Saint Nobody's Journal: Overrated? WTF?

Here's something that's always annoyd me: people who moderate comments as "Overrated" or "Underrated." it's just a matter of not being able to come up with a decent reason to moderate something, and wanting to do it anyway. as far as i'm concerned, Overrated and Underrated should be banned as moderation categories.

Overrated, etc

[CatherineCornelius]

I see your point, but /. has a phenomenon where reasonable early posts tend to get modded up simply because of the number of eyes that are likely to see them--when I'm spending a lot of time on site, I've noticed that sometimes a flurry of +1 mods for posts of mine arrive within seconds of one another. Each moderator is probably acting independently and only sees my posting with a score of +1, but by the time they're done I am sitting there with +5.

And once or twice a posting of mine gets one -1 troll score. Whilst another reader might disagree with the troll interpretation, he might simply want to counteract the effect of it being modded down without thinking that it's so interesting.