What's amazing to me isn't that/. has carried on this long, but rather that the comment quality on here hasn't gone the way of most social new sites. It seems that in general as a social news site ages, matures, and grows, the comment quality follows an inverse pattern. Or more simply, as the number of users approaches infinity, the comment quality approaches 4chan. Digg used to be a decent site for discussion; now you'd be laughed at for even suggesting that the comments might be notable. Reddit is quickl
I used to get mod points all the time (once a week or so), then it suddenly stopped. My karma is still excellent, and I still have the option to turn off advertising. Is it waiting for me to turn ads off before it gives me my mod points again? Is it detecting adblock? Anyone have an explanation?
No... none of my moderations have been metamoderated. When you get metamodded down, your karma suffers. It seems that I've been purged from the moderation lists.
Funny thing is, I used to be able to mod until 2007. The only references I could find to a blacklist (rtbl flag purge) was way back in 2002. So there must be further blacklisting of mods going on. I just wonder what I did to get on the blacklist.
Age and quality. (Score:5, Insightful)
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High karma, but stopped getting mod points (Score:2)
I used to get mod points all the time (once a week or so), then it suddenly stopped. My karma is still excellent, and I still have the option to turn off advertising. Is it waiting for me to turn ads off before it gives me my mod points again? Is it detecting adblock? Anyone have an explanation?
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Isn't that what happens if you get ranked badly in metamoderation? I'm not going to RTFMMM just now.
Re:High karma, but stopped getting mod points (Score:2)
No... none of my moderations have been metamoderated. When you get metamodded down, your karma suffers. It seems that I've been purged from the moderation lists.
Funny thing is, I used to be able to mod until 2007. The only references I could find to a blacklist (rtbl flag purge) was way back in 2002. So there must be further blacklisting of mods going on. I just wonder what I did to get on the blacklist.