A significant addition to Sankaku Complex’s commenting system has been made in the form of a full comment rating system; you can read a complete explanation below.
The system should be intuitive enough; clicking the plus button on a comment will vote up the comment, and clicking the minus icon will vote it down.
You need to be logged in to vote on comments – you can create an account here.
Unsurprisingly, each user may vote only once on a given comment, but you are free to vote on as many comments as you like.
Comments scores are displayed as a number from -1 (appalling) to 1 (great). Comments have to have a certain number of votes to have their score come into effect. Scores are not immediately updated on voting.
A “karma” system is a probable future addition, but at current all comments start at 0; anonymous comments have a slight malus to reflect the fact that anonymous users have an higher propensity to make abusive comments – otherwise they are treated identically.
Good comments are highlighted, bad comments are faded, and utter drivel is collapsed completely so as not to poison your eyes.
The options at the top of the comments section allow you to set a viewing threshold for comments – you can have only the worst comments collapsed (the default), or you can hide bad comments as well, show all comments irrespective of rating, or even display only top rated comments.
In all these cases, you can freely expand or collapse any comment by clicking the small ‘+’ in the upper right corner of the comment. You can still reply to comments irrespective of ratings.
Comments which are exceptionally abusive (chiefly spam or other extreme cases) can be reported with the “!” link, which will bring them to the attention of a moderator.
The natural tendency of many users when presented with such a system is to mercilessly vote down any opinions they disagree with, or any users they dislike.
Whilst this is an inevitable component of any voting system, it is hoped that most users will recognise the real power of such a system is in encouraging users to make insightful, informative or witty comments, with votes based on the merits of the comment and cast irrespective of who is making the comment or whether the sentiment they express is objectionable to the reader.
Should you have any additional comments or feedback, please do not hesitate to leave them below.
Netizens from various walks of life can’t be stop from visiting SanCom. It’s their rights anyway, but whether they are quality visitors or plain trolls, that’s another matter which touches on self-moderation. Sure, there’ll be memes such as “IT’S OVER 9000”, “Obvious troll is obvious” and “NICE BOAT”, non-Japanese (read: Western) references, religious crusaders’ and moralfags’ debates, hetero- and homosexuals’ plights, etc. But it is the congregation of these people from such vast extremes onto SanCom that makes this site special. As a matter of fact, I’ve learned a great deal from the comments here.
At first glance, the comment section seemed unnecessarily messier, but something’s gotta be done about the quality of comments and the surge of annoying, unworthy ones. Kudos to Artefact-san for taking the initiative.
One thing I notice which was previously pointed out is that some comments which make great sense if you put your mind around it, get voted down simply because they are disagreed by the greater majority. For example, PS3 vs. Xbox360, BOIN vs. pettanko, and moe-blobs vs. drama-cons. I pity them, actually. After all, it [i]is[/i] one of the shortcomings of democracy. The “Show all” option solves that, for now. I’ll stick to this until the best solution is implemented.
[i]I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it![/i]
BTW, [i]dozo yoroshiku[/i], former faceless Anons!
Interesting
Now if [In]Equality Now tries their dirty schemes again, their horrid cut+paste tactics will be easy to trace. Also, trolls will be averted. Great job, Artefact!
I like commenting anonymously
I hope this doesn’t discourage some anon who write tasteful and witty comment.You got my vote if you make me laugh, otherwise I’m not touching the rating button
If I could rate your comment up, I really would. Could you extend the same courtesy to me even without me having to resort to knock-knock jokes?