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Re:Like Peter Thiel, Tech Workers Feel Alienated by Silicon ... by eadmund on Sunday February 18, 2018 @04:24PM (#16408781)
> I think I can do an OK job of not being an asshole, but I honestly have no idea what is or isn't going to piss people off or classify as flamebait here.

I wish that there were some sort of metamoderation system. I downvote the mods whenever they post about abusing their power, but I don't know if that even has an effect, or if moderators' posts are immune from downvotes.

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Re:Like Peter Thiel, Tech Workers Feel Alienated by Silicon ... by owyn on Sunday February 18, 2018 @10:20PM (#16410523)
slashdot had that years (decades?) ago. For such a wild west porto-reddit type of site, it really did have some good tools to manage trolling. Moderation flags have a "type" (funny, troll, redundant, offtopic, etc). There's also a meta-moderation system where random users got picked to see some random posts and judge whether the first level of moderation is fair.

It's been around a long time, but I guess it's a bit fiddly? I'm not sure why other sites haven't adopted similar processes.

https://slashdot.org/faq#meta1

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Re:Like Peter Thiel, Tech Workers Feel Alienated by Silicon ... by mrep on Sunday February 18, 2018 @04:32PM (#16408833)
Wasn't this the point of flagging/vouching for comments?
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Re:Like Peter Thiel, Tech Workers Feel Alienated by Silicon ... by eadmund on Monday February 19, 2018 @09:20AM (#16413002)
Hmmm, I hadn't thought of flagging the moderators. I wonder if that might have negative repercussions. I wouldn't want them to get angry!
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