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posted by on Friday August 25 2017, @11:26PM   Printer-friendly
from the we're-really-big-time-now dept.

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?

 
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  • (Score: 2) by bart9h on Saturday August 26 2017, @02:58AM (2 children)

    by bart9h (767) on Saturday August 26 2017, @02:58AM (#559253)

    Or maybe downmodding ACs don't cost you modpoints?

    Starting Score:    1  point
    Karma-Bonus Modifier   +1  

    Total Score:   2  
  • (Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Saturday August 26 2017, @08:04AM (1 child)

    by maxwell demon (1608) on Saturday August 26 2017, @08:04AM (#559340) Journal

    That would just provoke bad behaviour.

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    The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
    • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 27 2017, @09:00AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 27 2017, @09:00AM (#559750)

      I can live with that. Downmoding is not erasing/censoring, although it can push a post into an unfitting company. For someone like me who always post as an AC and always reads at -1, it means that I, and whoever reads my posts, have to see some ... online vandalism equivalent, too, but any grownup should have enough guts to endure that.