That joke made my sense of humor murder my sympathy.

I've never played City of Heroes, but I have to assume as an MMORPG its players cover a wide range of ages.

Why not just implement a public voting system that works along the lines of movie and game ratings, with the game client itself possessing a parental rating lock? There's much less grief-voting incentive, unless the playerbase includes a large number of pedophiles specifically looking to get furry porn voted down to a PG rating and expose some kids, but it wouldn't be hard to lock content's rating once it has received a certain number of trusted votes.

That brings me to another point: AFAIK this is a pay game, which means creating new accounts isn't free or trivial. Many other communities have implemented the idea of 'trusted users' who can be expected to vote reasonably. If someone is consistently voting erratically, stop weighing their votes as heavily as someone who has been spot-on with majority ratings in the past.

I don't quite understand why this guy seems set on only having a simple 'flag as inappropriate' button when there are so many more options available.

Source?

Because last I heard, having genes predisposing one to a heart attack pretty much guarantees it while many people live lengthy lives on extremely high fat and sodium diets (see the south).

Personally I want to know why a flamebait comment can't also be insightful, even if I think my above comment was more stating the obvious.

News is slow and Ars Technica has already declared the death of internet advertising. Those editors need to keep the content flowing before the gravy train derails.

Maybe editors are so hard up for pageviews that they'll post whatever inconsequential slop comes to mind, and internet users are just so hard up for interesting news that they'll comment on whatever garbage the editors feed them.

If the tech sites puked out story after story about motherfucking lolcats apparently Timothy would take the comments to indicate mass obsession with them, which, shit... bad example.

But seriously, who is actually obsessed with Google's favicon and who is just bored?

I was under the impression that it's shoplifting.

I'd be laughing if I weren't crying.

Your foresight is truth.

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