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voodooray · 01-09-2008, 04:42 PM

Edit: Also Fanboys can be as idiotic as trolls and this could lead to major abuse of a comment rating system.

For example if Totp3 had this rating option it would be 100 pages of 'omg its amazing'. Lots of trolls made stupid comments but many people had very valid comments the fanboys would bury in no time. This would mean reading through the comments would be a fairly pointless excersise as it would be pretty much just 1 opinion voiced. Destroying the purpose of having comments in the first place. Thats the nightmare senario though.

Youtube using comment rating to a sweeping self regulatory function. They dont have the people to check all comments. If this is the case for wcm then fair enough but i see it as not a preference/advantage but rather a nessasity of larger comment traffic sites.

01-09-2008, 04:42 PM	#4
voodooray Hall of Fame member Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 10	Edit: Also Fanboys can be as idiotic as trolls and this could lead to major abuse of a comment rating system. For example if Totp3 had this rating option it would be 100 pages of 'omg its amazing'. Lots of trolls made stupid comments but many people had very valid comments the fanboys would bury in no time. This would mean reading through the comments would be a fairly pointless excersise as it would be pretty much just 1 opinion voiced. Destroying the purpose of having comments in the first place. Thats the nightmare senario though. Youtube using comment rating to a sweeping self regulatory function. They dont have the people to check all comments. If this is the case for wcm then fair enough but i see it as not a preference/advantage but rather a nessasity of larger comment traffic sites. Last edited by voodooray : 01-09-2008 at 05:05 PM. Reason: more thoughts