Board Thread:Administration/@comment-4832646-20140807195342/@comment-7843238-20140810110625

Sloshedtrain wrote:

Darkangel761 wrote: I am siding myself with the people who think that this rule should be enforced but to a smaller degree, should this measure be taken. I think any negative comments that don't provide reasons for their disliking of a story should be removed, but the comments that say "good work" or "9/10" should not be. My reason for this, is because even the vague comments such as the ones I mentioned are helpful in that they indicate to a writer that they are doing something right with a story, since the reader bothered to spend the time commenting that they liked it. However, I suppose on the other side of that argument, negative comments indicate that they are doing something wrong with the story. And therein lies the problem with this whole action that the admins are trying to take... They can't really efficiently take down all "pointless" comments by adding words into a filter, can they? And it is somewhat unfathombale that the admins can search through all the comment sections of all the pastas on this Wiki to try to find all the comments that they deem pointless. I don't advise this action being carried through, personally. Well these rules say that it is up to the admin's discretion when handling the penalty. I would give a warning to the user who posts pointless comments that first time around, second time will be a one day ban, and so on. The whole point of this is to encourage users to properly critique pasta and not just post "this sux". Which article comments have a tendency of doing. I understand that, but isn't that why we have the WW?