Kotaku Comments - Opinions

Is anyone else really annoyed by the recent change Kotaku has made to their comments section? 

Its kind of anoying but I dont post there much before anyways.

My only gripe with it is the fact that I have to scroll to the bottom of the page every time I want to read the comments because I kind of want to see ALL of the comments. Who the fuck cares if a troll post is out in the open every once in a while?

Kotaku commenters are... worse than GameFAQs members. I love/hate it.

Yeah I don't post there at all, I just thought it was a bit of an odd way to treat your users, and encourage the kind of posting most of their gold star members partake in, seems counter-productive to me :\

Kotaku is a bloody horrid site to begin with so I question why anyone wants to visit there. The 'news' they post is poorly written garbage in its quality. Horrible site, horrible editorial staff and the comments are like any other on the internet, non-sensical.

I don't know what's more pointless; creating a post on a gaming website to complain about a comments feature on another gaming website, or me making this post questioning it.

" Kotaku is a bloody horrid site to begin with so I question why anyone wants to visit there. The 'news' they post is poorly written garbage in its quality. Horrible site, horrible editorial staff and the comments are like any other on the internet, non-sensical. "

" @Hamz said:

" Kotaku is a bloody horrid site to begin with so I question why anyone wants to visit there. The 'news' they post is poorly written garbage in its quality. Horrible site, horrible editorial staff and the comments are like any other on the internet, non-sensical. "

Ah, so long as we're not treading on eggshells haha, i'll fully agree. I simply go there because they post up the most stuff and I follow the source links and form my own opinions on the actual news. I've discussed my opinions on Kotaku and their irresponsible behaviour around here somewhere before.  "

I don't pay attention to the comments.  I just pay attention to the articles.

The only site where I read comments after articles is in fact Giant Bomb. Kotaku is usually filled with snarky replies, 1up comments often feel jaded, and GameTrailers is overrun by system fanboys. Don't get me wrong, these of course exist on all sites, but Giant Bomb seems to be hit by these people the least. This might be due to the laid back nature of the site and the people who run it as a whole.

Atleast Kotaku gets you news when it is NEWS not hours after the fact. Don't get me wrong I love GiantBomb to death, its a great community compared to Kotaku and other gaming sites but they are always just late on news. No site is perfect and using one source for everything is going to put in the same mindset as that one site, vary it up and try to ignore the things you dislike.

Kotaku is The Sun of the gaming world.
you may as well give a trilby with a card that say PRESS to a retard in the band, and you would get the same results.

" Atleast Kotaku gets you news when it is NEWS not hours after the fact. Don't get me wrong I love GiantBomb to death, its a great community compared to Kotaku and other gaming sites but they are always just late on news. No site is perfect and using one source for everything is going to put in the same mindset as that one site, vary it up and try to ignore the things you dislike. "

Kotaku sucks anyway, I mean their site layout is horrendous.

Joystiq is where it's at.

I rarely ever comment on Kotaku but I occasionally read comments, the new system is a little annoying.

Who cares about the comments, it's video game news that I'm interested in. Not what some 15 year old kid with an inflated ego thinks.

"@Hamz: Were you the mod who PM'd me about my Fauxtaku thread?"

" @Hamz said:

"horrible editorial staff "

Except Owen Good. You can say what you want about the others -- I couldn't care less -- but you do  not talk shit about Owen Good. "

" @Subject2Change said:

" Atleast Kotaku gets you news when it is NEWS not hours after the fact. Don't get me wrong I love GiantBomb to death, its a great community compared to Kotaku and other gaming sites but they are always just late on news. No site is perfect and using one source for everything is going to put in the same mindset as that one site, vary it up and try to ignore the things you dislike. "

Do we really need GB for news, though?  An RSS feed can give you all the news about video games you'd ever want.  I just come to GB to hear their opinions on the stuff they do care about.  "

"@Hamz said:

"@Icemael said:

" @Hamz said:

"horrible editorial staff "

Except Owen Good. You can say what you want about the others -- I couldn't care less -- but you do  not talk shit about Owen Good. "

Sorry buddy but I totally am. None of the editors there have ever struck me as good at their job. "

Are you saying that Owen isn't Good at his job? "

" @Icemael said:

"@Hamz said:

"@Icemael said:

" @Hamz said:

"horrible editorial staff "

Except Owen Good. You can say what you want about the others -- I couldn't care less -- but you do  not talk shit about Owen Good. "

Sorry buddy but I totally am. None of the editors there have ever struck me as good at their job. "

Are you saying that Owen isn't Good at his job? "

I'd say that for sure. All he does is post tripe over the weekends to keep the site ticking, and whenever he does make a comment of his own it's misinformed or irrelevant.Not a patch on Luke Plunkett, I thoroughly despise that flamebaiting, over-opinionated, self indulgent, snidey, etc etc. He's the worst writer for miles imo. "

Kotaku and its community are almost as elitist and snobby as the people at NeoGaf and make as much sense as your typical gamefaq poster. Also agreeing that the site is pretty poorly written in general.

" Kotaku is a bloody horrid site to begin with so I question why anyone wants to visit there. The 'news' they post is poorly written garbage in its quality. Horrible site, horrible editorial staff and the comments are like any other on the internet, non-sensical. "