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Re: akademy2008 logo sucks.
by Sepp on Friday 14/Mar/2008, @04:20

I'm not a big fan of the Slashdot moderation system.
A few years ago I was reading Slashdot quite often, wrote comments and moderated from time to time. My feeling was that moderation was abused frequently, just because of different opinions. And I don't want to see the day, someone gets modded down on the Dot, just because he/she prefers GNOME.
The admins of Slashdot were aware of this issue and introduced "Metamoderation", which clearly shows that moderation has failed miserably.

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Re: akademy2008 logo sucks.
by sebas on Friday 14/Mar/2008, @07:10

For those that are not incredibly familiar with the Slashdot system, can you eplain shortly how metamoderation works?

All in all, it's certainly a trade-off. I wouldn't want to see those obvious trolls on top of the page, but of course moderation comes at a price. It just makes it harder to game the system, but not impossible.

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Re: akademy2008 logo sucks.
by Sepp on Friday 14/Mar/2008, @08:09

from http://slashdot.org/faq/metamod.shtml

"Metamoderation is a second layer of moderation. It seeks to address the issue of unfair moderators by letting "metamoderators" (any logged-in Slashdotter) "rate the rating" of ten randomly selected comment posts. The metamoderator decides if the moderator's rating was fair, unfair, or neither."

That's how they tried to get rid of unfair moderators. But I think there are not enough Dot-readers to make that work.

I think this whole system didn't perform well, since many posts got modded down, just because the moderator didn't agree with the point the poster made.

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