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I totally agree with you, Gary.

I still think that maybe only users should be able to leave comments. This would give more people an incentive to join this site and actively partake of its benefits and it wouldn't allow anonymous people to spam the comments sections as easily as they sometimes do now.

That's just an idea, and it's meant as a bit of an aside.

Mainly, I want to write in support of what Gary is saying here, as a chess editor. I want to suggest that we re-program the comments section so that anyone who wants to leave a comment has to construct at least a five word sentence (has to write at least five words) about why they felt the way they did about any given variant. We can make it so that when you click on the send button for comments, we will politely and kindly ask for a small comment about why they felt the way they did about a variant. This will be helpful to everybody. The current system involves some counterproductive activity, in which we editors have to check all the anonymous messages where someone did nothing but rate a game without any explanation and then people, including variant authors and inventors, have to read through these anonymous comments most likely without any gain of insight or understanding or common feeling.

This happened to me twice yesterday and just now, and it made me want to go back and write in support of Gary's valuable suggestion.