On Slashdot, members can spend moderation points to elevate good
posts. The person asking to 'mod the parent up' is asking for a
moderator to add points to the thread's parent posting.
~mike
On Jan 14, 2010, at 3:50 PM, David McFarlane wrote:
> OK, this is not really the right place to ask this, and I am
> exposing some degree of tech illiteratacy, but can someone tell me
> what "mod parent up" means? I see this phrase from time to time on
> Slashdot, I have tried Google in vain, I still cannot make sense of
> it, and I feel I am missing out on the joke.
>
> TIA,
> -- dkm
>
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