The labels were insightful, interesting, informative, funny, overrated, underrated, redundant, troll, flamebait, offtopic, etc. Comments maxed out at +5. You co

The labels were insightful, interesting, informative, funny, overrated, underrated, redundant, troll, flamebait, offtopic, etc. Comments maxed out at +5. You could set a threshold so you'd only see +2 and higher, etc. At some point, you could adjust your personal measure for the categories of positive or negative moderation. e.g., threads turned into boring rushes to post memes for +1 Funny, so at one point I made Funny worth zero and Insightful worth +2. It was an interesting way to influence how a thread appeared for you. But around that time, I lost interest in the site and quit it for HN. You couldn't vote all the time (like on HN), but you periodically received 5 mod points to use, so you would tend to pick the most deserving to boost or demote. From memory, periodically, you might get meta-moderation points. Say, 10 chances to assess whether a post's moderation was fair or unfair. It was half-chore, half-interesting so it was often a happy distraction. More info for those with too much time on their hands: https://slashdot.org/moderation.shtml https://slashdot.org/faq/mod-metamod.shtml