Article comments seem borked for me

[Ganoncrotch]

TalonMan said:

RolStoppable said:

Some brief VGC history:

The thumb down feature was put in to allow the community to self-moderate spambots and blatant troll comments, but that was before a report button was implemented on the comments section of articles.

Self-moderation isn't necessary when it's easy to report issues to the mod team, so the thumb down functionality could be removed while thumb ups would still be allowed. In order to appease people who still see issues with fanboy voting, you could allow registered users to sort comments either by most liked or by oldest/latest. So three options that would be saved to profiles just like the filters for the game database.

I also don't mind keeping both the thumbs up & down ability, but strip out (or make it a user option) to "hide" posts based on ratings or whatnot. Most WordPress articles have a thumbs up & down - but they don't always implement logic to do anything with that rating...   ...so anyway, that's another option for dealing with this.

what could also work is users who constantly post nothing but trolling rubbish comments could learn why their comments are getting downvoted into oblivion.

Everyone is free to say what they want... but that doesn't mean people have to listen to absolute mouthfuls of garbage, and once 5 or more have suffered reading a trolling comment and downvoted it I'm happy with that comment wasting less peoples time in the world.

I was going to go find examples of downvoted comments to display such wastes of time but find that comments sections for me now look like this

which is nice!