Slashdot Meta-moderation

Created: 2024-01-22T04:59:16-06:00

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Who moderates?

• Moderation is handed out like jury duty; a random set of people for a [short] amount of time.
• Meta-moderators must be from the oldest 92.5% of the account database.

Moderation

Purpose of up/down voting

Voting is to separate genuine discussion from trolls, spam, and other kinds of attack posts.

Disagreeing with a comment is not grounds to downvote it.

Classifying a normal post

Normal: This is a normal post.

Off topic: This post has nothing to do with the OP.

Flamebait: This post is intentionally trying to inflame people or start an argument.

Troll: This post is intentionally trying to confuse people.

Redundant: This post offers nothing new; its contents are already covered by earlier comments or the OP.

Insightful: This comment adds something interesting to the discussion. For example a story about a tool might have insightful comments about uncommon uses for it.

Interesting: This comment is interesting (moderator's opinion.)

Informative: This comment adds additional context to the OP.

Funny: The comment is amusing (moderator's opinion.)

Overrated: The moderator believes the post has unfairly received a lot of up-votes.

Underrated: The moderator believes the post has unfairly received a lot of down-votes.

When a post is classified

A copy of the action is sent to the meta-moderation queue.

Meta-moderation

• M1: moderator action
• M2: meta-moderator action
• M1 decisions show the post and judgement that was applied to the post.
• M2 decisions judge if an M1 decision was "fair" or "unfair."