posted by Michael on Tue 18th Mar 2008 12:30
Title says it all really. It seems daft that the people most interested in a particular story are actively prevented from moderating it. What's more, I can mod comments until I comment myself. So should I make sure I've got all my moderating done before I comment? What this does is accentuate the existing problem of "the earlier you comment, the higher you will be modded". I come back to see if there are any more comments in a thread I commented on, and find there are but I can only reply to them - I can't mod them up. So all the people down the bottom of the page are at their initial score, because the only people who are reading those comments can't mod them.
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The thing is, it's also silly for mod ups and mod downs to have different rules:
3 Apples - 2 Oranges = 1?
So allowing mod ups by thread participants, but not mod downs is a no go.
I say just turn the system loose and let people make of it what they will. In the end, it's a popularity contest. And it really doesn't do any good to pretend that it's not. Or that just the right set of restrictions will make it something else. Proclaim loudly that it's a popularity contest and let it be just that.