Suggestion, upvote comments!?

Question

Let's say someone posts a comment by accident instead of an answer then you could upvote it.You would get 5 points for having a comment upvoted, 1 for upvoting a comment, 10 for having your comment as best comment and 2 points for selecting best comment.

P.S I think it's crappy but it could be useful

Comments

This was suggested before, but I can't find it. Doesn't seem bad, but you would have to get something like +2 points instead of plus 10, other wise you would have just answered xD

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"Let's say someone posts a comment by accident instead of an answer then you could upvote it"

In regards to that point, you can always hide the comment and repost as an answer.

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http://pokemondb.net/pokebase/meta/36801/perhaps-add-a-comment-upvoting-system @PX Who knew tags could be useful?

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I also suggested before, but hid it because it was already suggested.

Answer 1

Firstly, if someone accidentally posts an answer as a comment, upvoting the comment isn't the correct solution - they should post it as an answer! Maybe we could have a thing to convert comments to answers.

However, comment upvoting is a good idea. Actually, it's something that's been requested a lot for the software we use (Question2Answer) and as I'm now lead developer it will likely happen some time in the future!

Comments

Convert comments to answers would be a good feature to implement on the site and so would the ability to up vote comments. However if you were to introduce comment up voting, I personally don't think points should be gained from it, as people could just spam comments to get points without the need to answer questions. Just my opinion (which you don't have to take into consideration) but I think if you were to introduce a comment up voting system it should be to promote friendly relations on the DB and to show which comments are the most popular like with YouTube.

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If people would gain points from comments, you would have to raise priviledge requirement as points would be alot easier to get (eg. Expert-8000 points)