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Object Lesson in Non-Transparency At Energy.gov

Posted by timothy on from the but-it's-a-dry-heat-death dept.

Harperdog writes "Dawn Stover recounts her attempts to access information at energy.gov, the U.S. Energy Department's 'cutting-edge, interactive information platform,' which apparently isn't any of those things. Especially frustrating were her attempts to locate important documents related to the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository. An interesting read for anyone interested in true government transparency."

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  1. Re:The Slashdot troll post investigation by PeterM+from+Berkeley · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Funny, as a moderator I do pretty much exactly the opposite of everything you said moderators do, with one exception:

    I do NOT, generally, like to engage in "moderation fights" where I mod down what someone has modded up, or vice versa, except in really egregious cases of mis-moderation.

    I rarely mod down.

    I like to mod posts that haven't been modded already, to lift up interesting/deserving posts so that they can be seen.

    I'm not a stickler on modding down off-topic posts, but I will in really egregious cases.

    I would say 80% of my mods are used for "+1 interesting", another 15% are "+1 insightful", and all others are 5% or less.

    Of course, my karma is also very high, and not mostly because of my own comments.

    --PM