The moderation system seemed well designed, especially the meta-moderation idea, but I stopped bothering with Slashdot years ago because it didn’t seem to be working. Specifically, too many useless or trivially incorrect comments were modded up to +5, so that the moderation system was almost useless in helping you find worthwhile comments. This was because the moderators were simply too gullible, modding up absurdly wrong and useless comments whose authors had figured out how to mimic an authoritative voice.
EDIT: [because the above might seem vague]. I’m not talking about opinions that I found worthless because I disagreed with them. I’m talking about 500-word essays about how red speaker wires give you better stereo separation because of quantum mechanics, modded up to +5. That kind of thing.
i've seem the same comments here. only difference is that here it would have a source link pointing to a TEDx video.
Slashdot also allows you to mark the few people that make those (and political) comments that are often upvoted as friend or foe. That is the ultimate fix if scrolling past one or another comment bothers you. I personally only Friend people there to bump their comments, as i find scrolling past the bad one easier.
EDIT: [because the above might seem vague]. I’m not talking about opinions that I found worthless because I disagreed with them. I’m talking about 500-word essays about how red speaker wires give you better stereo separation because of quantum mechanics, modded up to +5. That kind of thing.