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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 martyb on Sunday May 24 2015, @05:09PM
Thanks for the feedback! If I understand correctly, that means that all the upstream providers could have rolled out full IPv6 support and the IPv4 stuff would have still worked. Is that correct? The reluctance to do so, of course, is based on the cost of replacing stuff that 'still works' and will be less expensive to replace the longer they wait (Moore's Law) as well as learning a whole new way of doing things with all the attendant mistakes inherent in learning the ropes of doing so.
That makes me wonder if Google's gigabit fiber roll out is IPv4 or IPv6. Especially since they are installing new equipment all over, it would strike me as terribly short-sighted to roll out non-IPv6 capable equipment.
Thanks again for the reply; it's something that had me wondering for quite a while!
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(Score: 2) by Zinho on Sunday May 24 2015, @08:21PM
Yep, you've pretty much got it. An ISP that supports IPv6 supports IPv4-only clients just fine. A web host that runs dual stack can serve both IPv4 and IPv6 clients with no problem. It's the poor folks on backwards ISP networks (like me, on Verison FIOS) who can't participate on the IPv6 web. And, yes, you've also correctly identified the motivations (or lack thereof) for the ISPs to stay on IPv4 as long as possible.
For what it's worth, google fiber is running IPv6 switches for all of its new gear, [google.com] so their customers have the choice to go IPv6 native it they like.
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(Score: 1) by martyb on Monday May 25 2015, @02:31AM
I really appreciate your replies! You have cleared up a world of confusion for me — thank you!
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