You are right, this will be just as abused just like the current moderation system by shills.
I really would like a user preference that lets me block users greater than a certain UID. This is because there are very few genuine users over a certain ID.
There are very few interesting posters over the 2M UID mark... but there are some. There are now over half a million accounts in that range, so it would be a bit surprising if none of them ever said anything interesting. That said, there are probably a lot of patterns that you can watch for to spot mod abuse. For example:
Don't allow (silently drop) moderations by one account of another from the same IP address
Look for clusters of accounts that each moderate the others up (or down). Even when this isn't abuse, it just generates an echo chamber. Reduce the probability of these accounts getting mod points.
Or you could just bring back the old metamod system. You know, the one that actually worked, where anyone in the oldest 90% of accounts could do it, but had no control over the posts that they metamoderated.
I'm a poster over the 2M UID. For years I ONLY used Anonymous Coward as I'm a privacy geek. I changed when I realized that my entire life is already online: anybody researching me can find out which buildings I bought, which companies I've been an officer in, corporate newsletters in which I've been mentioned (hence knowing where I've worked) and many other things.
So, last year, during the SOPA nonsense I decided to start get another account. (I had an account yrs ago and never used it and didn't hav
While money can't buy happiness, it certainly lets you choose your own
form of misery.
Comment abuse reporting? WTF? (Score:1)
*Sigh*.
So, that's how it's gonna be no that CmdrTaco is gone.
From my heart - to whomever the moron who made this decision was: FUCK YOU.
Shill problem (Score:2)
You are right, this will be just as abused just like the current moderation system by shills.
I really would like a user preference that lets me block users greater than a certain UID. This is because there are very few genuine users over a certain ID.
Anyone with me? How do we slow down the shills?
Re:Shill problem (Score:5, Insightful)
There are very few interesting posters over the 2M UID mark... but there are some. There are now over half a million accounts in that range, so it would be a bit surprising if none of them ever said anything interesting. That said, there are probably a lot of patterns that you can watch for to spot mod abuse. For example:
Or you could just bring back the old metamod system. You know, the one that actually worked, where anyone in the oldest 90% of accounts could do it, but had no control over the posts that they metamoderated.
Re: (Score:1)
So, last year, during the SOPA nonsense I decided to start get another account. (I had an account yrs ago and never used it and didn't hav