Review word minimum

Why dont we have an unwritten code of conduct until a real one is made? Agree in a thread that we understand and will endeavour to do more than 50-100 word reviews. It is not hard to write 100 words about something if you truely have an opinion on it, if you dont, why review it?

damn those reviews suck balls

Straaange feeling like I seen this topic before. A few times. And I've only been a member a short while. It'd be nice to at least resurrect the old topic and carry on from there. Same people stating the same opinions... here's mine again :)

YES. For a word limit to get points.
NO. For a word limit to write reviews, or anykind of sensor going about deleting one sentence reviews.
NO. For voting against reviews, for the reason Voxy (i think) explained in a previous thread: people would vote for the reviews they agree with & vote against reviews they disagree with.
YES. For an ability to sort reviews based on length etc. This'll keep those people happy, who don't want too see short reviews

It's very easy to write trash in several paragraphs. And I've seen many a review on this site with helpful & thoughtful remarks in just a couple sentences. Generally it's just a matter of example again. It takes some balls to write "Man this movie sux ass i hate it" if the movie already has half a dozen well written, thoughtful reviews next to it. I guess this is the reason we've kept RYM pretty clean of this type of reviews, even though we have an almost everything goes policy. So if you see a review that irks you write a better one.

I know I'm indicting myself here, I've a 0 review count. Should do something about that. But I do like reading'em, so I guess my opinion counts.

That is a good idea Prelude, but it would just cause extra work for the mods which is unneccessary if you just put a code in to prevent such a thing happening. I report reviews quite a lot if they are awful, but nothing gets done. Those reports should find their way to a moderator in the future (after minimum character limits are implemented). Face it guys, you can't review a film in less than 500 characters. Give an opinion maybe, but not a review.

500 characters dude, not 500 words! That's probably about dead on 500 characters/letters. It should be the baseline length of any review that gets rewarded by points.

It's more difficult to filter based on words rather than characters. A character limit that decides whether or not someone's rewarded with points is fine with me. We don't need any reviews deleted.

I still find it annoying that those reviews are there anyway, regardless of if the person gets points or not. And yes, we do need quite a few reviews deleted. It steals the spotlight from those of us who actually take some time and thought to write reviews.

Write reviews and vote on the ones you like. Simple as that.

Face it guys, you can't review a film in less than 500 characters. Give an opinion maybe, but not a review.

Probly right. But the system doesn't necessarily require each review to be THE review. Shorter reviews can give pointed opinions, or highlight certain aspects, and when you read all of them together, that might give you a better picture than reading one man's essay.

rather than min word counts, what if we give mods (there will be more mods coming) power to zap reviews that are pure crap? then we dont have to do word counting or other such things.

Nah. Because what's pure crap? I mean you kinda know but... Rather than relying on rules you're relying on some mods taste. Still mods should zap reviews that are downright insulting or threatning or spam. Like excessive cusswords on a children's movie.

I'm pretty sure these crap reviews appear because there's still a lack of good example. Leaving them as they are, might even provide a good incentive to write better ones. Why don't you all go write one-sentence putdowns of all my fave movies, so maybe I'll get my first review done :)

Face it guys, you can't review a film in less than 500 characters. Give an opinion maybe, but not a review.

Your manner of writing is specious. Of course you can give a review in that amount. It's physically possible. No need to close the flood gates during a drought.

I'm pretty sure these crap reviews appear because there's still a lack of good example. Leaving them as they are, might even provide a good incentive to write better ones. Why don't you all go write one-sentence putdowns of all my fave movies, so maybe I'll get my first review done :)

You've got a point. Some people review, some don't; others are motivated by competition and still others by the lack of it. Essays on every item page can be intimidating for members and make them feel insecure about posting. If they see a crap review, though, they'll be all like Well, it don't get much worse than that and contribute. We don't need to impose on what's appropriate and what isn't because that does more harm than good. Like rubbing your eyes after getting dirt in them.

The way I see it, there should be a standard 25 word minimum on reviews. Then, no points are rewarded if the review is les than 500 characters long, but obviously the review should still stand. Finally, it the review breaches the 500 character limit, then the 50 points should be awarded. Then maybe 100 points awarded if the review is over 500 words.

This isn't about banning members from contributing (more than 25 words anyway!), it's just about properly rewarding those who put more time into contributing more. I have been intimidated by far superior reviews on this site, I guess we should stop grammatically gifted members from writing reviews all together in that case.

zero cussin' in any kids or general audience family films

I think this is the way to go. You'd still wanna be able to use the f-word for the latest Van Damme actioner. Tidying up language for Johnny Thunders or Alice Cooper reviews seems a bit wrong too. Similarly, I've uploaded some trailers and clips for action & horror films that aren't exactly "approved for all audiences". Nothing too gruesome, with guts flying about or anything, but a bit graphic. Also reviews for books, films, albums can deal with more mature subject matter, depending on the audience. So case by case again.

off topic, but related to what Dale said, what if we extract movie rating info from IMDB, and game ratings from amazon, and if anyone doesnt meet the age requirements as dictated by the rating, they would be blocked access to that item page?

When looking over the item page for Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, you may or may not notice images that could be deemed inappropriate (I see one of the pieces of official art I posted has gotten some inevitable views). If blocking item pages is the fastest way for now, it could be a temporary fix. A limited item page should be concocted for those under the moviegoer age so they can still contribute tags and whatnot.

"This ****ing movie was a piece of ****! It was so ****ing bad, it made me want to **** **** out of my ****!"

What portion of that review is inaccurate, Doff?

And "Doff"?

Oi! I have dyslexia. That was apparently my own personal way of saying 'DoK' at the given time...

Well, that's embarrassing. Let's all DoK the very memory of this unfortunate processing malfunction.

no worries folks. spoke to the big man (no, not god... the other big man) and changes are a-comin', so we won't be needing minimum words and such. that would just complicate things and can still be abused by typing LOL 50 times. :)

cheers

Is that as specific as you can be? Stop giving us this BS about a burning bush and tell us how to get to heaven!!

What's happened with this? Or what's going to happen, and when? I mean specifically.

Smart people with autism:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_on_the_autistic_spectrum

I don't understand why you can't satisfy us by saying what's "a-comin'"? Or do you like knowing things others don't, does it make you feel like a man?

AWESOME!

www.listal.com/groups/viewthread/7737/

What about this? Comments could still exceed 200 characters, right? What then?

Pretty bad bugs there. Whenever Tom fixes them they usually take the points away to accomodate. Is that why my reviews on my points page compared to the reviews page don't add up? Best go and compliment a few more people on their 'great reviews'!

Definitely a bug that needs sorting.