yerricde's Journal: How to Separate Ratings and Qualifiers in Moderation

In the Slashdot FAQ, CmdrTaco writes:

What about separating the rating (+1,-1) from the qualifier (off-topic, informative)? Often a post may be flamebait, but of excellent quality nevertheless.

While this may be true in some cases, its limited applicability doesn't justify complicating the moderators' user interface. Also, there's too much potential for abuse.

In effect, this has already been done. Each positive moderation has a corresponding negative moderation in the same spirit.

• Interesting - "Yeah, it's interesting, but it relates to the parent comment, rather than to the article, so I'll mod you down as Offtopic."
• Informative - "Yeah, it's informative, but somebody else posted a related point two seconds before you posted your comment, so I'll mod you down as Redundant."
• Insightful - "You mean Inciteful. -1, Flamebait."
• Funny - "It had me laughing out loud, but it's not politically correct. -1, Troll."
• Underrated - "No, I'd rather push this comment down with the page-widening posts and never be held responsible in metamoderation. -1, Overrated."

Here, you can discuss this or any other issue concering Slashdot itself.

Mod up not down

[gnugnugnu]

I follow the guideline Mod up not down.

In metamod i will decline to moderate Trolls that might be relevant, and try and only metamod totally offtopic blatantly abusive trolls.

I dont use redundant without looking at the context and try and see who posted first and how many times the point has been made.

A lot of what gives slashdot its character is that their are so many borderline Trolls that can and often are construed as just good fun.
I like kuro5hin but i find it somewhat antiseptic and humourless.
On the other hand adequacy.org is totally trolls but thats okay once you know what to expect and have fun with it.

Re:Mod up not down

[Art Tatum]

On the other hand adequacy.org is totally trolls but thats okay once you know what to expect and have fun with it.

Is that the story over there? I looked at that place for about 10 minutes and gave up because there was just too much oddity going on.

Re:"Inciteful" is not a word

[unitron]

As long as you have that dictionary handy, look up "pun".

Over/Under-rated

[Warped-Reality]

I don't like the overrated/underrated mod options - they can't be held accountable by metamoderation (and rightfully so, as over/under ratings are very subjective), and they can easily be used by people who don't like you to just mod you down for the sake of modding you down and not worry about metamoderaters reversing the decision.