Low Res Guy
04-14-2012, 12:37 AM
Dear Valve and your Steam Workshop Employees. I have a proposal directed at the comments section on the Steam Workshop. Comment ratings.
This would help get the good feedback out to modders and the bad comments discouraged and out of the way. In short, a more streamlined and helpful community would be promoted. It would probably most benefit mod creators- or even the users themselves -if we had a comment rating system.
The comment ratings you could give would be:
Helpful- Your comment is considered to be a useful and a good addition to conversation. It serves purpose as advice or expanding on the ideas shared.
Worthless - Your comment is considered to be a waste of time and server space. It contributes nothing to the discussion and shouldn't be noticed.
When you submit a comment, you could mark your opinion with two options that would show up as a happy face or a frown next to the comment. Hovering your mouse over it would say either of the two:
Approval - You would like to see its implementation
Disapproval - You would not like to see its implementation
This is based on the idea of Amazon's review system, where you could organize comments by the most helpful approving review, or the most helpful disapproving review. Comments with the lowest ratings of say -5 or more would be automatically hidden.
Basically, with these ratings and comment types, hopefully a comment organization method will also be implemented to view the most helpful and worthwhile comments.
Replying to another comment is something else that would be nice, along with being able to show more comments per page or simply a See All button. However, these are not as high priorities as a ratings system.
This is my proposal, and I think both users and authors would benefit. Thoughts?
This would help get the good feedback out to modders and the bad comments discouraged and out of the way. In short, a more streamlined and helpful community would be promoted. It would probably most benefit mod creators- or even the users themselves -if we had a comment rating system.
The comment ratings you could give would be:
Helpful- Your comment is considered to be a useful and a good addition to conversation. It serves purpose as advice or expanding on the ideas shared.
Worthless - Your comment is considered to be a waste of time and server space. It contributes nothing to the discussion and shouldn't be noticed.
When you submit a comment, you could mark your opinion with two options that would show up as a happy face or a frown next to the comment. Hovering your mouse over it would say either of the two:
Approval - You would like to see its implementation
Disapproval - You would not like to see its implementation
This is based on the idea of Amazon's review system, where you could organize comments by the most helpful approving review, or the most helpful disapproving review. Comments with the lowest ratings of say -5 or more would be automatically hidden.
Basically, with these ratings and comment types, hopefully a comment organization method will also be implemented to view the most helpful and worthwhile comments.
Replying to another comment is something else that would be nice, along with being able to show more comments per page or simply a See All button. However, these are not as high priorities as a ratings system.
This is my proposal, and I think both users and authors would benefit. Thoughts?