Ashtead's Journal: Lookin' at some old stuff ...

I've been getting the suggestion for meta-moderation again, and this time several of the posts were from June onwards. It is as if I wonder if all the hullabaloo about the 10th anniversary pushed the metamod-invitation out of the way, and not everyone keeps remembering to go look at metamod.pl every now and then...

This meta-modding activity has also brought another set of 5 mod-points to be spent on the worthy, so things seem to be in fine order.

Now, the thread of interest was some meta-discussion on "Interesting vs Insightfui" as a flamewar with a set of jokers posting mild flames and another set of jokers moderating them Insightful or Interesting... Since the whole topic is about flamewars, this isn't really offtopic, but it is strictly not Insightful, though whether it is Interesting is more a matter of opinion. Informative it certainly isn't either, as it brings no new knowledge on the table. Funny? Could be, like Interesting, it depends on the audience. But did this post really show insight? Not obviously, though as a statement of opinion it could well be it did. Time to go look at the context.

And this one made me laugh: Someone with the name ov lexical (842527) says: I can't wait for these posts/mod to show up for meta-moderation....

Guess what! It just did, after some 5 months.

I won't reveal whether I considered the metamod fair or not.