[EricH]

Originally Posted by TimTheGreat

Why? If people upvote good comments and downvote bad (usually non-relevant comments that are far too common), wouldn't that help the madness of a thread such as the game hint one with >400 replies. People want to see game speculations that make sense. The best guess at this years game may be lost on page 15 somewhere...

If it was up to me, the game hint thread would be LOCKED and the key thrown away after the first 5 pages. Anything beyond that is redundant. Why? Keep reading.

The bigger problem, and here's where you're really going to get the pushback, is that most times there's redundancy/non-relevant comments, it's just someone who doesn't know the pulse of CD yet, just wants to make their voice heard, or has a simple question that's been answered before and doesn't know how to search (or doesn't want to bother reading a massive thread--which is where that massive game hint thread comes from, people want to get their speculation out and don't want to check and see if someone else had it. I corrected 2 different people with the same very wrong theory about 5-10 pages apart, and then someone else took the second of those another 5-10 pages later to correct a third person.). Put something like what you're proposing in place, and watch all those people just disappear. Why? Because they will get shoved down to the bottom. They won't get any answers.

I'd rather have to point out a rule 5 times to 5 different new people--and possibly be better able to help them out on other topics!--than to have those 5 people all see a "high-rated" thread and not get the rest of the help they might need easily.

Originally Posted by TimTheGreat

And comments like this would not be shown

What's wrong with that sort of comment?


CD is not just technical. Trust me. There've been discussions for YEARS about doing away with Chit-Chat and making the site more technical... and nothing's happened (and nothing's going to happen, I don't think) because it gives a more welcoming feel.