babbage's Journal: Moderation whining

Not that it's cool to whine about moderation, but what exactly was wrong with these two comments?

Someone was complaining in the Boston's Big Dig Finally Open thread about the lack of pedestrian access to the new Zakim Bridge, and seeing as I was lucky enough to have a chance to ask the project's chief engineer that exact question, I thought I might share what I learned. And yet an explanation as given to me straight from the horse's mouth, as it were, is "overrated", while someone complaining that the reason sounds like "bullshit" is left as is.

Moderate however you want, but I'm not a troll, and when I can't be funny, I do try to be constructive in the threads I participate in. This isn't the first time this has happened in the past month or two though -- maybe someone just doesn't like me or something. Oh well...

Modbombing

[Daengbo]

I get modbombed often because of the topics of my jounal, and it always comes in this form: Overmoderated. You are lucky that the moderator aparently only had 2 points left to waste on you. I routinely get five in a row.
Peace!

overrated should be subject to metamoderation

[alangmead]

Since the moderator marked your posts with "overrated", without other moderations to be "over" or "under" rated, its obvious that he or she was specifically trying getting judged via the meta-moderation system. In other words, he or she knew their actions wouldn't be viewed favorably by other random slashdot readers.

Perhaps the reason why "overrated" and "underrated" are exempt from meta-moderation should be re-examined. Or perhaps I don't understand the reasons for the exemption well enough. (Either the

fixed

[turg]

I just gave you an Insightful and an Informative. Hope that helps.

Re:fixed

[babbage]

Thanks :-)