Banana wrote:Moderators would only step in if people are acting childish over it such as rating a post as a flame post just cause they dont like the person.
In the old rating we used to vote positive on posts that had been rated negative for no good reason so i dont see the problem.
Now mods can read minds and determine what people are thinking when they rate posts? From earlier in the thread, I saw that they are the final arbiters of what was right and correct (agree with them and be rewarded), but I didn't realize they are telepathic as well.
As for mods voting on posts, I'm assuming you mean mods were able to vote multiple times? I'll get back to that in the second to last paragraph.
Lairiodd wrote:
It is a reward for correctly betting how the mods would rate the post. This effectively increases the moderator coverage.
Or effectively institutes "Moderation based on a moderators (sic) personal judgement" which if the poll is to be believed, was only what 13.46% of those responding wanted.
My sense is that you'd like for the community as a whole to be self-moderating: for inappropriate posts to be given low ratings and for useful posts to be rated highly. As a goal, I think that is a good one. However, I really don't think this is the way to go about reaching it.
With the old system there was the illusion that ratings were something of a gauge of what the community thought of a particular post. I didn't realize that mods were fiddling with the ratings behind the scenes, rather than just casting a single vote like everyone else. As such, I don't think that makes sense, in the same way that I don't like the formalized notion that mods know best as to how a post should be rated which is embodied in the system that's just been rolled out. Having mods involved in post rating is moving in the direction of more moderation, while I think and the poll suggests that people want light moderation.
I think if you're going to have a ratings system (and at this point I'm not convinced it's a good thing) I think it should be a reflection of what the community thinks of a post or member, not what the mods think. Giving people the opportunity to rate a post is great. But then retaining mod control of the final rating disincentivizes people from voting as it undermines the notion that their rating matters.
Finolin