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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 Joe Desertrat on Wednesday May 20 2015, @05:44PM
We have to remember we still have a relatively small pool of users compared to what Slashdot at least used to be. There are bound to be some statistical aberrations in modding results. As the user base grows most of these should disappear. As it is, I have yet to see anything that could be called modding abuse here that was not eventually corrected by others.
I also think that there would be less down modding if people who posted opinions tried to do so a little more civilly. If you start a post off with insults you are going to immediately cause negative feelings in those reading it and there are too many sub-threads I've seen that have degenerated into juvenile name calling and insults.