as bas as upvoting/downvoting scores works on posts, comment scores instead tends to actually works as intended: a positive score is given to things like admiring art, reacting to the story/characters in intelligent way, or just by making a good joke, while creepy comments and bad taste humor or other things such as "OH BY GOD MY EYES BURNS WHAT IS THIS SHIT?!?" are immediately targeted with downvotes and either erased from existence by the one who made them, or they don't get shown unless prompted. Also, not even the admins are allowed to upvote their own comments, giving to the whole thing a giant edge over youtube comment section (not that was really necessary i mean... check the ones of touhou soundrack, people are roleplaying as character from the series as you're reading this, most of them counts as lolis... it's kind disturbing...).

so... well, nothing else, just a small appreciation corner for a feature of this site that not only works but also show that furries can be civilized and polite, instead of the absolute, unsalvageable cringe that haters believe we are.

fox_crown said:
a positive score is given to things like admiring art, reacting to the story/characters in intelligent way, or just by making a good joke, while creepy comments and bad taste humor or other things such as "OH BY GOD MY EYES BURNS WHAT IS THIS SHIT?!?" are immediately targeted with downvotes

Sometimes. Plenty of creepy comments get upvoted, and as jokes and humor are subjective, whether or not a good joke gets upvoted or bad taste humor gets downvoted, depends on what you find funny or not.

The "creepy comment" part is debatable. I took the scores of comments that recently got users banned for being "creepy": 0, 6, 0, 0, 8, -10, 0, -2, 0, -1, -2, 10, 0, -1, -9, 4, -15, 30, -16, 3.
Median: 0
Mean: +0.25
# of upvoted comments: 6
# of downvoted comments: 8

watsit said:
Sometimes. Plenty of creepy comments get upvoted, and as jokes and humor are subjective, whether or not a good joke gets upvoted or bad taste humor gets downvoted, depends on what you find funny or not.

crocogator said:
The "creepy comment" part is debatable. I took the scores of comments that recently got users banned for being "creepy": 0, 6, 0, 0, 8, -10, 0, -2, 0, -1, -2, 10, 0, -1, -9, 4, -15, 30, -16, 3.
Median: 0
Mean: +0.25
# of upvoted comments: 6
# of downvoted comments: 8

To be fair, the reason the creepy comments rule exists at all is to prevent artists and other site members from experiencing discomfort due to the contents of the message. From my experience, the score of a comment generally defines that amount of discomfort, and those with negative or low score are often obvious cases of inappropriate commenting. However, those of higher scores are usually phrased in humorous ways or are something of low severity that many people generally agree on, although still break the rule due to having the potential to cause discomfort if interpreted in certain ways. The rule doesn't really address these more nuanced cases, and as a result there are occasionally times when people get flagged for something that seems relatively tame. For example, sometimes the character in the art is asking the viewer a sexually charged question, and someone comments with some form of acceptance; completely disregarding the fact that many artists that create such images fully expect comments of that nature (as usually seen in the comment sections of twitter/furaffinity/whatever other platform they post images on), I've seen a few cases where some site members have said some simple variant of "yes" or "ok" and been hit by a flag. While this issue doesn't happen often, it should still be taken into account when deciding weather or not a comment should be considered rule breaking or not. A more fleshed out definition under the creepy comment rule that addresses this particular situation would also be welcome.

That being said, the artist of the piece should always have a final say on what comments are considered welcome or not, so if they are the ones who dislike the comment, then that comment should be removed. Further more, artists should be given a function that disables the comment section on their art entirely if they wish, if they don't want to risk such comments from arising to begin with.

crocogator said:
The "creepy comment" part is debatable. I took the scores of comments that recently got users banned for being "creepy": 0, 6, 0, 0, 8, -10, 0, -2, 0, -1, -2, 10, 0, -1, -9, 4, -15, 30, -16, 3.
Median: 0
Mean: +0.25
# of upvoted comments: 6
# of downvoted comments: 8

The -1s and -2s are making me suspect that the comment threshold is playing into this.

To add onto what others have said, another reason why we have that creepy comments rule is because without it, the comment section would surely fall to ruin. Just look at what bots scrape up from e621 and post onto rule34.xxx or whatever. Those comment sections are hellish.

To show an example, I looked at one of my recent art posts on that site, and a user named "Cummys" is roleplaying as the alolan vulpix I drew, in the comments. If you did that here, you'd just insta-die, IT'S GREAT

pd said:
To add onto what others have said, another reason why we have that creepy comments rule is because without it, the comment section would surely fall to ruin. Just look at what bots scrape up from e621 and post onto rule34.xxx or whatever. Those comment sections are hellish.

To show an example, I looked at one of my recent art posts on that site, and a user named "Cummys" is roleplaying as the alolan vulpix I drew, in the comments. If you did that here, you'd just insta-die, IT'S GREAT

as i said, one doesn't need to travel far to look for garbage comments, youtube comment section can be disturbing at times