davidsyes's Journal: Spandex_Panda

Other than "friending" you, i don't know how to inform you that i gave + moderation to your comment

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1259127&cid=28232053

about the summary. If i wrote this comment, then /. wierd system would negate my scoring. Probably someone'll take it away JUST because i modded you up. I had 5 points, but loath using them because i feel, "What's the point when /. allows predators to take them away without outting nor requiring moderators to JUSTIFY their moderation, positive or negative."

But, as of ~1333 PST i gave you one point. Didn't want to reattempt and seem excessive, but wanted to get the ball rolling for you.

Justification: TOO MANY SUBMISSIONS HAVE SLANTED/JINGOISTIC/ANTAGONISTIC/WANNABE-JOURNALIST opinions about a story, or are thinly-veiled attempts to incite readers to jump on a story.

The moderation system

[Daengbo]

The moderation system has faults, but I still feel that it is what sets Slashdot apart from other sites like Digg, which has a more democratic moderation system, and ZDNet and blogs, which have no moderation to speak of. Somehow the conversations on Slashdot are raised a very few inches above the sewer run-off of the Internet at large (though not if you browse at -1 like I do).

I would prefer that the moderation have a "reason" text field of a hundred characters or so which would be viewable on meta-moderati