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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 kaszz on Thursday May 21 2015, @10:36PM

    by kaszz (4211) on Thursday May 21 2015, @10:36PM (#186237) Journal

    One improvement would be if downmodding trolls, spam, junk etc. Didn't cost moderator points. A separate "troll" account for that would be beneficial for the willingness to take action and not just save the mod points for good posts.

    Btw, when viewing a reply page from the inbox. It would make things more efficient if one had the parent post included. Otherwise one is forced to do a whole thread load and lookup the post which taxes the processor and i/o way more.

    Starting Score:    1  point
    Karma-Bonus Modifier   +1  
    Total Score:   2  

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 22 2015, @02:08PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 22 2015, @02:08PM (#186458)

    One improvement would be if downmodding trolls, spam, junk etc. Didn't cost moderator points.

    I think that would be an invitation to abuse. The whole idea of moderation points is that a single malign person cannot do too much damage.

    Also, with downmodding free, but upmodding not, it would create a bias for downmodding and against upmodding. Quite the opposite of what we want.