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Moderation Roundtable

posted by NCommander on Wednesday May 20 2015, @10:00AM   Printer-friendly
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

 
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  • (Score: 2) by paulej72 on Wednesday May 20 2015, @06:34PM

    by paulej72 (58) on Wednesday May 20 2015, @06:34PM (#185639) Journal

    There is a method that already exists for this, but there is an issue with the system that calculates the karma of an IP or subnet (the only way to track AC's). The problem is that an IP or subnet karma can be over the current 50 point karma limit. This means that it really hard for downmods to bring an AC user into karma trouble if they are good about getting at least a few upvoted comments.

    This issue is on on my todo list to look into and see why the karma limit is not set for IPs and subnets. The recent bout of AC trolls and the newish spam mod brought this discrepancy to light just recently.

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    Team Leader for SN Development
    Starting Score:    1  point
    Karma-Bonus Modifier   +1  
    Total Score:   2  

  • (Score: 2) by danomac on Thursday May 21 2015, @12:35AM

    by danomac (979) on Thursday May 21 2015, @12:35AM (#185816)
    That's interesting... however, I wonder if the AC karma should be automatically reset periodically, whether it be a day, a few hours, or whatever. It probably shouldn't be that persistent. I guess one thing that would pop up is if it does reset, the bit that does the tracking would have to reset too, just to make sure that autobans don't happen unfairly.