This exactly what I do too! Especially when I find new things to read and Im a bit skeptical about reading it. I just go scroll down the comments and topics. I also drop a comment myself and ask if it's worth reading and most of them are blunt with their description and tell you about points in the story that might discourage you from reading. Very helpful!
Yup, the community is what makes Mangago so fun. The fact that you can ask a manga you forgot or ask for recommendations and someone will answer you in just a matter of hours. I assume this is because Mangago is heavily leaning on BL/GL readership so most audiences will have similar tastes so it's very easy asking for opinions. You don't often get such dedicated audience in other aggregator sites
The thing is I hate when people will express dislike to a series, for example, because there is age gap. Then people will go like "ew gross!!" "ew is that grooming" "im dropping this so disgusting" etc. Then the topics will full of these comments and it might cause other people to read it when other people might find it okay to read certain tropes and genres. I'm all for freedom of expression as long as you don't shame people for what they read.
That is true. Sometimes if the story is worth to defend, I tried to explain carefully the good things, hopefully there's someone out there was helped by my words, lol. It's just, while I knew this site is illegl, I just couldn't help but to find this site is more addicting that the legals because of these fitures.
The rating will not always be the real face of its good and bad, it's different for every person. But for real, although I know this illegl site is using bot to stole from other sites and lots of toxic people often annoys me, but the topic and mail column are absolutely the best fitures for me. If I want to read some stories even if the rating is high (>8.5), I usually check the topic column and read how most readers' opinion. And it usually works! I never get disappointed when I found a story with full of compliments from readers even though the story may have few readers. And I was like getting a mail full of recommendations and I just... couldn't thanked them enough.
And I just love mangagosians because in my opinion, mangagosians, especially veterans are really helping me by sparing their time to type what kind of stories they read on topic column. If it's good, they wrote the good things. If it's bad, they really explained the bad things.
That's all, and I'm getting back to read more stories. Ciao!