James A. C. Joyce's Journal: Are Moderators Dumber Than Posters?

On the whole, yes.

In the subthread I started with my "rebuttal" to its parent who just babbled.

So far there have been 8 responses, four or five of which are calling bullshit. The thing is, the moderators paid no notice. There have also been 8 moderations. How many called bullshit (i.e. gave me a downmod)? Two. That's 25% of moderators as opposed to ~60% of posters.

What's wrong with these people? Do they read my post, mod it up without reading further, then read the responses, and slap their foreheads in frustration? It seems so, considering that one of those who replied got modded up to +3, and another to +4.

I swear, as long as you sound earnest and meticulous, then if you don't insult anyone you just get modded up.

And I won't even get started on my blatant karma whoring repost which got modded up to +5. The article didn't even get Slashdotted!

For fuck's sake.