dknj's Journal: Why moderating on slashdot is a joke

This person posted this message a full day after my discussion ended. The problem is, his post was completely irrelevant and offtopic from my post. If a moderater saw it, he would probably mark it as informative. Someone tracking the thread would see it's offtopic and mark it as such. Two things happen after this. The first being the user who sees the post is ontopic about the article and doesn't realize it doesn't follow where the thread is going and starts complaining that "the parent shouldn't be modded as offtopic". The second happens during metamoderation. Everyone sees the single message and are asked if they think the moderation was fair. Anyone not following the thread will think offtopic is wrong and mark it unfair. What happens? The moderater who moderated the message as offtopic now loses karma (or whatever it has been replaced with). To get around reading such stupid posts, I will now start browsing at a minimum of +4 since this fucked up site won't do anything to solve this problem.

i see a problem

[Anonymous Coward]

Viewing at 4+ won't solve the problem. There are plenty of idiots that get modded up to such. Because of (lack of) quality of moderaters there will always be a significant number of "diamonds in the rough." Getting modded up means nothing on slashdot- it is harder to get to -1.