Star Wars: Attack of TUAW's New Comment System

More changes afoot at TUAW and soon to spread across the Weblogs, Inc. network. Starting today, we have a new comment rating system which will enable us to highlight commenters who make useful and entertaining contributions, while fighting comment spam at the same time.

Jason summed it up well on his blog the other day when we began testing.

"We recently launched a new feature in Blogsmith (our home grown blogging software) called the 'Star System.' You can see it at work over at
TVSquad.com, and the goal is simple: reward the good contributors and get rid of the spammer/freaks."

The good news is we don't have to agree with what you have to say in order to give you a star rating, so there's no need to kiss up to us just to get a little attention. Of course, we don't mind it if you kiss up to us anyway :)

It'll take a few days before we really get the hang of this system, so don't worry if you don't get rated right away. We appreciate your patience while we get things started and we look forward to your feedback on this innovative new program. May the force be with you.