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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

• The spread of mods is interesting The spread of mods is interesting (Score: 3, Interesting) by SlimmPickens on Wednesday May 20 2015, @10:06PM

  by SlimmPickens (1056) on Wednesday May 20 2015, @10:06PM (#185750)

  I still think that the spread of moderation is more interesting than the final score. It better reflects the views of the community.

  1. Be able to mouse over the comment to show the spread, or some other method that prevents you from having to click on the comment and force a page load.

  2. In one way or another allow the modding to be more granular. I think a lot of potential modding doesn't happen because one mod point is often too large.

  Starting Score:	1		point
  Moderation		+1
  Interesting=1, Total=1
  Extra 'Interesting' Modifier		0
  Karma-Bonus Modifier		+1
  Total Score:		3

• Re:The spread of mods is interesting (Score: 2) by takyon on Wednesday May 20 2015, @11:03PM

  by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Wednesday May 20 2015, @11:03PM (#185777) Journal

  Second to mousing over the score to see the spread. Could be done using JavaScript with a title attribute fallback.

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