Important Update: Commenting System Revamp(Place for Feedback)

[QUOTE="The-Apostle"][QUOTE="Eric_Drav3n"]

The old comment system was one of the best things about this site, dunno why you felt the need to change it.

I hate everything about the new one, please please change back it's not even fun to read and post comments anymore.

irishdude199210

If you never commented that much, why are you in even posting in this thread?

I use it sometimes, but I was mostly posting because I like the editor.

This new commenting system has me thinking about GS in an entirely new way. I'm not into Facebook or Twitter at all, and I'm sure that many others here feel the same way. I just hope that GameSpot doesn't turn into a FB-esque website. I missed the old way we used to do things around here. I joined GS about 2 and a half years ago because I thought the website was user-friendly, simplistic and awesome. Now, it's all becoming too complex, too social, and (hopefully not) too personal ... and I'm not a personal kind of guy. I just hope that whatever was done here with the commenting system will not [in any way shape or form] affect our beloved unions. It's all we've got left that hasn't been tampered with the social media craze yet... :(

The news feed system as it was before was perfect, plain, simple, fun to use.

When I knew the time I posted I could easily backtrack there with one click even if it was days away, like "Hm I guess it's on page 4 now" One click, or maybe two because it was on site 5 instead.

Now I had to click that stupid "50 more" about 20 times to find a post I did yesterday evening (and it's noon right here right now), not to mention that it's stupid, as more "50 more"'s as are opened, as slower and slower the whole site becomes and I'll never ever be able again to find my stuff and posts in 1 click.

Furthermore the + / - system was great.

Why, why do great companies try to ruin the fun we had over years (well for me about 1, though still, I liked it here before, like, really really liked it....and now....meh :/ )and think they have to overdo everything every 2 weeks?

Dear GameSpot, aiming for becoming the new YouTube? ._.

Since the change, I notice that I don't read the comments as much anymore. It used to be one of my favorite parts of Gamespot. I really do not like the changes that were made.

[QUOTE="rigzzsy"]

didn't realise there was already a thread for this

bring back the thumbs down and i'll be happy

Synthia

[QUOTE="Synthia"][QUOTE="rigzzsy"]

didn't realise there was already a thread for this

bring back the thumbs down and i'll be happy

cyraxkilawatt

I agree with this. It's good to know who dislike our comments. LOL I'm just kiddin'. :P

I used to to think that GS comment system is fun and unique. But now...there's no spelling check, no emoticon, and even to search my previous comment is tedious enough. show 50+more...50+more... 50+more...

Can't you do something about that? :(

[QUOTE="cyraxkilawatt"][QUOTE="Synthia"] So if there was a thumbs down functionality that displayed your image next to it (like the way the "like" button functions) you'd be fine with that? Whitebloodsun

I agree with this. It's good to know who dislike our comments. LOL I'm just kiddin'. :P

I used to to think that GS comment system is fun and unique. But now...there's no spelling check, no emoticon, and even to search my previous comment is tedious enough. show 50+more...50+more... 50+more...

Can't you do something about that? :(

The only positive change I see is that there is no longer any de facto censorship of unpopular opinions. Every single other feature ranges from being slighly lesser, to being significantly worse. Not to mention scrolling down a few hundred posts takes forever and forces any browser I've used to eat RAM like none other.

I see no point to Livefyre. It's really quite awful.

We apologize for the technical difficulties during the Microsoft press conference. We're working to resolve the delayed commenting posts, and other concerns many of you brought to our attention. Please continue to provide your feedback about how your chatroom experience is this year compared to years before.

We apologize for the technical difficulties during the Microsoft press conference. We're working to resolve the delayed commenting posts, and other concerns many of you brought to our attention. Please continue to provide your feedback about how your chatroom experience is this year compared to years before.

Synthia

last years was better

been a while now but yeah definitely, a thumbs down system that displayed who approved/disapproved would be an improvement even over the last one

last year was awsome, this year I can't watch it because of the lag

We apologize for the technical difficulties during the Microsoft press conference. We're working to resolve the delayed commenting posts, and other concerns many of you brought to our attention. Please continue to provide your feedback about how your chatroom experience is this year compared to years before.

Synthia

I like to play the stream at its widest (but not fullscreen). This pushes the comments down so I can't see them anyway. The constant AJAX refresh is a huge CPU drain, which affects the video playback, and the comments come in so fast you can't even read them.

The old chatroom, with 100 person limit per room, was usable and much better than this.

For E3, we really, really need chat rooms. For other times during the year this comment system should work well but not E3. Do we really have to start a riot to get a chat room back? :P

If I chop off the hands of the key developers... will it stop people developing absolute rubbish for this site? Just use third party servers for once. Your servers are always overloaded and slow when it comes to e3 but you NEVER LEARN so we are stuck with lag all the time. You would think after so many years of failures, Gamespot may actually listen.

It's nearly impossible to Flag the bad language comments as well because everything moves downward from new comments every time you click on it. I just saw 5 uses of the F Bomb again within 2 min. This needs to be stopped!!!DarthLod

So, this bad language and vulgar speak is actually allowed on here? When did this site become so immature? Constant use of F Bombs (because I was seeing one every 20 seconds or so for over an hour) and other bad words are actually ALLOWED now? DarthLod

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For E3, we really, really need chat rooms. For other times during the year this comment system should work well but not E3. Do we really have to start a riot to get a chat room back? :P

Dracula68

Yep, we do. BURN EVERYTHING. :twisted:

[QUOTE="Dracula68"] [QUOTE="irishdude199210"][This message was deleted at the request of a moderator or administrator]irishdude199210

Ignore and move on....

The comments during e3 was lagging. Can you please fix this.

Personally i don't like the new commenting system , i hope you're just testing this because i and many other gamespotters would like the old one back. I know you're trying to make it social media -ish but it's really unappealing. Commenting used to be fun , we used to have emoticons and different colors and now it's just comment after comment after comment and the chances that someone will notice your comment are very slim. Also the white background doesn't help , it's as if it's from a different website , it's not in harmony with GS's black and orange. :? Lastly it feels very shaky(?) and glitchy. Please PLEASE bring back the old system and if you're thinking of changing the commenting system of the forums STOP!! At least make a poll and see what we think about this "improvement".

Add me to the list of people who hate the new system. Old comments STILL not showing up on blogs even after a month and a half. I've been here on GS for 8 years and now you are trying to turn GS into Facebook is just sad. People are leaving the site because GS has become so shallow and simply not fun anymore. The site used to be about gaming but sadly that's not the case anymore.

Add me to the list of people who hate the new system. Old comments STILL not showing up on blogs even after a month and a half. I've been here on GS for 8 years and now you are trying to turn GS into Facebook is just sad. People are leaving the site because GS has become so shallow and simply not fun anymore. The site used to be about gaming but sadly that's not the case anymore.

jepsen1977

I would say keep the new comment system if you can just fix two things: number of comments shown in blogs, and PM notifications of comments. Some people don't have their email open with them all the time, so for them, email notifications are useless. We need to be notified via GS's inbox. JustPlainLucas

Pretty much this.

Also, I'd like to add that for some blog comments I have recieved, I was not notified via email, so some blog comments were there that I didn't know I recieved and I ended up replying to weeks later.

the new comment system is good but I would like every time I want to reply through an email notification my comment to be at top like youtube and not to have to scroll through countless comments down.

I have tried to adapt to the new forum comments system .. but I believe that the changes are resulting in more negative and flame posts than simply allowing the thumbs down to return. The threading is nice, so kudos there. The 'socialization' features just do not add much to the party for me personally. Just one opinion from a long time user.

Overall, I have changed my use of the site since the redesign as well. I now just bookmark the news page and go there - since the front page make me not want to visit the site due to its overall design / UI.

I really don't see what was wrong with the old comment system. As to the E3 chat, I would like to see the old system in place, with a automatic spam filter.

1. Allow comment editing.

2. Provide the GS emoticons.

3. Fix the blog comment number for new blogs (how hard is that, comment count shows on news articles).

4. Please DO NOT give LiveFyre access to PMs, they are an outside agency. PMs should stay on-site and private.

1. Allow comment editing.

2. Provide the GS emoticons.

3. Fix the blog comment number for new blogs (how hard is that, comment count shows on news articles).

4. Please DO NOT give LiveFyre access to PMs, they are an outside agency. PMs should stay on-site and private.

topsemag55

these are all really good suggestions^^

Edit button for comments would be greatly appreciated.b10nutz

This. Also a spell checker for comments.