- Tue Sep 11, 2012 12:25 pm
#11749
I agree. This idea was bantered around the old VW site's BB on several occasions, specifically in regards to the tit flash section. The feeling at the time as expressed by Igor was that if registration was mandatory to post comments, then the amount of feedback would drop dramatically. And since most contributors were motivated by receiving comments, that this would have negative affect on those women that post their photos. The only action that was taken at the time was to reduce the number of reports that it took to have a comment reviewed and deleted. While that was an improvement, it was only a small step. The contributor still saw the comment, and it would often take hours to have it removed...even if enough people reported it. So the rude comments got more frequent, and grew even more insulting. The end result was a steady decline in legitimate contributors, and an increase in fake and stolen posts. Even some of the contributors that were not subject to the abuse were leaving because they couldn't stand seeing the way others were treated.
The argument that forced registration would reduce comments is valid...it would. But even if the drop in feedback was reduced by 50%, I think most contributors would agree that would be a small price to pay for the elimination of the abusive comments. Besides, most of the comments that would be lost are simple, "Nice tits" type of comments, and usually posted without a name anyway.
I'm hoping that when VW re-launches it's tit flash section (which should be very soon) that they will have installed some better safeguards. The ideal situation would be to allow the contributor to select whether they wanted to have their feedback open to everyone to comment, or just to people that have registered. Of course, user names that registered members use would have to be unavailable for guests to use. Since VC's tit flash is currently being over run with abusive comments, any improvement that VW could make would be a major incentive for legitimate contributors to return...leaving just the fakes and stolen posts to VC.