A lot of people I talk to don't know what I'm talking about when I mention beatmap comments—they're the side scrolling comments that show up, at the timestamp in the song when they were entered, when you watch someone play a map/replay, with Discussion -> Show comments enabled.
Most of them are either
Anyways (don't mind my long-winded introduction), at least for regular users, the comments appear anonymous and unmoderated. Since it's anonymous, people get away with saying whatever shit they want. The anime songs' comments often contain spoilers (some asshole wrote a major SAO spoiler in my courage map), and I also noticed this gem on iMage--'s Oracion:
We should have a system to report comments, see who wrote them, or remove our own. What kind of comments should be removed is another story (spoilers don't really break any rules), but there are some that definitely shouldn't be there and I don't know if anybody can take them down.
Most of them are either
- retarded ("AAAAAAAAAA..." spam in Big Black),
- hilarious to some (those [̲̅$̲̅(̲̅ ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°̲̅)̲̅$̲̅] NEED CASH? [̲̅$̲̅(̲̅ ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°̲̅)̲̅$̲̅] comments on every popular map),
- in a foreign language,
- parroting the song lyrics (Pretender lyrics "WHAT IF I SAID I'M NOT LIKE THE OTHERS"),
- repeating a catchy/memorable line in the song ("MAWARE MAWARE MAWARE MAWARE", "DADADADADADADADADADA"),
- or pointing out something surprising/noteworthy in the video (You hear that? That's the sound of thousands of fangirls seeing Rin in the video. Also most eroge videos during the sexy frames).
Anyways (don't mind my long-winded introduction), at least for regular users, the comments appear anonymous and unmoderated. Since it's anonymous, people get away with saying whatever shit they want. The anime songs' comments often contain spoilers (some asshole wrote a major SAO spoiler in my courage map), and I also noticed this gem on iMage--'s Oracion:
SPOILER
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We should have a system to report comments, see who wrote them, or remove our own. What kind of comments should be removed is another story (spoilers don't really break any rules), but there are some that definitely shouldn't be there and I don't know if anybody can take them down.