There's always loads of forums and debates about improve the trending section, nominating maps for community favourites and map posts but can we all just agree on this one thing. COMMENTS SHOULD HAVE NO EFFECT ON TRENDING OR COMMUNITY FAVOURITES! thank you
Putting comments as a booster for the trending section promotes constructive and positive comments as leaving a pointless negative comment will only help gain awareness for the map. At least theoretically. Discussion and controversy, in my opinion, should be something that effects "trending". Probably not for "top maps" or anything like that though. Don't we have a discussion thread for this? I don't think this needed its own thread.
Eh...I kind of like having comments as a contributing factor, though the weighting could certainly be up for debate. It should only have a small impact on something like Community Favorites, but should have a pretty big impact on Trending Maps. People have the option to ignore crappy maps if they’re worried about it, or can start doing reviews with poor ratings.