Sneakernets's Journal: Slashdot moderation is a weird beast.

I"m not trying to say my karma sucks (ok it does, I have none at all thanks to some assholes that consider me overrated), but it's too easy to lose karma than to gain it.

When I did my first few posts, I was just random all the time. I had a few 5, insightful posts, and a lot of good 5, funny posts. the problem is, when you try to be funny (as I am a lot), you run the risk of a pissed off slashdotter with mod points that decides to waste his points calling you "overrated" or "offtopic".

And you can't "remove" that once it's there.

I hope the karma/moderation system is a lot better in the future. It should be redone so that only people with superhigh karma can moderate. Otherwise you end up with good comments from people like me buried due to a -1.

Of course this is redundant, off-topic, and ovverated, so that's -3 for me right here. Perhaps I need to stop being funny and start doing insightful-funny combos like I used to.

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[Captain Splendid]

It should be redone so that only people with superhigh karma can moderate.

That's roughly how it works, actually. Except having really good karma does not necessarily equal non-asshat.

Also, editors have unlimited points, so there's that to consider.

Lastly, with a little patience and a lot of whoring, it's relatively easy to get back to excellent karma.

Now, if you have somone with a good supply of mod points stalking you, you're pretty much fucked, but things aren't that bad yet, are they?

Funny won't help...

[Sciros]

Also, Funny doesn't raise your karma one bit. Even if you threw a hundred "5 Funny" comments out there in the next week, your Karma would stay where it is. Only Insightful and Interesting get you Karma.

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[Sneakernets]

So All I gotta do is say something crazy and it make sense somehow?

I can do that! ;)