Club Crimsyn

I'm sorry the comments have gotten to the point where you refuse to have anything on there. While I respect Joe for allowing comments, it's sort of become a haven for people to troll in the comments. What horrifies me is that the trolls take it as a cue to go troll on the creator's blogs. Joe may be in a bad position right now, because anything he does to stop them would only encourage them; telling them to stop or he'll take comments away/ban IPs/etc would probably encourage trolls to do more, because they don't care. They probably don't even play the sims at all. They just want attention- every time he's stepped in, it's encouraged them.

What's more, there's a sizable amount of comments that *have* proven useful- I've seen many cases where comments have alerted to defects that could crash or mess up the game, not just 'i wish this was like this'. I once asked a creator on the comments (Poppysims, I believe) if she'd be willing to do a small modification to a EA skirt. She did, almost instantly. There's also been a call for a mod recently, like the case where someone asked for a mod for their autistic child. The trolling was, thankfully, little to none on those posts, last I checked. He'll be throwing those out with the bad ones, unless he decides to moderate all the comments.

The way I see it, Joe's sort of in a 'damned if you do, damned if you don't' situation. Perhaps, if trolled creators withdraw, the trolls will stop coming, Joe may not need to do anything that could call attention to them, and the blog will become safer to new creators. Those who stay either show that they're not going to tolerate bullying (not including simple critiques, of course).

I got your blog bookmarked; I don't want to miss anything. I'm glad I found out because otherwise I would have missed your future work.