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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 20 2015, @11:27PM
Should you be modding a post by someone who shares your computer?
I can see a husband and wife both reading SN. Wouldn't they have a bias for each others posts? The same thing with brothers, or roommates. It kinda makes it unfair if you have a personal cheerleader modding your posts up and anything critical of you down.
The only possibility is people posting from a internet cafe, and frankly I just think it would be a rare occurrence that two random people in the same internet cafe would want to mod each others post.
If someone does exist with a need to mod a post from the same IP then it is trivial to bypass the block. Load it up on your phone, find another hot spot, borrow a friends phone, whatever. Seriously its trivial. It would just slow down someone who routinely mods their own posts. If it really is that important that is.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 22 2015, @02:25PM
IP != computer.
Behind a single IP, there could be an entire corporate network. OTOH, it would be no problem to have two different IPs for the same computer by simply using a VPN (and actually, just disconnecting/reconnecting your DSL is already likely to give you a different IP).