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Welcome, new trolls! We're pleased as punch to have you aboard, unfortunately as you may have noticed our moderators are unable to give you the moderations you've been working so hard for. Since we can't really do much about people not moderating more, we're going to be giving out more points so that the ones that do can give you the attention you so desperately crave.
Moderators: Starting a little after midnight UTC tonight, everyone will be getting ten points a day instead of five. The threshold for a mod-bomb, however, is going to remain at five. This change is not so you can pursue an agenda against registered users more effectively but so we can collectively handle the rather large uptick in anonymous trolling recently while still being able to have points remaining for upmodding quality comments. This is not an invitation to go wild downmodding; it's helping you to be able to stick to the "concentrate more on upmodding than downmodding" bit of the guidelines.
Also, this is not a heavily thought-out or permanent change. It is a quick, dirty adjustment that will be reviewed, tweaked, and likely changed before year's end. Questions? Comments?
(Score: 3, Disagree) by Snotnose on Saturday August 26 2017, @12:02AM (13 children)
I don't mod AC's anywhere but down. If you can't stick your name on your droppings I'm not gonna bother.
When the dust settled America realized it was saved by a porn star.
(Score: 4, Informative) by Gaaark on Saturday August 26 2017, @12:32AM (6 children)
I don't usually mod AC's either, but if one posts something funny or interesting, I'll grant them an up mod. You have to realize that some members just like being anon.
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 26 2017, @02:23AM (2 children)
If you've done nothing wrong, you have nothing to hide.
(Score: 3, Touché) by Gaaark on Saturday August 26 2017, @12:13PM (1 child)
Tell that to the Jews in Nazi Germany, 1938ish, who were told to report to police stations to be identified as Jews.
Oh...you can't. They're dead.
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 26 2017, @07:51PM
whoooooooooooooooshhhhhhhhhhh
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(Score: 5, Insightful) by Reziac on Saturday August 26 2017, @03:24AM (2 children)
I usually don't notice who the poster is til after I've already decided to mod it, so makes no diff to me if it's an AC or whoever.
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.
(Score: 2) by Kell on Saturday August 26 2017, @04:27AM (1 child)
Ditto - moderate the comment, not the commenter. But given that the vast majority of shit comments come from ACs, there is reason to consider "open season" on moderating ACs
Scientists ask questions. Engineers solve problems.
(Score: 3, Touché) by Reziac on Saturday August 26 2017, @04:47AM
Oh, I dunno... I often find I've modded up an AC. And I can think of a dozen folks here who shitpost under a regular nym.
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 26 2017, @03:13AM
My ac posts are the same as my logged in posts
(Score: 2) by Arik on Saturday August 26 2017, @03:33AM
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 5, Insightful) by maxwell demon on Saturday August 26 2017, @08:02AM
You are doing the readers of this site a disservice. Moderation is not done for the posters, but for the readers. If you don't want to read AC posts, you can just go to your settings and give ACs a negative score there. That way you are not affecting other readers who want to read comments based on their quality, not based on their authorship.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 26 2017, @01:27PM
That's a direct admission of intentional abuse of the moderation system.
This "Snotnose" account, and any other associated accounts or IP addresses, should be permanently banned from moderating here.
(Score: 2) by FakeBeldin on Monday August 28 2017, @07:51AM (1 child)
I don't mod AC's anywhere but up. If I think it's worth reading, I'll mod it up so it gets more eyeballs.
Downmodding AC's is kind of pointless - either they are at 0 where the only folks who get to see them are the folks who choose to do so (so why interfere), or they are upmodded, in which case other moderators already found the comment worthy of more attention.
(Score: 2) by FakeBeldin on Monday August 28 2017, @08:02AM
PS: If you were trolling: congrats! Bait widely taken by many, including me!