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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 Friday May 22 2015, @02:01PM
What about making the cost of moderating the larger, the higher the comment already is? A comment that's at +4 Interesting should only be moderated up to +5 interesting if it is a really outstanding post. That is, the score should not so much reflect how many people came around to moderate the post, but actually how good the post is. Making it more expensive to moderate up already high posts would encourage one to think about whether it is worth to further moderate up that already quite visible post, or if it wouldn't be more reasonable to spend the mod points on unmoderated or only slightly moderated posts.
The cost should, of course, be symmetric for up and down moderating (that is, the cost of brining a comment from +3 to +4 should be the same as the cost of bringing it from +4 to +3), to avoid bias (also, if several others have moderated it up, then maybe you should also think twice if it is really not that good).
As compensation to the increased moderation cost, the daily mod points could be increased.
A possible scale could be: