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Moderation Roundtable

posted by NCommander on Wednesday May 20 2015, @10:00AM   
from the community-pulse-check dept.

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

• Re:The urge for change .... Re:The urge for change .... (Score: 2, Insightful) by mechanicjay on Wednesday May 20 2015, @03:24PM

  by mechanicjay (7) <reversethis-{gro ... a} {yajcinahcem}> on Wednesday May 20 2015, @03:24PM (#185524) Homepage Journal

  You make a fair point, however, constantly examining what we do to see if it's meeting the needs of the community and looking for things we can do better is how we can keep the site relevant and growing. Stagnation leads to death.

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  My VMS box beat up your Windows box.

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  Starting Score:	1		point
  Moderation		+1
  Insightful=1, Total=1
  Extra 'Insightful' Modifier		0
  Total Score:		2

• Re:The urge for change .... (Score: 3, Insightful) by kbahey on Wednesday May 20 2015, @03:28PM

  by kbahey (1147) on Wednesday May 20 2015, @03:28PM (#185530) Homepage

  I hear ya.

  While stagnation and stability are close, they not the same.

  Stability in the technology underlining the site is a good thing. Too many changes too quickly is not good.

  I'd rather that the efforts be focused on attracting more users for more comments and more moderation.

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  2bits.com, Inc: Drupal, WordPress, and LAMP performance tuning [2bits.com].

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