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Why don you give moderators unlimited moderator access to 5 stories instead of giving them just 5 points?

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Why don you give moderators unlimited moderator access to 5 stories instead of giving them just 5 points?

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It’s a good question. Moderators’ primary complaint is that they are often crippled by the tiny amount of points they have, and the overwhelming amount of comments that need moderation. If a good moderator could moderate all the comments in a given story, certainly that would be a great improvement. The problem is that a single bad moderator could wreak havoc across those same 5 stories. By limiting the number of moderation points to 5, any single moderator can only do so much damage. Sure they can only do so much *good* too, but that’s the trade-off. I’d rather see a hundred comments unmoderated than see a hundred comments moderated badly by some jerk with an axe to grind.

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