These recent changes are a superb start. Things are really starting to look better around here!
Has there been any progress made on greater moderation transparency here? While something like Unicode support sounds hellish, especially if shitty and/or outdated technology like Perl and MySQL are involved, increasing the moderation transparency would likely just involve showing more data that should already be easily available.
At the very least the following should become public knowledge, easily accessible to
Knowing who modded a comment makes moderation worthless. If they do that, I'm out of here. You'll never get honest moderation when the moderator has to fear retaliation.
Exactly. I already get clusters of down-mods sometimes, from days past, after making a controversial post, like saying something positive about systemd.
Where's my UTF8? (Score:3)
Just kidding, I'm sure fixing slashcode for that is going to be a nightmare.
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Okay you know what, the changes around here--including responsiveness to user opinions--are getting really, really nice. Thank you.
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Greater moderation transparency? (Score:0, Insightful)
These recent changes are a superb start. Things are really starting to look better around here!
Has there been any progress made on greater moderation transparency here? While something like Unicode support sounds hellish, especially if shitty and/or outdated technology like Perl and MySQL are involved, increasing the moderation transparency would likely just involve showing more data that should already be easily available.
At the very least the following should become public knowledge, easily accessible to
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Re:Greater moderation transparency? (Score:3)
Knowing who modded a comment makes moderation worthless. If they do that, I'm out of here. You'll never get honest moderation when the moderator has to fear retaliation.
Exactly. I already get clusters of down-mods sometimes, from days past, after making a controversial post, like saying something positive about systemd.
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after making a controversial post, like saying something positive about systemd
You're a braver man than me. That's the slashdot equivalent of calling the Pope the Anti-Christ on the Vatican web site.
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Right, this isn't an anti-systemd website. Those are just jerks trolling.
More like, having a technical opinion on a technical website. If that requires "courage," that is absurd.
It does help the non-technical users to out themselves, though. ;)