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posted by janrinok on Tuesday December 30 2014, @05:32PM   Printer-friendly

The full site update and post is coming up this weekend (barring unforeseen complications) but this is deserving of its own news update being as we had so many weigh in on it alone. While most of you really dug or were neutral on the idea, there were a few criticisms and most of them had some degree of validity. Most specifically the one that said you can see cause and effect more clearly if you change less at once. We absolutely cannot argue with that, so there's been a change to the Experiment.

The Spam moderation and abuse checking mechanism thereof are still going in. The Disagree moderation is still going in and Overrated is still going away. Moderation and posting in the same discussion in any order is still going in. What's not going in is moving all the current downmods to +0 mods. We're going to hold off testing that until we see if this solves most of the problems or not.

Because of another criticism, we'll also be changing how mod points are given out for the duration of the experiment. You may or may not have noticed but we already tested that over Christmas day and the day after by giving everyone who'd been registered a month or more and had "willing to moderate" checked mod points. The dataset is pretty small to infer much from but for the most part the people who said "give us more points and we can self correct" were correct within that two-day span. Not all the bad downmods were corrected by any means but quite a lot of them were. If we can keep this level or better of self-correction-of-jackassery going, I don't see much need for more drastic changes to the moderation system or even for meta-moderation really.

On a personal side note, I dig the fact that basically every comment out of the 150 that the Experiment post got was positive, constructive, or some combination of the two. Calling us bloody idiots is all good from a free speech angle but pretty much every one of our naysayers stepped up and added useful criticism as well. This makes me proud as hell to work for a project with a community that much better than the other site. Hats off to you guys.

 
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  • (Score: 2) by tibman on Tuesday December 30 2014, @06:22PM

    by tibman (134) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday December 30 2014, @06:22PM (#130268)

    A small GLaDOS voice was going off while reading TFS. Did the overlords gleefully post anonymous spam and troll posts and then deposit an equal number of moderation points on unknowing test subjects? Where's my cake?

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 30 2014, @06:35PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 30 2014, @06:35PM (#130273)

    You really want the Troll's dick in your anus. Admit it

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 30 2014, @06:38PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 30 2014, @06:38PM (#130275)

      Of course this was an test for new moderation system