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#1 2012-07-03 19:40:41
Comment Wars
It needs to stop. It promotes spamming, and giving love-its to people for spamming on someone else's project is simply wrong.
One of these times someone is a) Going to take it the wrong way, b) You might be banned, and c) it just creates a big mess.
People, you need to set good examples. On Scratch, monkey see, monkey do.
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#2 2012-07-03 19:42:42
- TorbyFork234
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Re: Comment Wars
What are you talking about?
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#3 2012-07-03 19:46:57
Re: Comment Wars
Some users write in their project notes
"I wil give you 2 love-its to write (insert something stupid here) on this user's project (Link to project)"
And then that user usually retaliates, and so a comment war is born.
And they usually get 10-20 users who follow the directions and post the spam.
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#4 2012-07-03 19:48:55
- TorbyFork234
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Re: Comment Wars
Why can't you just flag the project?
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#5 2012-07-03 19:50:37
- cheddargirl
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Re: Comment Wars
Yeah, I'm not a big fan of comment wars either. Especially when someone is being attacked in a comment war without knowing who instigated it.
The thing is, I think some people use it as an excuse to find a way to bring popularity to a project and/or inflate a project's views, which is often does but at the price of comment quality on the site. Sometimes other users see the comment, and they end up thinking that spamming is okay (especially if the viewer is a New Scratcher). It's not good.
Hmm.... perhaps someone could develop a project that discourages comment wars while encouraging constructive comments? 
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#6 2012-07-03 19:54:23
Re: Comment Wars
TorbyFork234 wrote:
Why can't you just flag the project?
Perhaps an example would suit you. I am not trying to call someone out, I am showing the effects. Here.
People see famous scratchers do this, and of course its all fun and games between them, but other users are beginning to copy them. I will try to flag them, but people need to realise its not correct behavior.
And as cheddargirl said, how will you know who started it? You cant flag it if you cant find it.
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#7 2012-07-04 16:53:46
- northmeister
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Re: Comment Wars
Here too. It must be really annoying for Astro...
cheddargirl wrote:
Hmm.... perhaps someone could develop a project that discourages comment wars while encouraging constructive comments?
That would be a good idea. Without telling the people who start comment wars directly, but by telling the community not to participate in a comment war.
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