[syntern]

Why do you think that the "king for a day" won't be abused either?

[Dylan16807]

Folks who are granted moderation say don't get to keep it long enough to get used to it, and learn how to abuse it.

[commandar]

I've said this before, but it's always funny to me how many proposed fixes end up sounding a lot like /.'s metamoderation system.

Slashdot was far from perfect, but I still think the system of temporary moderators followed up by temporary metamoderators is pretty elegant compared to most of the alternatives I've seen.

[sameerds]

Slashdot was ... ???