I am suggesting that you have to have a game loaded for at least 2 minutes before you can comment or rate it. This would (hopefully) lower the amount of spam and prevent people from just opening up a random game rating it whatever and spamming a comment.
The idea sounds great, but that would mean that every game has to have a separate timer on it and not just one, but several dozens (or more) for every user opening it and wanting to play it...
Besides, the flag option works fine I think. If you see a nonsence comment on the game or spam, you simply click the red flag and it will be noticed and deleted by the mods.
If people actually want to spam, they do it, not matter what. Loading for 2 minutes? They open a lot of games and wait. It is just 2 minutes after all. A minimum on words/letters? Comments like "lololololololololol" and "h h h h h h h h h h h" suddenly appear instead. Besides, the games are being looked more or less through every now and again, but while we can remove spam and ban offenders, there is not much to do with the rating. On the other hand, there is only that many games to rate, and if someone spams as well, they might just end up banned, and their time would be wasted.
If people actually want to spam, they do it, not matter what. Loading for 2 minutes? They open a lot of games and wait. It is just 2 minutes after all. A minimum on words/letters? Comments like "lololololololololol" and "h h h h h h h h h h h" suddenly appear instead.
think of the significance or the 30-second submit button X4. I think you'd have to be really stubborn to wait two minutes for each of many comments and i imagine spammers to be very impatient for AP.
How much can you load in 2 minutes? Some 100 games? Then start from the first and spam those, reload, repeat. I wonder, what about people who have played the games somewhere else, have the comment typed out, and then they have to wait? They might be more patient, but it is still bothersome to wait for nothing.
it'd take you 3 and 1/3 hours to rate 100 games with 2 minute wait between each.
Uhm, if you use tabs, you can load a hundred games quite easily, if your net does its magic. It is not a lot of time to wait, and they might be playing a single game while they wait...
