Journal Journal: FIRST POST!!!!!!11!!!!11!!!1!!!1
Why hello journal and anyone who randomly reads this junk! I'm gonna randomly kick off my journalness with this email I sent to CmdrTaco:
"Hi. I just recently got myself some moderation points for the first time. Being the good little Slashdotter that I am, I read the M1 (told you I read it!) FAQ. It didn't tell me much I didn't know, but was useful in putting emphasis on particular aspects of comments that I should focus on. After I'd moderated, this question in particular struck me as a problem:
'Lots of early posts that "seem" to be informative/insightful and get mod-ed up when they really shouldn't be. If the author sounds confident, people seem to just give him points. By the time an actual informative post makes it in, it's too late to go back. How could you accommodate this in the moderation system?'
The answer in the FAQ doesn't offer any solution to this problem. As a reader this problem had occurred to me before, but I never really thought about it that much. As a moderator I thought about it a little more from a different point of view, and I have an idea.
Have you ever attempted forced comment views for moderators? For example, forcing M1ers to view comments arranged by date instead of rating. Thus the moderators would be forced (in theory) to read at least at least a few lowly scored posts. I think this would be best accomplished by creating different M1 classes. In this scheme you'd divvy up the M1ers and give them each a more narrowly focused goal than to simply weed out the bad stuff. You could have X% of moderators be assigned to modding up new posts. For this group you'd change their comment layout format to view posts by date and maybe limit the use of their moderation points to posts created within the last Y hours. Another group of modders could be given the task of only moderating replies. Again, their comment layout format would be changed accordingly (threaded maybe?) and their modding rights would be limited to replies. I'm sure plenty of groups would come up after a little brainstorming. Another that just came to mind is a sort of deity\übermodder class for M1ers favored by M2ers.
Speaking of M2ers, you could apply a similar formula to them also. Some could M2 only funny moderations, some only flamebaits and offtopics. Perhaps some metamoderators could be assigned to a particular moderator (randomly I guess) and just M2 his M1s.
Anyway, that idea was 90% developed during the process of writing this email, so I'm sure you guys could turn it into something useful. I hope I've been helpful in some way.
-Yoweigh
Any comments about my modding ideas? Fork 'em over!
