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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: 4, Insightful) by opinionated_science on Wednesday May 20 2015, @11:04AM
is this the preferred method? Fair enough, but I try not to comment on threads I moderate - it seems self serving. A citation would be a passive guidance that "this document is informative", rather than "this comment is disagreeing".
(Score: 3, Interesting) by q.kontinuum on Wednesday May 20 2015, @12:51PM
In which sense? You can't moderate your own comments, and moderating others appears to be a good reason to provide some additional comment. Also, by modding parent down you are reducing the visibility of the thread you are posting in, so it's not self-serving. Voting parent up might be, but not much, since he might outshine your own comment :-)
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(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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