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MonsterDunk said:
Hate it. It doesn't scale too well and, in my experience, doesn't work well with a gaming audience. You get assholes (console fanboys) who gang together, create a bunch of alt accounts, and go around voting down anyone talking about the consoles they don't like. GameSpot was full of bullshit like that for a reeeeeal long time.

That's why Facebook doesn't have an "unlike" button. If we were to do something that resembled a voting system, it'd be like that. It'd only have an upvote, no downvote.
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The site seems to already track when you've finished watching a video for quests so maybe limiting comments to those who have done that would work. This would only have an effect if the first comment quest was removed and people were trained to report spam for comments that just say "Quick Look!" or "Always be Quick Looking!" for attention.

Maybe this ruins the entire point of comments, but as far as I'm aware the only person who actually cares about them is Brad, who always seems deeply involved in some crazy political discussion completely unrelated to the video being commented on.
 
Rapstah said:
The site seems to already track when you've finished watching a video for quests so maybe limiting comments to those who have done that would work. This would only have an effect if the first comment quest was removed and people were trained to report spam for comments that just say "Quick Look!" or "Always be Quick Looking!" for attention.

Maybe this ruins the entire point of comments, but as far as I'm aware the only person who actually cares about them is Brad, who always seems deeply involved in some crazy political discussion completely unrelated to the video being commented on.
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Come on, the "first" comments sure are idiotic, but honestly, they are not THAT annoying. It's definitely not a reason to delete comments or to take measures that prevent people from posting comments.
 
Bedlam said:
Come on, the "first" comments sure are idiotic, but honestly, they are not THAT annoying. It's definitely not a reason to delete comments or to take measures that prevent people from posting comments.
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They're a reason to delete specifically "first" comments and to take measures to prevent people from posting "first" comments. Ideally they are the only thing that's blocked through whatever measure is used. As is, the only way to view comments is forwards, in which case you need to browse through five to fifty "first" comments to get to actual comments on the video, or backwards, where you get all the discussions backwards. The backwards choice seems to stick between videos on your account though.
 
MonsterDunk said:
This was a holdover from Comic Vine, which sort of treated user accounts as a create-a-character sort of thing. So they had Good/Neutral/Evil. We just decided to plug in the video gaming equivalent and make neutral the most boring color possible so that only people who truly don't give a shit about petty things like platform preferences and forum colors would stick with gray.

Fun fact: For awhile now, most spam accounts (that is, accounts created by robots to post links to sites) have their account creation scripts set up to choose Nintendo.
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I wonder if they did that because it's the first radio button or because they wanted to choose Nintendo for other reasons?
 
CB3 said:
TNT: Max Payne 3

Really?
ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
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Ughhh... I really don't see how this could be interesting AT ALL. Especially considering that the game itself is nothing amazing, watching Ryan play it and die every 5sec for 90min will be terrible.
 
I'm still waiting for that Bionic Commando TNT... multiplayer is so fun, but there is literally no one else playing that online.
 
I predict this exchange during this TNT:

X: Ryan, did you ever finish Max Payne 3?
Ryan: Nuuh*, I played it a little on Easy for the story but the gameplay got so stale after a couple of hours I quit.

* This is Ryan's patented dismissive "no".
 
Rapstah said:
I predict this exchange during this TNT:

X: Ryan, did you ever finish Max Payne 3?
Ryan: Nuuh*, I played it a little on Easy for the story but the gameplay got so stale after a couple of hours I quit.

* This is Ryan's patented dismissive "no".
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Isn't Ryan the one who reviewed it? Or was that Jeff?
 
There is only one right answer for this week's TNT.

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It even has multiplayer! : D
 
What I still don't understand with TNT is why they never do pass and play. Why? Handing off a chat laptop is not a huge deal and I feel like it's a simple way to change it up enough to get the people in the room talking.
 
AcridMeat said:
What I still don't understand with TNT is why they never do pass and play. Why? Handing off a chat laptop is not a huge deal and I feel like it's a simple way to change it up enough to get the people in the room talking.
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They did do this last week with Shootmania. I think the current problem is Ryan can't talk and play at the same time.
 
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