would you like a ratings of comments system on giantbomb?

nope we used to have it . And it got abused by trolls .

Definitely not. We used to have one, but the Flag/Karma system works a lot better in terms of alerting mods to rule-breakers. That, and +1s mean nothing.

I mean a +1 -1 next to the comment as on youtube. 
I think this might improve the forums as if someone makes a troll-like comment you can let them know without getting into a flame war with them. What do you reckon? Sorry if this has been brought up somewhere else mods...  
obviously I'm thinking if alot of people care and vote then maybe the sitebuilders will look at it.  Democracy woo!

If it was made like urbandictionary.com, where both positive and negative votes are counted, rather then one score overall, then yes. I would prefer a system that would allow us to favorite comments we really like and save it on a "favorite comments" page where we could go back and look through all of them. 

We used to have one, but it was supposed to be a moderation tool.  It didn't work very well.  Also, in general I just find that they unnecessarily undermine someone's opinion just because it's unpopular.  Why disagree with you in an intelligent way when I can just minus one you and make your argument seem less credible?

No, I think they should get rid of this forum and replace it with phpBB. 

oh right, I wondered if it had been tried. Oh well, i'm not going to labour the point then.

We used to have a +/- ratings system and it was abused. People would give a minus vote to anything they disagreed with, whether it was a trolling comment or not. If you see a troll comment, simply flag it and myself or one of the other moderators will deal with it.

" I mean a +1 -1 next to the comment as on youtube. I think this might improve the forums as if someone makes a troll-like comment you can let them know without getting into a flame war with them. What do you reckon? Sorry if this has been brought up somewhere else mods...  obviously I'm thinking if alot of people care and vote then maybe the sitebuilders will look at it.  Democracy woo! "

" We used to have a +/- ratings system and it was abused. People would give a minus vote to anything they disagreed with, whether it was a trolling comment or not. If you see a troll comment, simply flag it and myself or one of the other moderators will deal with it. "

" @MattyFTM said:

" We used to have a +/- ratings system and it was abused. People would give a minus vote to anything they disagreed with, whether it was a trolling comment or not. If you see a troll comment, simply flag it and myself or one of the other moderators will deal with it. "

There was one dude who just had to post anything and quickly amassed -50.  I can't remember his name, but it made a mockery of what it was supposed to do. "

" @oldschool said:

" @MattyFTM said:

" We used to have a +/- ratings system and it was abused. People would give a minus vote to anything they disagreed with, whether it was a trolling comment or not. If you see a troll comment, simply flag it and myself or one of the other moderators will deal with it. "

There was one dude who just had to post anything and quickly amassed -50.  I can't remember his name, but it made a mockery of what it was supposed to do. "

If you look at the top posters section to your left, he'll be the one at the very top. :) "

" @oldschool: According to his activity feed, he hasn't posted in about 5 months, but he has been playing a lot of the Orange Box in the past few days.  Giantbomb makes it so easy to be an internet stalker! "

" @EvilTwin said:

" @oldschool: According to his activity feed, he hasn't posted in about 5 months, but he has been playing a lot of the Orange Box in the past few days.  Giantbomb makes it so easy to be an internet stalker! "

I feel dirty just talking to you now    xD "

Shut the fuck up with your shitty ideas.

Not even a little bit.