I honestly wish there was a moderation system like Slashdot. You got a limited number of points each week, and you could vote comments “Insightful, Informative, Funny, Overrated, Spam” etc. Comments, etc could go up to +5 or down to -1; and you get a slider to determine at what point value comments are hidden at (+4, +2, etc)
It makes it so people can’t be buried into the ether by brigading (they’d have to keep up a sustained downvote campaign to continually knock it down to -1), and can ‘come back from the dead’ so-to-speak, and also allows categorization of comments and may even allow the filtering of joke-comments so that conversations stay on topic or just so that you engage with the serious content instead of low-quality stuff. This encourages people to comment more genuinely and productively.
That’s really interesting, but honestly I think I like the simplicity of upvote/downvote better. It seems like it would take a bit of tuning to get the Slashdot system to work as intended.
Well, the simplicity of the upvote/downvote buttons are what also cause the drawbacks of people using the system as “Agree” and “Disagree” buttons. I’m a solutions oriented guy. Everyone always bitches and moans over what the problem is, and nobody ever suggests solutions.
I honestly wish there was a moderation system like Slashdot. You got a limited number of points each week, and you could vote comments “Insightful, Informative, Funny, Overrated, Spam” etc. Comments, etc could go up to +5 or down to -1; and you get a slider to determine at what point value comments are hidden at (+4, +2, etc)
It makes it so people can’t be buried into the ether by brigading (they’d have to keep up a sustained downvote campaign to continually knock it down to -1), and can ‘come back from the dead’ so-to-speak, and also allows categorization of comments and may even allow the filtering of joke-comments so that conversations stay on topic or just so that you engage with the serious content instead of low-quality stuff. This encourages people to comment more genuinely and productively.
That’s really interesting, but honestly I think I like the simplicity of upvote/downvote better. It seems like it would take a bit of tuning to get the Slashdot system to work as intended.
Well, the simplicity of the upvote/downvote buttons are what also cause the drawbacks of people using the system as “Agree” and “Disagree” buttons. I’m a solutions oriented guy. Everyone always bitches and moans over what the problem is, and nobody ever suggests solutions.