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"Buzzy, you're probably the dumbest person I've ever encountered. Well, there is aristarchus, so make it 2nd dumbest."
Journal of The Mighty Buzzard (18)
So, I know you all have read the moderator guidelines and remember the very important "Concentrate more on promoting than on demoting." bit, yes? Well, I went looking for who the worst offenders were against that out of curiousity. I'm not sure it's really proper to shame them here though. You lot can leave your opinions on that here and us staff types will discuss it later.
What I absolutely can and will post are the badasses who have most excellent ratios of upmods to downmods. Without further ado, here's everyone with over a thousand upmods to their credit and a downmod percentage of less than 10%.
+--------------+-----------------+
| percent_down | nickname |
+--------------+-----------------+
| 0.0865 | VLM |
| 0.1188 | anubi |
| 0.1209 | AnonTechie |
| 0.2067 | tonyPick |
| 0.4737 | redneckmother |
| 0.5438 | Reziac |
| 0.6222 | CoolHand |
| 0.6494 | Bobs |
| 0.7171 | WillAdams |
| 0.8937 | McGruber |
| 1.1099 | GlennC |
| 1.1341 | fritsd |
| 1.2910 | maxwell demon |
| 1.3060 | pinchy |
| 1.3723 | HiThere |
| 1.4609 | monster |
| 1.8067 | DannyB |
| 1.8447 | J053 |
| 1.8601 | quacking duck |
| 2.2772 | deimtee |
| 2.4750 | mhajicek |
| 2.5053 | Unixnut |
| 2.6012 | dak664 |
| 2.6693 | zocalo |
| 2.8353 | Yog-Yogguth |
| 2.8932 | rts008 |
| 3.1125 | khchung |
| 3.2325 | The Archon V2.0 |
| 3.5069 | GungnirSniper |
| 3.5307 | canopic jug |
| 3.7419 | Freeman |
| 3.7582 | jelizondo |
| 4.3070 | turgid |
| 4.3096 | hubie |
| 4.5095 | bradley13 |
| 4.8469 | Scruffy Beard 2 |
| 4.9924 | Nerdfest |
| 5.1967 | Kymation |
| 6.1929 | Bloopie |
| 6.2708 | linkdude64 |
| 7.2055 | SpockLogic |
| 7.2575 | acid andy |
| 7.3139 | NotSanguine |
| 7.4517 | Ethanol-fueled |
| 8.5932 | KiloByte |
| 9.5238 | Hawkwind |
| 9.6141 | bart9h |
+--------------+-----------------+
Congrats to VLM. He is currently Da Man.
(Score: 2) by Nerdfest on Friday August 18 2017, @02:28PM (2 children)
Any way you can do it while ignoring downmods that don't count against score, like "Disagree" (assuming this hasn't already been done)?
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday August 18 2017, @03:04PM (1 child)
Already done. I didn't count Disagree because it's not really a downmod and didn't count Spam because it's only for very specific cases. I did screw up and not count people with zero downmods, though I'm not sure we have any of those with over a thousand upmods.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Nerdfest on Friday August 18 2017, @03:44PM
Awesome, thanks. I find stats like this quite interesting.
(Score: 2) by Reziac on Friday August 18 2017, @03:05PM (1 child)
Yep, there are always plenty of folks willing to downmod at the drop of a hat; why should I waste my mod points emulating them??
My rare downmods are reserved for the most wrongspirited personal attacks and one particular flavor of egregious horseshit. If I wasted 'em on "Disagree: I'd do nothing else.
I do find it ...inbteresting... that only a tiny percentage of users have a ratio better than 1:10. What percentage of regular modders do we come to?
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday August 18 2017, @03:35PM
Well, only like 1/3 of registered users have used their mod points at all. Of the people with over a thousand upmods or downmods under their belt, yall make up 67.14%. Makes me pretty happy about the state of the folks who moderate regularly around here.
Side note, I didn't even make the list, good or bad; I don't moderate enough.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 1) by AssCork on Friday August 18 2017, @03:07PM (4 children)
/me rolls cart through streets
Seriously though, I'd be interested in what constitutes "high" downmods - maybe anonimize the data a bit? (Instead of "AssCork", just "A*****k")
Perhaps just the top 10?
Just popped-out of a tight spot. Came out mostly clean, too.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday August 18 2017, @03:55PM (3 children)
You're not on the list of shame, if you were wondering. There are only five truly committed bad moderators (people with over 1000 upmods or 1000 down mods and over 25% downmods) and not a single one surprised me.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 1) by AssCork on Friday August 18 2017, @06:43PM (2 children)
Whew! Though I would be surprised if I had a thousand of anything here (I'm still pretty dang new).
If someone wants an example of the dataset, I "hearby grant permission for a one-time publication of the entries pertaining to my account, excluding payment information, email address, and access-controls (eg: passwords)"
(not sure if that would be helpful or not)
Cheers!
P.S: I hope your back is doing better.
Just popped-out of a tight spot. Came out mostly clean, too.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday August 18 2017, @07:35PM (1 child)
Since you asked...
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 1) by AssCork on Tuesday August 29 2017, @11:24AM
Awesome! Wow, I need to step-up my upmod game :)
Just popped-out of a tight spot. Came out mostly clean, too.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday August 18 2017, @07:37PM (20 children)
In case anyone was wondering:
In other words, I downmod slightly less than once every time I use up a batch of mod points.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 18 2017, @08:21PM (1 child)
No. No one was wondering. What we want to see is your amateur porn video, the one where it's just you fellating yourself.
(Score: 4, Funny) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday August 18 2017, @08:55PM
It's less bother to just use a mirror if I want to see. Why would I film it?
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Friday August 18 2017, @09:05PM (8 children)
Ooh ooh, Mr. Kottayam: do me! Do me!
Errrr... Ummmm, I take that back. Don't do me (unless you'll be gentle, lol).
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Friday August 18 2017, @09:10PM
Damn spell checker.
I know, I gotta mod more. Sigh.
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday August 18 2017, @09:12PM (6 children)
Doing better than me:
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Friday August 18 2017, @09:27PM (5 children)
Wha? You DON'T sleep, do you? That was FAST!
How's the back?
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday August 18 2017, @09:37PM (4 children)
Surprisingly good today for all that it has a pulled muscle in it. I'm not going to take the boat out this weekend cause of lifting but I can probably get away with bank fishing.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Friday August 18 2017, @10:12PM
That's it: just like Snow, get all the fishies you can, lol.
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 19 2017, @01:18AM (2 children)
not going to take the boat out this weekend cause of lifting
Sounds like you're doing too much work.
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(Lazy guy)
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday August 19 2017, @01:37AM (1 child)
Getting injured doing the same thing I've done a hundred times aside, it's the easiest way to move that boat around. The tongue weight is less than 50lbs and the rest of it is light enough to push all around the yard and driveway if necessary. I have no idea if I tried to turn instead of lifting straight up or used more back than I normally do or just slept wrong the night before and weakened that muscle. Bet you I lift straight up with my legs next time though.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 19 2017, @06:08PM
50lbs? That's just shy of 23kg in Christian measurements.
(Score: 2) by Marand on Saturday August 19 2017, @02:49AM (7 children)
I was hoping the list would have more entries, since I'm curious what my ratio of up/down mods is. Usually the named posters get plenty of upmods on their own, so I tend to save a few points in case I see ACs making good comments, or to downmod spam/troll shit that contributes nothing. Means I often leave points unused, though.
Actually, that would be an interesting statistic, too: how many people upvote ACs, and how much? It could give an idea how many users read at a 0 threshold.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday August 19 2017, @09:55AM (5 children)
Barely didn't make the 10% cut. Still an excellent record though:
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Marand on Sunday August 20 2017, @06:32AM (1 child)
Nice. I expected I'd be around/slightly under 15%, so that's a bit better than I'd guessed. I'd probably have made it under 10% if I hadn't been modding down aristarchus' incoherent and frequently off-topic ramblings for a while. lol. I stopped when his posts started getting slightly more on-topic and/or readable, though. (Or maybe I just started understanding them better, but that's a scary thought and I refuse to entertain it further.)
Thanks for both responses. I'm actually surprised so many read at 0 and -1, there's usually a lot of talk about ignoring ACs and browsing at +1 that made it seem like the low-threshold readers would be less common. I like doing -1 with 0 breakthrough so that the -1s are collapsed. Lets me auto-hide a few people's comments, and it's easy to expand to see if other things really belong there.
Finally, random thought/question I just had: how hard would it be to add user-specific RSS feeds linked to the notification system? I check headlines by RSS, so I sometimes go days between visiting the site directly, depending on what comes up, which means I can go days without seeing the notifications about replies to me. So what I'm thinking is that being able to opt-into SN generating an RSS feed with a unique identifier (UUID or something similar) would be awesome. If you've messed with Reddit any, they do something like that and it's really convenient.
Don't know how popular a feature it would be for others, since RSS lost a lot of its visibility after google killed off its reader service, but I try to use it whenever I can. Less load on the sites usually, plus time wasted, if I'm only loading the sites when there's something new to see. Still, SN isn't a typical crowd so maybe there'd be more interest here than most places.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday August 20 2017, @10:35AM
Eh, it depends on how you have your notifications set up. It's be pretty damned hard if you're set to get them via email because we don't keep record of them after they're sent out. It shouldn't be too difficult to set up a dynamic rss feed with your messages in it if you're set to Web though. Your feed reader would need to log in, of course, to keep world+dog from reading your messages but the rest of it shouldn't be terribly difficult.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 05 2019, @12:16PM (2 children)
Buzz, Why not just go ahead and do everyone?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 07 2019, @11:14AM (1 child)
Not enough condoms?
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday February 07 2019, @01:05PM
You guys know this post was from August of last year, yeah?
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday August 19 2017, @10:14AM
Since go-live, 1961 users have moderated ACs 108,918 times. A hefty majority of us browse at 0 (5330) with -1 coming in second (889).
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 05 2019, @12:13PM
So, you really are a cranky bastard!
Good to have confirmed..
(Score: 3, Touché) by The Archon V2.0 on Friday August 18 2017, @11:13PM (1 child)
... downvotes everyone...
... laughs evilly.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 05 2019, @12:34PM
*cries*
You pick on me a lot! I just know it! ;-(
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday February 05 2019, @02:11PM (1 child)
I am happy to be on this list. I can say that I stand behind the few down mods I have given. I try to avoid down mods. Mostly of the obviously troll or flamebait variety. I don't know what I think of "Disagree". If I disagree I think I should reply rather than mod.
Young people won't believe you if you say you're older than Google. (born before 1998-09-03)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 06 2019, @02:09AM
... and who are you, exactly?