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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: 5, Insightful) by q.kontinuum on Wednesday May 20 2015, @11:33AM
I disagree. That way, any post with just 4 proponents will get highest rating, even if it is offensive,racist,brainless shit only supported by these 5 people and no-one else
Even without these extreme cases, I think there are enough cases where a comment is halfway ok, marked hyper-clever by a minority having a lower perspective, and can't be corrected anymore.
I agree that the focus should be on promotion rather than demotion, but with our system of awarding 5 mod-points to each user every night there are really enough mod points going around to compensate for some down-mods.
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 20 2015, @05:07PM
promotion rather than demotion
How about promotion costs 1 mod point and demotion costs 2 mod points?
Instead of someone subtracting five points from a side they disagree with, they can either subtract only two or add five points to "their side".
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 20 2015, @05:15PM
There is a mod for that.