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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, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Saturday August 26 2017, @05:05AM (5 children)
The problem with that is it's vulnerable to abuse in the long term. Registration is free and it's not hard to see someone with an axe to grind making a dozen burner accounts and Bayesian-poisoning a target to hell and gone.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 26 2017, @06:05AM (1 child)
It would have to be resistant to that, so accounts with little history don't carry much weight.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 26 2017, @09:30AM
Doesn't work - the attacker just makes noisier sock puppets, or lets them sleep longer before using.
(Score: 2) by NCommander on Saturday August 26 2017, @08:49PM (2 children)
This is primarily the reason metamoderation was never deployed to production. M2 (as Slashdot implemented it) was fixed almost two years ago, but I thought the concept was fundamentally flawed based on our experience with how people moderate on SN.
Still always moving
(Score: 2) by Reziac on Sunday August 27 2017, @12:56AM
I meta-modded a few times back when it was new, then decreed it a waste of time and never did it again.
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 27 2017, @02:37PM
The /. version had issues. I think adding an incorrect good or incorrect bad mod option that has no points associated with it could possibly be used to help evaluate whether people are too often modding things wrongly.
But, that would be a tremendous pain to get working right and shy of having people actually looking at the moderation that's being done, it's probably always going to be a problem.