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posted by NCommander on Tuesday April 01 2014, @07:00AM   Printer-friendly
from the now-with-longer-half-lifes dept.
*cough*

Ok, I meant to have an open forum about moderation *way* before this point. I did read the various feedback and comments left on my journal and the last moderation, and have made some changes to the moderation system.

First, mod points now expire after eight hours. I'm willing to extend this to 12 or 16 hours after I'm sure comments will still reach +5 fairly regularly. With luck, we'll get to the point we can extend mod-points to last a full 24 hours which I suspect will end most of the complaining on them vanishing too soon.

Second, I'd like to open the floor to making a more fundamental change to the moderation system. Specifically, allowing people to post AND moderate in the same discussion. We've seen plenty of posts get up to +5, which means 3-4 people gave up their right to post to keep our comments high quality. This was brought up during our last plea for stories, and I wanted to solicit more feedback before unleashing this upon the site.

I've floated the idea on IRC, and it seems there's a fair bit of support for removing the post/moderate split, though we'd need to make some changes to prevent rampant abuse. Here's what was suggested to keep things sane:
  • Mod points won't roll back after a post
  • Moderators can post in the same discussion (either before or after moderating), but can not moderate replies to their posts.

I've heard various ideas such as limiting it only after mods have expended their points (this will require implementing a cooldown to prevent a user from getting points again too soon). I want to hear your feedback, and I'll roll together something for the next major update of the site. Leave your comments

 
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  • (Score: 1) by Bartman12345 on Tuesday April 01 2014, @09:56AM

    by Bartman12345 (1317) on Tuesday April 01 2014, @09:56AM (#24002)

    I also like the idea of "levelling up" as karma is accrued. Perhaps certain amounts of karma could endow a user with a "title", like some other forums do, which could be displayed along with their UID in comments, so we could see at a glance where they are in the SN pecking order.

  • (Score: 2) by etherscythe on Tuesday April 01 2014, @04:45PM

    by etherscythe (937) on Tuesday April 01 2014, @04:45PM (#24311) Journal

    I'll second this. Say, for example, a user posts a lot in Science stories, gets several +5's. Give them a "science initiate" title. More +5's (particularly weighted towards "informative"?), "science guru". Stuff like that.

    I think it would be an alternative way of having some kind of authoritative voices involved in discussion, kind of like having accredited experts (i.e. have a degree) which could be valuable once we get enough posts that the threads need moderating to follow easily.

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