There was of course a need to eliminate the reflex posting of mere congrats and thankyous (often by people who hadn't even bothered to look at the research), since the few informative comments often got lost in the clutter. Still, couldn't there have been another option besides a total ban?
I guess that the decision to abolish the Comments function was due to its misuse by scammers. For more information, see my contribution to this discussion: https://www.researchgate.net/post/RG_discontinued_Comments_on_research_items/1
See also these discussions:
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Where_should_the_soon-to-be-deleted_ResearchGate_comments_go_and_where_should_we_translate_them_What_are_your_thoughts_on_this_unfortunate_decision
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Researchers_are_not_allowed_to_challenge_the_ideas_that_other_researchers_share_even_positively_is_that_scientific_regression_or_not/1
https://www.researchgate.net/post/New_type_of_scam_New_approach_using_fake_accounts/1
Karl Pfeifer It seems that RG follows "trial and error" method, we remember different scores, rankings... that RG used to use, but they disappeared!
I think the last was disallowing ongoing Projects. I can remember an RG member had added more than 700 ongoing projects to his profile!!!
Also the following link is an example, see the recommendations and read comments. Gaining fame from what?
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