Slashdesperation?

[vakkotaur]

I've had a Slashdot user ID for a few years. Okkay, more than a few years. I'm actually using a second ID, I think, as I forgot about an earlier one. No big deal. I don't need a low ID number to show off. Since I registered, I marked myself as 'Willing to moderate' not so much to actually moderate, but because that way I can meta-moderate (for anyone wondering, it's a rating of other's moderations, intended to limit abusive moderation). For a while it was no big deal. Every great once in a while I had have the usual 5 moderation points available and could use them or let them lapse.

It's no longer every once in a while. It's gotten downright silly. I seemed to be getting mod points weekly for a while. Sometime I'd let them lapse, sometimes I'd find some article interesting enough to read the comments of, but interesting enough to post comments to and burn through the points. Today it got Very Silly Indeed. I got tired of the "You have 5 Moderator Points! Use 'em or lose 'em!" message, found an article of interest, and burned through the points. And also did the meta-moderation so there was no message leading the page content. I just looked at Slashdot again. What do I see? "You have 5 Moderator Points! Use 'em or lose 'em!" How bad does Slashdot need moderators if I can burn through 10 mod points in one day? I haven't done that - yet. But I could. I'm almost tempted to try and see if get another 5 mod points later tonight, but I'm just not bored enough for that to be an interesting exercise.