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Did Gamespot just remove comments from all of their reviews?

Not sure about Gamespot, but for many reviews, the comments tend to start with crap like "PC version is best, suck gravel you console peasants"
 
Nanashrew said:
Lack of moderation is a big factor. So many people should get banned. Hell, the IGN comments during the whole Tomodachi Life thing and all those homophobic comments should have been purged but never was. No useful discussion is ever taking place in those comment sections, just name calling and an endless amount of slurs.
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So why do you read their comments? You could just not read the comments. You've already come to the conclusion that they aren't worth reading. I don't read the comments, or if I do, I read them in context; basically, I can stand back and have a laugh at the idiots. You know the sentiments are out there. Shutting off the comments just ignores the problem, it doesn't solve it.

I'm not arguing for FREE SPEECH EVERYWHERE DOWN WITH PERSONAL CENSORSHIP AGAINST ME but if Gamespot wanted to generate clicks off of children arguing whether Super Nintendo is better than Genesis and how much babbies like Nintendo games and come on Blast Processing, what do you lose by letting them and not reading the comments?

jediyoshi said:
Who are those people in this thread, did you mean people pointing out specifically comments on news articles and reviews?
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zephyrsan, Silky, BanGy.nz, Nanashrew, TheBryanJZX90. Most explicitly at least. The general sentiment has been wide elsewhere.
 
The best reviews on Amazon are for terrible products. Too bad the audience is not quite the same as on game media sites.
 
rpmurphy said:
The best reviews on Amazon are for terrible products. Too bad the audience is not quite the same as on game media sites.
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The most important reviews for popular products are 1-star ones

I don't know how in the hell all these people rated 5-stars to such a piece of ****

Then you go double-checking and it is indeed often a flawed product.
 
Obviously it's their site and they can do what they want, but I'm generally not a fan of the whole 'the majority of them are bad, so let's get rid of them all' mentality. Because really, we might as well stop producing anything based on that stance.

silvermember said:
I feel like that was meant to be snarky, which if it were isn't as clever as you think it is. Neogaf even on it's worst days are not as bad as other gaming site.
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I would say it's of comparable quality.
 
Storm Chamber said:
Including here
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I feel like that was meant to be snarky, which if it were isn't as clever as you think it is. Neogaf even on it's worst days are not as bad as other gaming site. In some classes in college being better than everyone else amounts to an A.

FyreWulff said:
CNN has killed comments on any of their front page stuff as well.

The internet is slowly improving.
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CNN was just the worst. Ironically, all the intellectually challenged people usually spent a lot of time there.
 
Weren't there a lot of spam and garbage in their comments? I don't read their reviews nor the comments section but I remember seeing a lot of spam and random crap they didn't bother to remove when I went there a long time ago.
 
Anteater said:
Weren't there a lot of spam and garbage in their comments? I don't read their reviews nor the comments section but I remember seeing a lot of spam and random crap they didn't bother to remove when I went there a long time ago.
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Seems weird that a routine spam blocker wouldn't be able to block those. Just disable any posts that contain a link or something.
 
Good. Comment sections on news sites are always filled with just the most eye-gougingly worst comments imaginable. Nothing of value is being lost.
 
rpmurphy said:
The best reviews on Amazon are for terrible products. Too bad the audience is not quite the same as on game media sites.
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To be fair, Amazon reviews are also filled with astroturfing and mercenary "Top 500 Reviewer" crap. Not to mention idiots who rate their bad experience with a third party seller instead of the product.
 
kind of surprising since it does even more to kill the chances of having a community over there, but I guess they weren't worth having. never really read them.

real surprise for me is that they haven't killed the System Wars forum yet.
 
TheBryanJZX90 said:
Yeah, good riddance. And please no one spout off bullshit about oppressing the free speech of commenters.
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You could have easily avoided the comments section if they offended you. It's amazing how short-sighted people can be nowadays. One of the internet's best features over traditional programming is the ability to spout off in comments.
 
I can see the comment section fine.Gamespot won;t remove the comment section ever without telling their users.
 
SlowRevolution said:
kind of surprising since it does even more to kill the chances of having a community over there, but I guess they weren't worth having. never really read them.

real surprise for me is that they haven't killed the System Wars forum yet.
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I don't think that forum will ever be killed. There are way to many bad things that can happen if that forum was removed. That topic seems to be brought up occasionally.
 
SlowRevolution said:
kind of surprising since it does even more to kill the chances of having a community over there, but I guess they weren't worth having. never really read them.

real surprise for me is that they haven't killed the System Wars forum yet.
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SW is essentially a quarantine. Designate a specific area for the foolishness so it doesn't spill over into other discussion and decent human beings know where to avoid.
 
If this is true, then that's horrible... more moderation, absolutely, but complete removal? That would suck. Some of my favorite experiences on the internet have been rationally debating people over youtube, gamespot, destructoid, etc. It's the whole reason I joined NeoGaf, really.

Don't remove an entire feature because of a few bad apples, or to make your life easier.
 
Xe4 said:
If this is true, then that's horrible... more moderation, absolutely, but complete removal? That would suck. Some of my favorite experiences on the internet have been rationally debating people over youtube, gamespot, destructoid, etc. It's the whole reason I joined NeoGaf, really.

Don't remove an entire feature because of a few bad apples, or to make your life easier.
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The comment section is still alive on gamespot.I don't usually look in the comments section, but they are usually bad in certain articles or reviews whenever I look at the section of the site
 
mo60 said:
The comment section is still alive on gamespot.I don't usually look in the comments section, but they are usually bad in certain articles or reviews whenever I look at the section of the site
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Interesting; the only comments I seem to be getting are those for the Destiny review in progress. Maybe they updated, and there's a bug or something.
 
mo60 said:
The comment section is still alive on gamespot.I don't usually look in the comments section, but they are usually bad in certain articles or reviews whenever I look at the section of the site
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I'm not sure if GS even has any moderators left. They're incredibly slow at deleting comments, a pretty recent story about GaymerX had a lot of straight up homophobia in the comment section and they didn't do anything about it for days. The problem for GS is that they don't really have any community left (the forum is dead for such a big site, with the remaining users just bitching about the site and the redesign about a year ago), so the only comments they get seem to be by people bitching about something.

Anyways, this might just be a bug. The Sims 4 review shows that there's over 300 comments, but you just can't see them right now.
 
Myggen said:
I'm not sure if GS even has any moderators left. They're incredibly slow at deleting comments, a pretty recent story about GaymerX had a lot of straight up homophobia in the comment section and they didn't do anything about it for days. The problem for GS is that they don't really have any community left (the forum is dead for such a big site, with the remaining users just bitching about the site and the redesign about a year ago), so the only comments they get seem to be by people bitching about something.
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I'm a moderator on that site, but I don't deal with the comments usually. I think there are a few moderators that do specialize in removing posts in the comments section of the site, but it may take awhile to get rid of comments that violate the TOU in that section of the site.The Livefrye system is also not the greatest anyway so I usually avoid that section of the site
 
I am still not seeing any comments, except for that one video link someone sent that did indeed have comments. Is something wrong with their commenting system. Why would some be able to see it and other not?
 
The comments on these big sites are a waste of time anyway. People get baited by drive-by comments way too easily.
 
Comment sections are the worst. There are a ton of other places online to talk about news, reviews, games, etc I don't see any reason why they need to exist on the actual publications. Removing comment sections means that people would actually have to put thought and effort into writing the editor (like they used to in game magazines).
 
Doesn't bother me, I don't agree with Gamespot review so I don't visit the site and just use my twitter to comment about them.

Captainbojanglesiii said:
It's smart but I hope IGN doesn't follow this path. My cat puns need to continue to be seen in review comments.
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You must had a field day with their review of Super Mario 3D World.
 
The comments section of their Skyward Sword review is the greatest thing I've ever seen. Kept me entertained for hours. For this reason I see the value of a comments section.
 
Mr-Joker said:
Doesn't bother me, I don't agree with Gamespot review so I don't visit the site and just use my twitter to comment about them.



You must had a field day with their review of Super Mario 3D World.
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I didn't have my account yet sadly. Although I could imagine the pawsability of that to be purrty purrfect in my purrsonal view.
 
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