The last sentence is important, I was curious about the true impact of voting since I saw the most recent comment on a popular game being a shameless plug / spam advertising another game (probably their own or a friend’s game), totally unrelated to the genre of the game in question. It got several negative votes but without a StackExchange-like system to put it to the bottom (relatively lower score) and grey it out (negative total) it didn’t seem that useful.
So I’m okay to keep the comment votes specifically for these cases (and I suppose vote up could be useful too but on YouTube I found it to snowball short but funny comments to the top, leaving my longer, more analytical comment much lower, so this would have to be weighted).
Ideally, the final sorting could be configured:
- by author for all their games
- by author per game page
- by user in their global preferences (e.g. follow author’s decision or override it)
- by user on a specific game page (with buttons to switch between sorting by time, popularity or a mix of both)
In the meantime I’ll report the spam comment to make sure it’s deleted, but it’s still unclear in my mind who really gets reported by comment reports (I have myself never received such reports but I’d need to create a dummy account and report a comment to be 100% sure it works, since my own reports are probably not notified to me - and after reporting things on someone else’s page, I never saw a moderator reaching out asking me “hey is everything alright? Thanks for the report, we banned this user, it was a bot”) - but that’s another issue.