Comment Re:Moderation system (Score 1) 763
If you're going to fix something about this site, you should first identify something that can be easily recognized as broken. What comes to my mind is the JS that drives the comment system. It's unresponsive as hell. Most of the time, I have to click "Preview" and "Submit" multiple times before anything happens. Even then, it often won't update to show me the finalized comment, forcing me to use my browser's Refresh button. Since this is neither consistent nor the intended functionality, I consider it a glaring and obvious bug(s). If I were the developer, I would focus on basic usability and getting fundamental functions to work smoothly before I'd move on to larger ideas.
Though it may seem like the Javascript, it's not. If you run a webserver from your posting IP and tail the logs while you post, you'll see that it's checking to see if you're posting through an open proxy, the frontend hangs until it finishes that server side check. Now, I have no idea why that check takes so long, but they don't make the check against the same IP too often, so if you post again soon after you make another post (or preview and then submit), you'll see that only the first request is slow, the rest skip the open proxy check and respond reasonably quickly.