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posted by mattie_p on Wednesday February 19 2014, @01:21PM   Printer-friendly
from the no-really-do-it dept.

By now, you have had the chance to read the updates of both NCommander and Barrabas. Nonetheless, you may still be wondering quite a few things about the site and its staff. Here is your chance to ask us anything. These questions can be general in nature, in which case the staff will select a spokesperson to answer it, or it may be specific to an individual. If the question is for an individual, please ensure you identify that person specifically enough.

We will select the best questions from the thread and provide answers to the community. These questions may not be the highest rated, although we will probably use those first.

In keeping with tradition, ask as many as you'd like, but please, one question per post.

 
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  • (Score: 1) by albert on Thursday February 20 2014, @01:39AM

    by albert (276) on Thursday February 20 2014, @01:39AM (#3205)

    Consider two posts. The first has no moderation. The second has 100 up mods and 101 down mods. I strongly think the second post is more interesting; people care about it. Most likely it is a well-argued post that expresses an opinion that some moderators are trying to suppress. For example, it could be of a political nature.

    The fix is asymmetric moderation. A simple and easy method would be to square the up mods. So 10 up with 10 down becomes 90. (10*10-10) You could use a fractional exponent, or you could raise one type of mod to an integer power that is slightly different than the other. For example, raise up mods to the 8th power and raise down mods to the 7th power.

    (originally posted in journal entry http://dev.soylentnews.org/comments.pl?sid=124&cid=218 0 [dev.soylentnews.org] where nobody saw it)