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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 NCommander on Thursday May 21 2015, @11:23AM

    by NCommander (2) Subscriber Badge <michael@casadevall.pro> on Thursday May 21 2015, @11:23AM (#185990) Homepage Journal

    There are no plans to overhaul moderation. The thread feedback has convienced me the system is largely fine as is. But we (the staff) sometimes just need to flat out ask what the community feels. At our largest, I think we're about 10-15 people active at any given time. We need to check on occasion that we're still in touch with reality and the community. I've (famously) managed to bug crap up by misreading intent, and while I took steps to correct that, it could have been avoided in the first place.

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  • (Score: 2) by kbahey on Wednesday May 27 2015, @02:36AM

    by kbahey (1147) on Wednesday May 27 2015, @02:36AM (#188412) Homepage

    Thanks for the reply, and thanks for noting the feedback from the community.