

    • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday June 22 2021, @01:19PM

      by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday June 22 2021, @01:19PM (#1147987) Journal

      Especially if those points are used to punish your enemies.

      We needz 15 pointz, precious. (grin)

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