Journal syousef's Journal: Slashdot moderation is awful 5
I am sick and tired of slashdot moderation. The fiction that "it sorts itself out" or "most people do the right thing" is laughable. Yet I've seen such drivel modded +5:Insightful while the original gripe is modded -1:Flamebait. or -1:Offtopic (How one is insightful while the other is offtopic is baffling) Way to be a welcoming mature, open minded, community.
Just write one post that a group of fanboys or zealots doesn't like and watch it get modded into oblivion, usually after yo-yoing. People who waste their time on such childish vendettas as coming back days later to mod something down simply because they don't like what's being said are immature fools. People who hold a grudge and then repeatedly mod down anything by the person who's offended them with - shock horror - valid criticism, and downright pathetic. Getting your mates to mod someone down because you don't like it smacks of mass stupidity.
-1:Flamebait does not mean "I don't agree". It means you believe the person who made the comment made it purely to be inflamatory rather than to make a genuine point. -1:Offtopic means the post is off topic, but is regularly applied to on topic posts. -1:Overrated is as close to "I do not agree" as we have but is so vague it should be banned. If someone wants to say they don't like a company or or product or practice they should be allowed to do so, even if you like it, and even if it's your favourite company. Apple, Google, Mozilla/Firefox are not immune to criticism and have all made some very questionable choices. On a mature forum you'd be able to discuss such things without being modded into oblivion.
Slashdot moderation is badly broken and lately the place seems to have been taken over by immature and unsavoury types.
The only way I can see to fix it is to display ALL moderation (uncapped), not just a summary. Show the +12 insightful posts as well as the -4: Offtopic. When you cap it at -5 idiots come back 3 days later and mod things down.
Came here from your sig (Score:1)
Where is M2? I haven't seen it on the front page in forever. I get mod points twice a week but no meta-mod invites, and going to the meta-mod page without an invite just gives me parts of the Firehose. Meh. Slashdot sucks compared to ten years ago (I mean, there were always idiots and trolls, but they seem to have taken over the sanitarium).
Oh, and I found this comment [slashdot.org] quite amusing, if a little vitriolic.
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M2 is broken. It's there, but unusable when I'm at work, and doesn't matter any more anyway. The old M2 modded moderations, the new one you just remoderate old comments, some of which weren't even moderated to begin with. It's not worth bothering with any more.
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