Please Bring Back Our Downvotes: Society Desperately Needs It

Re:Please Bring Back Our Downvotes: Society Desperately Need... by nemo44x on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @04:21PM (#27989223)

I think it was the best system. Importantly - not having the power to moderate all the time. You were given a certain amount of moderation points at random times so you felt like you had to use them wisely. This prevents a site from being consumed by the same active up/down voters which creates an echo chamber.

And yes, moderating the moderators was a decent idea too.

I'd also support a system of moderation where you don't get to necessarily moderate whichever comments you want but rather are given moderation points and maybe a few comments within a topic are sent your way and it's you moderate those. This would prevent users from deliberately seeking out other users or topics to +/-.

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Re:Please Bring Back Our Downvotes: Society Desperately Need... by spiralx on Friday July 30, 2021 @07:49AM (#28006947)

The top 10% of active users were actually prevented from getting moderation points at all, which helped prevent those users dominating the site. If you browsed /. a couple of times a week and read a few articles each time you'd likely get mod points each week, whereas I never once got them in a decade of reading the site because I was on there all the time.

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