Slashdot's Disagree Mail 202
On Wed Sept 6, 2006 ********* wrote:
"I can't help but notice the huge amount of trolls posting comments the past few days. I know you guys work hard to keep them down but it's a losing battle. You should make people post comments in groups to get rid of the trolls. Everyone would have a "comment buddy" that has to agree that your comment is worth posting. You could make it part of the preview process. This way trolls wouldn't be able to post because nobody else would mark their comment as worth posting. Maybe if two trolls got together they would be able to defeat the "buddy" process but that seems unlikely to me as I don't think they work in groups do they? Maybe this isn't as good an idea as I think for working against large groups but it might work for lone trolls."
I love the idea of a comment buddy. It reminds me of "Posture Pals" from the famous MST3K short. The next mail comes from a lady who doesn't mind clicking on things, in fact she loves it. If she had her way, everyone would have carpal tunnel syndrome.
On Mon May 7, 2007 ******* wrote
"Instead of a confusing bunch of numbers and some adjectives that don't mean anything why not just have a list of everyone who has posted a comment that a user can go through. That way you could click on a name and then click on their comments until you decided if you liked what they had to say. You could then click on them again and click on a ACCEPT COMMENTS link. Then you could click on them again and let them know that you like what they write so they will probably like what you write. That way it would save some clicking. After a bit you will have clicked on enough people that you could see a dozen or so comments in a story because you can't read much more than that anywy. You'd just have to click on a dozen people for a dozen or so stories and you will have your own little community with only the people who were worth clicking on. Just a thought."
Finally we have someone who thinks speech should cost something. In this case, a nominal fee on an upsliding scale.
On Fri Jan 5, 2007 ******* wrote:
"I have a suggestion to help solve the flame problem you seem to have here. It's simple and will make you enough money that you can get rid of ads. You charge 1 cent for the first 2 comments in a day 3-10 comments cost 5 cents and anything over 10 comments cost 25 cents (nobody but flamers post more than 10 times in a day). People would probably complain at first but they'd get used to it just like I'm sure people complained about stamps but accept it now. I don't think people would be willing to flame if it cost a couple $. keep up the good work."
Re:Ditch under/overrated as mods (Score:3, Interesting)
Make it tastier (Score:5, Interesting)
Since when does Overrated not affect karma? (Score:3, Interesting)
"Over and under rated also don't affect a person's karma."
Since when? Or do I just not see the effect of a modreasons change because I've had this account pegged at Excellent for years? (Slashdot has changed the modreasons from Slash's preset "slashcode/slash/plugins/Moderation/mysql_dump.sql"; for one thing, Funny differs.)
Re:costly words (Score:5, Interesting)
I think you should be tired of suggestions about the mod system, but anyway....
About each six/twelve months I read a comment that compulsively deserves to be modded (and nobody cared.) I think you may provide anyone (or maybe anyone who ever cared to mod) with a single extra *persistent* and non-renewable mod point... call it your semestral "gold mod point", just for those cases of flagrant urgency. This also may avoid the redundant (and ubiquitous) sentence "If I had mod points!..."
Huh?! (Score:4, Interesting)
Slashdot has one of the best discussion systems there is.
I say again, huh?