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Re:Wow! What a question to ask on Slashdot...Please forgive me for seeming dense,
Dense? No, it's a very large amount of information to sift through.
but could you tell me which section title this is under?
Under the title How did the moderation system develop? , scroll down to the smaller title Who, and below that, in the indented list, you'll find the following (all emphasis by italics is mine):
Regular Slashdot Readers The scripts track average accesses from each logged-in user. It then selects eligible users who read an average number of times. The homepage doesn't count either. It then picks users from the middle of the pack- no obsessive compulsive reloaders, and nobody who just happened to read an article this week.
This paragraph only mentions that the system checks how often you read, but I'm pretty sure several other factors are checked too. My guess is that a majority of users metamoderate only seldom, so if the scripts look for averages in that, three times a day is probably far from the average that they are looking for.
In a way this arrangement is unfair, because you have contributed a lot to Slashdot by metamoderating so much. But the moderation system isn't about fairness, it's only about keeping the site readable in spite of the massive crapflooding and trolling. (In fact from that point of view I find The World Forum and Kuro5hin much nicer and friendlier than Slashdot. (And both of them are well worth visiting for other reasons too!))
I think the periods when I get mod points most frequently on Slashdot are periods when I visit Slashdot maybe two to four times a week or so, reading only two or three articles-and-discussions on each visit, and metamoderate only once a fortnight or so. -- But that's only a very uncertain impression. I haven't kept track.
If you change your habits you'll probably need to allow several weeks to let the system get used to your new habits. Good luck. -
Discussing Wikinews storiesFor anyone interested, my site (The World Forum) has been officially cooperating with Wikinews to offer a place for people to discuss some of the stories posted there. If there is ever a story posted on Wikinews that you'd like to discuss, but it's not cross-posted to The World Forum yet, you can submit it yourself (word-for-word, it's allowed).
I posted a Wikinews story yesterday entitled "CIA Sending Suspects Overseas For 'Rendition'", which received almost 2000 hits due to being displayed on the front page of Google News for most of the day. This helps give Wikinews more readership, since they are not listed in Google News. Sadly, however, it does not result in increased discussion, since most people visiting from Google News are not people interested in posting comments.
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Discussing Wikinews storiesFor anyone interested, my site (The World Forum) has been officially cooperating with Wikinews to offer a place for people to discuss some of the stories posted there. If there is ever a story posted on Wikinews that you'd like to discuss, but it's not cross-posted to The World Forum yet, you can submit it yourself (word-for-word, it's allowed).
I posted a Wikinews story yesterday entitled "CIA Sending Suspects Overseas For 'Rendition'", which received almost 2000 hits due to being displayed on the front page of Google News for most of the day. This helps give Wikinews more readership, since they are not listed in Google News. Sadly, however, it does not result in increased discussion, since most people visiting from Google News are not people interested in posting comments.
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Washington is very surprised by N. Korea's pulloutI just finished posting this same story (but with more detail and more links) on my own site, The World Forum. Here's a blurb from it:
This probably come as a surprise to Washington, since Bush seemed to deliberately use a softer tone towards North Korea in his State of the Union address, saying only that Washington was "working closely with governments in Asia to convince North Korea to abandon its nuclear ambitions." That's buch better than three years ago when he branded North Korea part of the "axis of evil".
As a shameless self-plug, if you like to discuss stories like this, I urge you to sign up on The World Forum. It's goal is to become a major international forum where people from all walks of life and of all political perspectives can discuss politics and world issues, expressing their different points of view rationally and constructively. It's starting to get a lot of hits due to being prominently displayed in Google News, but it needs a much larger user base of people willing to participate in discussions if it is to succeed.Analysts in South Korea had predicted that the absence of harsh words would help restart the nuclear talks, since several weeks earlier North Korea had announced they were willing to return to six-party nuclear talks and would treat the United States as a friend if Washington would stop slandering their leader Kim Jong Il.
Further evidence that this came as a surprise to Washington came four hours before the official pullout statement, when a top Bush administration official told the New York Times that North Korea's return to the nuclear talks was expected by all other participants -- the United States, Japan, South Korea, Russia and China.
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Washington is very surprised by N. Korea's pulloutI just finished posting this same story (but with more detail and more links) on my own site, The World Forum. Here's a blurb from it:
This probably come as a surprise to Washington, since Bush seemed to deliberately use a softer tone towards North Korea in his State of the Union address, saying only that Washington was "working closely with governments in Asia to convince North Korea to abandon its nuclear ambitions." That's buch better than three years ago when he branded North Korea part of the "axis of evil".
As a shameless self-plug, if you like to discuss stories like this, I urge you to sign up on The World Forum. It's goal is to become a major international forum where people from all walks of life and of all political perspectives can discuss politics and world issues, expressing their different points of view rationally and constructively. It's starting to get a lot of hits due to being prominently displayed in Google News, but it needs a much larger user base of people willing to participate in discussions if it is to succeed.Analysts in South Korea had predicted that the absence of harsh words would help restart the nuclear talks, since several weeks earlier North Korea had announced they were willing to return to six-party nuclear talks and would treat the United States as a friend if Washington would stop slandering their leader Kim Jong Il.
Further evidence that this came as a surprise to Washington came four hours before the official pullout statement, when a top Bush administration official told the New York Times that North Korea's return to the nuclear talks was expected by all other participants -- the United States, Japan, South Korea, Russia and China.
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Washington is very surprised by N. Korea's pulloutI just finished posting this same story (but with more detail and more links) on my own site, The World Forum. Here's a blurb from it:
This probably come as a surprise to Washington, since Bush seemed to deliberately use a softer tone towards North Korea in his State of the Union address, saying only that Washington was "working closely with governments in Asia to convince North Korea to abandon its nuclear ambitions." That's buch better than three years ago when he branded North Korea part of the "axis of evil".
As a shameless self-plug, if you like to discuss stories like this, I urge you to sign up on The World Forum. It's goal is to become a major international forum where people from all walks of life and of all political perspectives can discuss politics and world issues, expressing their different points of view rationally and constructively. It's starting to get a lot of hits due to being prominently displayed in Google News, but it needs a much larger user base of people willing to participate in discussions if it is to succeed.Analysts in South Korea had predicted that the absence of harsh words would help restart the nuclear talks, since several weeks earlier North Korea had announced they were willing to return to six-party nuclear talks and would treat the United States as a friend if Washington would stop slandering their leader Kim Jong Il.
Further evidence that this came as a surprise to Washington came four hours before the official pullout statement, when a top Bush administration official told the New York Times that North Korea's return to the nuclear talks was expected by all other participants -- the United States, Japan, South Korea, Russia and China.
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Re:"Nothing for you to see here, please move along
You sound like you're trying to shape some kind of community out of this mess. That's something that was considered by many of the people with user id's an order of magnitude lower than yours and mine. It's really only gotten worse since I've come, I suggest you not worry about shaping this community, go with the flow, and take from it what you can get. If you're looking for communities that can still be saved, try something with less than tens of millions of members, maybe theworldforum.
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Another Article
I wrote a long story on this this morning and posted it on The World Forum. It contains a bunch of links to articles on this elsewhere, as well as links to articles on all the other claims by researchers to have found Atlantis, placing it in southern Spain, off the coast of Cuba, at the edge of the Celtic Shelf off the south-west coast of England, under the South China Sea, near the Azores Islands, in the Mid-Atlantic in the island chain known as the Azores, west of the Straits of Gibraltar on a submerged mud shoal now known as Spartel Island, in Bolivia's Lake Titicaca, Ireland itself, and more.