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(Score: 2) by jmorris on Tuesday August 11 2015, @05:01AM
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
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.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 18 2015, @03:54PM
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
Yeah, that's really a pretty good idea. Or put a duplicate Normal entry down there.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Hairyfeet on Thursday August 27 2015, @09:14AM
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.
ACs are never seen so don't bother. Always ready to show SJWs for the racists they are.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday August 27 2015, @12:48PM
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...
My rights don't end where your fear begins.