There used to be a huge number of us local web users who spent a great deal of time on Muti and these days it’s started to slip in a big way with lots of posts that are irrelevant and far too many self submissions about nonsense/advertising.
I used to read Muti daily, and it was very rare for me not to read a post that hit the Hot section – I know that the Web AddiCT(s); did too, amongst a lot of other local peeps.
Recently I’ve been spending more time on Muti burning away my moderation points to get some of the nonsense out because I still see Muti as a great place to be able to find some fantastic reading material in the local sphere. I must admit that moderation points are great, but I don’t get too many and I’m not a fan that people can see who moderated the post, but it’s better than nothing and now I want to challenge all the old regulars to spend a little more attention to the site, why don’t we try and get it back to what it was?
Some things that I think need attention:
- More moderation points to people who are moderating a lot and weaning out the rubbish.
- The site hangs too often, when I submit or moderate, the site will just freeze and I’ll have to refresh which sometimes fixes this, it’s a big annoying and puts me off.
- There are a lot of people submitting spam, which is hard for a system to pick up as spam, this needs attention.
- Self submission with team voting – I’ve watched carefully and have noticed several parties that are submitting their own content and getting a team of people (employees) to quickly vote the post up, this is not doing the system justice.
All in all, I think Muti is a great system and I really want to see it operating positively again – let’s make it happen!
Hi Chris
Thanks for your call to action! Its also much appreciated that you have been moderating of late. Here’s a couple of things that are/will happen immediately:
1) You should see a *lot* less ‘soft spam’ with immediate effect, as in fact just yesterday a new much more aggressive spam filter was deployed.
2) To aid moderating, everyone will immediately be granted some mod points.
3) The Mod point algorithm will be changed to award points more generously. (within next day or so)
As regards the server slowness, definitely Muti is cracking at the seems on the Linode it runs on right now. There are some plans to move it in the near future. We are always looking for host sponsors but in the event we do not get one we will either move to Heztner or Huricane Electric and be on a full dedicated server in the next few weeks.
Regards
Sounds really good, it’s time to get rid of some of the abusers – Is there any way you can hide who moderates a specific submission? I sometimes don’t want to moderate as people are strange and the next minute I have an enemy?
I think Muti is an awesome system which really drives local bloggers as it pushes traffic, but only pushes traffic to decent content! I look forward to seeing these improvements :)
Ye, I think if everyone can submit good news and moderate rubbish posts, we’ll see the system turning around and reverting back to its powerful self!