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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 NCommander on Thursday May 21 2015, @11:28AM
There are people who simply do not want to create an account on principle. Moderation seems to do fairly well at keeping the crud buried, and if necessary, sysops have access to the "bitchslap" script which can mass mod an entire IPID or subnet ID to oblivion (we've fortunately never had to use this). Some of the best comments I've read come from ACs who simply do not want to register. There are benefits to having an account such as persistent preferences, but I'm fairly happy with allowing ACs to comment. If it ever became a true issue, we can block AC posting on a per-story basis (functionality we inherited).
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