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FWIW, my answer did receive many upvotes. But that is really the point of moderation: to flag or steer the process when something is popular but nevertheless no
by raganwald 16y ago
FWIW, my answer did receive many upvotes. But that is really the point of moderation: to flag or steer the process when something is popular but nevertheless not in the site's long-term best interests, just as it is my duty as a parent to moderate the amount of candy my children eat :-)
- kjksf 16y agoThe assumption you seem to be making is that moderation is perfect i.e. that a single moderator marking an answer as unhelpful means that it reflects some absolute, unified judgement of Quora and all other moderators. We all know that it's not how it works: there's a difference of opinions between moderators. Not all parents deny candy to their children and those that do have different quotas. So extrapolating from a single data point, like you did, is not really valid.