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Meta: Loser Noobs and Their Contributions to the Site

posted by on Thursday September 03 2020, @08:00PM   Printer-friendly
from the silver-linings dept.

The Mighty Buzzard writes:

Congrats to the wannabe APK noobtard for advancing the site's codebase despite me having extremely limited time to play. I added three lines of code and now Spam modded comments (and comment trees) auto-collapse and you can still moderate a comment as Spam even if it's already at the minimum score. Honestly, the folks using any other downmod on obvious Spam annoy me more than the noobtard does but that annoyance at least is now history. Changes are to hot code only, I'll put them in the repo as part of my next pull request.

Suck it, noob. --TMB

 
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  • (Score: 1) by RandomFactor on Friday September 04 2020, @05:39PM

    by RandomFactor (3682) Subscriber Badge on Friday September 04 2020, @05:39PM (#1046414) Journal

    While I haven't been on /. in ages, the plumbing there was a bit more tricked out.
     
    The primary method employed to address the overuse of agree/disagree type moderation (or other invalid moderation activity) was Meta-moderation (the community moderating moderations.)
    Meta Moderations then had the potential to reduce/increase the frequency with which an account was awarded mod points.
     
    I actually liked that approach, except the interface never gave enough information and I quite often had to go look at the original thread to get enough context to make any kind of reasonable call.
     
    I don't know that this would work on SN however. With SN's smaller user base, opinion-based meta-moderation and mod point restrictions would almost certainly result in accounts with views outside the largest bubble being provided less opportunities to moderate and effectively becoming more heavily marginalized than currently.
     
    As a side note- I floated the idea of giving editors and such a kind of super-spam mod option over on IRC the other day, and was informed everybody had the exact same capability and it didn't sound like there was any philosophical wiggle room on that. Gotta take the bad with the good I guess :-)

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