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Facebook Blocks Users From Mentioning BugMeNot.com
ThinkingInBinary writes "The other day, I was trying to mention bugmenot.com in my Facebook status, and I discovered to my horror that Facebook blocks the phrase 'bugmenot.com' as "abusive" in status updates, messages, and presumably any other communications on the site. Facebook isn't even listed on BugMeNot, as they requested that logins for Facebook be blocked. This is pretty ridiculous, as I can't even send my friends a message mentioning bugmenot.com!"
... freedom of speech doubly so.
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Anytime I meta comment on moderation I get sent to karma hell.
I wasn't talking about commenting on moderating. There's a thing called metamoderation where you moderate the moderators. They give you a list of ten random comments that have been moderated, and you moderate the moderation as "fair" or "unfair". Comments modded "Funny" you metamoderate as "funny" or "unfunny". Allegedly, if you metamoderate a mod as "unfair" the moderator won't get any more mod points for a while.
I usually metamoderate daily, sometimes twice. Most mods I see are fair; most of the ones I mark as "unfair" were modded "troll" or "flamebait" because some idiot disagreed with the comment (often I disagree with the downmodded comment yet still downmod the moderator). From what I've seen in others' journals, I'm pretty typical of slashdot metamoderators.
Today I've been modded 4, Funny 2, Insightful 4, Informative 0, Redundant (it was a good mod; I basically said something along the lines of "I agree with you) 4, Interesting 2, Informative and 2, Interesting.
The best way to get karma is be polite, be informative, know what you're talking about (or ask intelligent questions), get stories posted to the front page, and I suspect in my case the journals about hookers and booze help some.
mcgrew's razor: Never attribute to stupidity that which can be explained by greedy self-interest