Victim of success: Vote moderation suspended
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We ... found a bug.
BlogShares members have been 'voting' blogs into categories ('Industries') and the backlog of votes awaiting approval had grown over the months to a daunting 60,000. A couple weeks ago we rolled out moderator incentives (chips) and today that queue hit zero. As a result, moderators got the same screenfuls of blogs repeatedly, and karma awards got screwy. I temporarily raised the karma level required to moderate to 10,000 so we can undo the junk votes and fix the moderation scripts. |
In the meantime, help improve the system (and gain some chips) by telling us what categories a blog belongs in. More on voting, courtesy the crack team over at the revived Unofficial BlogShares Strategy Blog.
Comments
You know, some days a guy just wants to rip out what remains of his already thinning hair!
I sat up one night, voting on blogs so that I could get to 25 Karma for moderation. Shortly thereafter, I find that I am at 20 -- and the level has been raised to 100.
Last night I sat and voted a bunch so that I could raise my Karma to 100. And I wake up this morning and find that the new level is 10,000!
Sjould I shoot for that number, or is it better that I vote sufficent blogs each day to reach 100,000 Karma by Saturday, given the pace at which the number is rising? :)
Posted by: ThePrecinctChair | August 2, 2004 07:04 AM
I wondered about that yesterday; I kept seeing some of the same ones over and over; and stopped voting. Hope you get it fixed soon. this whole voting thing has taken me to some interesting blogs!
Posted by: spacewriter | August 2, 2004 07:26 AM
I must have been lucky. I did a lot of voting and didn't see any duplicates. I usually just voted about two screens per session.
Posted by: Sage | August 2, 2004 12:00 PM
it will go down again so the precinctchair, dont worry!
Posted by: Charlie | August 2, 2004 11:50 PM
At the moment, no-one can moderate, so no-one's Karma is going anywhere until the bug is fixed.
In the meantime in anticipation of moderation coming back, get voting! Vote well and Karma will be your reward :)
Posted by: rutty | August 3, 2004 01:44 AM