OpenFrag - An Open Source FPS

OpenFrag was founded in May 2003 and aims to create an open source first person shooter with commercial grade quality. All participants are volunteers and use some of their spare time to help in the development process. The project was recently featured last month at the Finnish game exhibition XPlay 2006. Some of the project's textures have also been featured in the news at BlenderNation, it looks as if there is a promising future for these developers.

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Slashdot's comment system is flawed by design. I'm not saying an edit button should just be added, the whole thing needs to be scrapped. I know none of you are going to listen to me, but that's my opinion.

I honestly don't know what the rating system is for, that's one of the reasons I turned it off and don't even look at my comment's ratings. Unless you set your filter really high (more or less hiding all comments) it doesn't really do anything. In fact, it's kind of annoying not to be able to see all the comments immediately - especially because some of the worst ones can be entertaining.

I'd much rather see the ability for people to fix / improve their comments than the ability to filter them based on a very poor rating system. Everyone seems to make a big deal out of it, but I don't think it actually has any effect on the quality of comments. The point of a moderation system is to improve the quality of comments, if it doesn't do that what exactly is it for?

Call me crazy, but editing just seems like a more useful feature than a lame duck rating system that doesn't have a net effect on anything.