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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: 2) by opinionated_science on Wednesday May 20 2015, @02:58PM
well Ars has "controversial"..I consider disagree to be "disagrees with known facts". Hence, I think in citations...
(Score: 3, Informative) by frojack on Wednesday May 20 2015, @04:07PM
That may be what you consider "disagree" to mean, but there is nothing to suggest that.
It means what it says: The person modding simply disagrees with the post.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Wednesday May 20 2015, @04:36PM
Wouldn't "controversial" and "flamebait" be fairly similar? Since it's rather hard to judge intent over the Internet.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 22 2015, @02:38PM
I wouldn't think so. "Flamebait" for me is not so much about the content, but about how it is expressed. So I'd consider a statement like "Linux is not a good operating system" as wrong, but not flamebait. But "Linux is shit, and only morons use it" would be flamebait.