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Journal stephenbooth's Journal: Mod points musings 6

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I was chatting with one of my collegues who also uses slashdot today and mentioned that it's been months since I last had mod points. Prior to that I'd been getting mod points about once a week. He commented that he'd noticed the same thing with his usage. It's not like I haven't been posting or have but am getting frequently modded down, I'm posting a lot and often get modded up. The only cause I can see is that I started metamodding, I haven't had modpoints since then. At first I thought it might be a case of you can either mod or metamod, so I stopped metamodding, but still no mod points to be seen.

Stephen

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  • metamod (Score:2)

    by turg ( 19864 ) *
    I get mod points more often when I metamod. If I metamod more than once a day, then I get mod points at least once a week. Otherwise mod points are rare

    • I'll start metamodding whenever I get the chance then! The two things that put me off metamodding was that when I started coincided with not getting mod points any more and the fact that over half the modded posts that get offered up for metamodding are in threads about topics I know nothing about and have no desire to find out more.

      I wasn't aware you could metamod more than once a day. I'll have to pay more attention.

      Stephen

      • over half the modded posts that get offered up for metamodding are in threads about topics I know nothing about and have no desire to find out more.

        You don't need to know the topic or the context to metamod. Metamod is for catching abuses of the moderation system (e.g. modding up a goatse.cx post or modding down a genuine post), not a "second opinion." Usually, the only ones for which I'd want to know anything about the original discussion are "Redundant" mods. (and, in any case, you can skip them)

        I wa

        • There's been occasions where I've seen a comment modded 'Informative' when, because I happen to know the subject well, I know that it is infact plain wrong. If I see a post modded 'Informative' where I don't know the subject at all then for all I know it could be wrong and so that moderation would be unfair. At the moment I have to leave those unchanged and skip them. That's what I was trying to get at. Maybe I'm over thinking things.

          I mainly surf /. from work (it's actually a valid part of my job!) so

          • The issue of a post's correctness is not a matter for moderation. The appropriate response to incorrect information is to post a reply. Moderation is for addressing issues that can't be rectified as part of normal conversation.

            • So if someone has modded a post informative which is infact incorrect and it comes up as one for me to metamod I should not mark the moderating 'unfair'? I would still probably post a comment correcting the error.

              Maybe things have wandered off on a tangent a bit here. My comment about metamodding posts on subjects I am unfamiliar with refered to my own subjective comfort factor not some objective arguement against metamodding, it's off putting rather than being an insurmountable barrier. I try to avoid

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