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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 janrinok on Wednesday May 20 2015, @06:38PM

    by janrinok (52) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday May 20 2015, @06:38PM (#185641) Journal
    Or let us pay with a normal debit card such as Visa. In some countries in Europe, there is protection provided automatically to transactions conducted by credit/debit cards which does not extend to bitcoin, paypal etc.
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  • (Score: 2) by NCommander on Wednesday May 20 2015, @10:47PM

    by NCommander (2) Subscriber Badge <michael@casadevall.pro> on Wednesday May 20 2015, @10:47PM (#185771) Homepage Journal

    I've used a debt card with paypal with no issues before, but almost all US debt cards can be run as credit (and this is true when I've used my debt card in the Eurozone). As we're United States based, we're somewhat limited to payment processors in the United States; otherwise we could be subject to taxes in foreign countries. It is, unfortunately, a cost we simply can't afford at this moment. If we were flush with money, opening a European equivalent of the PBC might be an option, but thats not the case.

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    • (Score: 2) by janrinok on Thursday May 21 2015, @07:29AM

      by janrinok (52) Subscriber Badge on Thursday May 21 2015, @07:29AM (#185928) Journal
      Thanks for the explanation. Unfortunately, using a debit (not debt) card with Paypal takes away the protection that some European laws give to the user, nor will I ever give Paypal my money. Give me an address and I will send cash!