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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 q.kontinuum on Thursday May 21 2015, @10:12AM
I think we might want to increase the supported range for comment scores. Currently, most regulars post at +2. If they are modded +1 by only three people, it is indistinguishable from a post uprated by 10 people. Especially the use of extra modifiers becomes virtually pointless.
I also saw several AC posts unjustly modded down to -1, becoming invisible to most readers. If the range went down to -2 or -3 it would imply a review-process before a post hits the bottom.
At least the top should be adjusted from time to time, depending on how many comments are committed per day, and how many mod-points are used.
That said, the current system is not broken to me; I don't have strong feelings about these proposals. But if you want to tinker anyway, this might be a parameter to adjust.
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