#avoidcomments

[jennilah]

I definitely have to call it quits on reading the comments section on anything and everything.

Youtube, news articles, interview articles, facebook comments, fucking all of it.

what in the fresh fuck is wrong with people

and their dumb-ass "opinions"

and comments on dumb shit

and then seeing how many people agree with them.

-officially subscribes to avoidcomments on twitter-

[usernamegone]

RPS Comment Free

In response to recent conversations about the worth of the comments on PC gaming site Rock Paper Shotgun, I threw together a quick user script to hide the comments section, comment counts and the sidebar of recently posted comments.

It's hosted on userscripts.org. It works in Firefox with the Greasemonkey extension. In Chrome it's a little different, since that browser won't by default install a user script from anywhere but Google, but saving the .user.js file locally, opening the Extensions list in a tab, and then dragging the file onto the tab will install the script. Other .user.js supporting options may be available for other browsers.

I'm sure most people will prefer to continue to see the comments on RPS, but I wanted the option to hide them from sight. In my opinion, their site's growth has outpaced the writers' ability to moderate the comments effectively, and the signal to noise ratio is now too low to read. Though there are still excellent comments being posted—perhaps as many as there have ever been—finding them necessitates skimming through pages of noise. I hope that John, Jim et al. can someday hire a full time comment moderator or find some other solution that will render this user script obsolete, but for now, please make use of it if you wish to.