Simply put, there are a LOT of trolls here on FFXIAH, the comment and rating system is just so abused. I have seen perfectly reasonable comments sub defaulted with no explanation whatsoever. Even people stating facts have been rated down and rated down hard... why? It's not just in small numbers either, rate downs usually seem to be in huge numbers per comment and they are just spread out all over the entire site and across every server.
I do believe that everyone should be allowed to express whether they agree with someone or not, but it's gotten pretty ridiculous. The majority of users here just randomly rate down comments for no reason at all.
How about some sort of system that would cut down on all the senseless clicking here? Perhaps you have to have at least one (or two) lvl 75 job(s), or be a certain rank, or a certain level in crafting...or hell even a combination of those three. Depending on how many of those criteria you meet you would be allowed a certain number of rate up or downs per day. If you don't meet any of them...you can't rate, simple as that.
Just a few rough ideas for an improvement. I would just like to be able to read helpful comments from other users without immediately being led to believe that their comments are spam >.>