Re:Tell HN: A Recent Rise in Downvoting
by anonymous236 on Sunday October 17, 2010 @11:09AM
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As of two-three years ago Slashdot moderation guaranteed that "In Soviet Russia" jokes were always +5 Funny, anything with Linux in it were +5 Interesting and a post with a Beowulf cluster plug was both Funny and Informative.
Meta-moderation was supposed to cure that, but it didn't make much difference. So, no, overall it did not work. Submissions were good, but discussions sucked.
Judging from your nick here, and slashdot allowing anonymous comments, I'm guessing you didn't have a user account on slashdot. I say that because you had to do was give 'funny' posts a -10, which would preclude you from seeing so-called funny posts. Though far from perfect, still consider the /. moderation system the gold standard for commenting and have yet to see anything come close. (Also, +1 funny mod got you no karma)
Re:Tell HN: A Recent Rise in Downvoting
by anonymous236 on Sunday October 17, 2010 @12:59PM
(#1800781)
Slashdot ID 3xxxxx, first post - Sep '01... but thanks for the info ;)
I have a four digit Slashdot UID. Those features didn't exist in the beginning. I have mine set to default settings, with "show only posts with a score of 5" on.
Tends to keep out most of the usual Slashdot bullshit without requiring me to take Slashdot out of my RSS reader altogether.
In my opinion there was a time when Slashdot coped quite well with their randomly assigned mod points and metamoderation. Then their UI became unusable, so I cannot tell how it works now.