A single button that sends a report after one click. This allows users to quickly send reports with little effort needed.
I understand that the amount of reports will increase massively, however moderators could also have a simple button to send a warning for spam after seeing the image as it doesn’t take long to recognize spam from other comments. You could search for certain words determining whether it’s spam after spam report is clicked to help reduce reports. Or another idea would be to have likes and dislikes on comments, when a comment gets a certain amount of dislikes it gets hidden, but has the option to be shown if the user wants to see it.
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I’m really surprised there still is so much spam.
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you may want to have it say “spam reported” instead of “report sent” because it gets confusing with the separate “report” button right above it.
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This would be really useful … it just might get annoying because I might wear out my mouse clicker. 
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Even if no special action takes place, it would still be useful to collect that kind of data if there’s going to be an anti-spam algorithm implemented in the future.
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Anything that makes a better experience in the community, I support.
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I wanted to let you know we are aware Comments have problems with spam and being off topic. We don’t like it either. This thread is similar but takes the suggestion in another direction. We’re thinking about these and other ideas for improving Comments. I’ll keep you posted as we get farther along.
Pop quiz!
How many Comments are posted per day on ROBLOX, on average?
a. 45,000
b. 15,000
c. 75,000
d. 5,000
e. 95,000
By quantity, what percentage of Comments are posted on Places vs. posted on Items?
a. 10% Places / 90% Items
b. 25% Places / 75% Items
c. 50% Places / 50% Items
d. 75% Places / 25% Items
e. 90% Places / 10% Items
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c. 75,000 (Just a guess)
b. 25% Places / 75% Items (Again, a guess, but I see so much more “SEND ME TRADES WHERE I MAKE A QUICK PROFIT AND YOU LOSE” stuff.)
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C
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A (A lot more items than places, and LMaDers frequently ask for trades in the comments of items)
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Hmmm, C and C 
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Wow our answers are all over the place. I choose:
e. 95,000
e. 90% Places / 10% Items
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Hmmm, I’ll just make a random guess and say:
E - 95,000 comments
B - 25% Games / 75% Items
I really have no idea.
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A couple more guesses and I’ll post the answers.
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a) 45k
and
b) 25:75
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A and B ?
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Have you guys considered turning off comments for ROBLOX-made assets (hats/gear/etc)? They seem to be only used by spammers.
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Fixed.
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I don’t like that approach because, for a lot of the games I work on, the comments are an up to date “live feed” of the community responding to each other/ pointing out things they don’t like/ arguments.
The purpose of comments is completely fine as is, it’s literally just an issue of poor infrastructure. No proper “reply” system, along with no way to delete/ get rid of spam. Thus spam takes up a majority of comments and that’s literally all we see.
With an top comment system, this is all you’d get
I still think games need a review system instead of the comments, we could always discuss how reporting, and options on them work. I mean, it would be nicer too limit people too a single review, that they can edit, with options of Recommend or Not Recommend. Then other users can upvote/downvote the reviews. Then make it against the rules too use reviews as spam, like “FREE ROBUX” etc.
Of course, the audience of Roblox is different from Steam, but if it’s designed right, it could be beneficial.
I would personally rather detailed reviews about downsides/upsides of my games then just spam on comments. Even reviews that are not super greatly written can be helpful. As long as it’s clear that it’s a Review system, and spam on them isn’t tolerated, it could be done.
c) 75,000
b) 25% / 75% or a) 10% / 90%
Clearly, the comments on catalog items topping at an amazing speed. You can see ROBLOX assets being commented on every single second! Place comments only happens every hour, day, week, month or so.
As for 75,000 comments per day - I really don’t know. In this situation I simply try sort out the most likely answer. My 2nd guess in this case is e) 95,000