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  • (Score: 2) by bart9h on Monday August 10 2015, @08:11PM

    by bart9h (767) on Monday August 10 2015, @08:11PM (#220873)

    Damn, it happened again.

    I select the moderation, then hit "End" to go to the bottom of the page, but the moderation combobox had the focus, so it change the value to "Spam" instead.

    Then I try to select the right moderation and moderate again, but the system says I had already moderated on this. Why can't I correct and overwrite the previous moderation?

    Starting Score:    1  point
    Karma-Bonus Modifier   +1  

    Total Score:   2  
  • (Score: 2) by jmorris on Tuesday August 11 2015, @05:01AM

    by jmorris (4844) on Tuesday August 11 2015, @05:01AM (#221106)

    Meh, stuff happens. Get downmodded all the time, first spam mod though. For the record, THAT one burns karma; looks like one spam mod drains ten whole points. Guess I need to remember to post a couple of non-political posts now. :)

    Have to assume the system has some sort of safety mech to prevent abuse of the spam mod if it is that powerful so hope you don't get hosed too. Probably a rare enough event it likely doesn't make sense to want a way to take a mod back or anything. In the end, it's just mod points on a website, ain't terribly important.

    • (Score: 3, Informative) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday August 11 2015, @10:26AM

      by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Tuesday August 11 2015, @10:26AM (#221199) Homepage Journal

      Yeah, we manually check the spam mods every day. At least I do. Abuses carry a month's ban from moderating but accidental ones we just reverse, so always make sure and say something if it was accidental.

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      • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 18 2015, @03:54PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 18 2015, @03:54PM (#224449)

        Given the way this mod happened (and assuming accidental spam mods often go that way), what about adding a second "---" line after the spam mod, so this error results not in a spam mod, but in an invalid mod which gets ignored?

        • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday August 19 2015, @01:54PM

          by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Wednesday August 19 2015, @01:54PM (#224971) Homepage Journal

          Yeah, that's really a pretty good idea. Or put a duplicate Normal entry down there.

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          • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Hairyfeet on Thursday August 27 2015, @09:14AM

            by Hairyfeet (75) <reversethis-{moc ... {8691tsaebssab}> on Thursday August 27 2015, @09:14AM (#228531) Journal

            How about a "are you sure you want to mod this post X" for mods which can cause damage? this would seem to solve 2 problems, the first being accidental downmods and the second being those abusing downmods as it would be harder for them to say "it was just an accident" if they had to click through a second "are you sure" box.

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            • (Score: 3, Interesting) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday August 27 2015, @12:48PM

              by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Thursday August 27 2015, @12:48PM (#228561) Homepage Journal

              Or simply an Undo Spam link beside the comment title. It already exists for all admins and editors, it shouldn't be too difficult to have it appear if you're the one who moderated the post Spam as well. Hmm...

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  • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday August 11 2015, @10:20AM

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Tuesday August 11 2015, @10:20AM (#221198) Homepage Journal

    No worries. All fixed.

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