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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2005-04-01
No it's not.
Everyone listen closely, because this is the final word: the purpose of the mod system is only to do one thing: remove crap comments so that they aren't part of the normal flow of conversation.
This mod system accomplishes that goal easily. No one user not being able to moderate changes that.
People have complained about moderation since the first site that used it existed, but our goals are met with the current system.