People are probably downvoting because of the sheer volume of off topic threads on the all forums page. Giving people an option to exclude off topic threads from the all forums page would help solve the problem.

Edited 9/23/2016 02:29:40

@Fizzer: The latest update with the lowered threshold for comments is definitely an improvement. At least now there is some feedback (in the form of successfully hidden noisy/trollish comments) that comment downvoting can be successful.

I have a feeling that the threshold for comments is still slightly too high, since trollish comments still have a fairly long life-span. But perhaps as people catch on to it and start dv'ing more, it will work properly and thus maybe it's actually at the right level.

I'd give it a week or two to see if people catch on. If not, then perhaps lower the threshold slightly one more time. One thing I can definitely say is that it's not too low: it's not overly easy to dv comments to become hidden.

Edited 9/23/2016 06:58:55

@Fizzer: I have noticed a slight performance bug with the voting system. It probably has something to do with either a DB query or whatever data structure you're using to perform the modifications to comment votes (I'm just guessing, based on the apparent O(n) performance behaviour).

When you use thumbs up or down on a comment in a thread that contains many comments (like https://www.warlight.net/Forum/4307-question-?Offset=6870 for instance) the UI shows the spinning progress indicator for a much much longer time than when you do it on a small thread. It still works, it's just really slow (comparatively speaking; it's not unbearably slow, just annoying).

It seems that this delay only happens the first time you vote on a comment. After that, the delay is much shorter, but other 'virgin' comments still have long delays on first vote. Probably there's some level of caching going on? Anyway, hope that helps you identify the culprit.

@wct, you should report this as a bug if you haven't already.

Good idea, thx. Done!