I found your review to be very useful and great. You managed to build the review properly without some sort of scaffolding (scoring system).
Hurray!
Thank you. :3
And amusing thing to mention about that game is also that I now pwn slightly at it. Once practice is acquired, maneuvering is really quite easy~ People who spam it with complaints about controls and hardness are just so... Ugh... Impatient fools~ (Fools for making spam comments.)
Also...
Since I just read through the thread, here's some replies to everything I found was something to respond to. :P
If you find my comment there will be two of them. This was caused due to browser problems. If you are going to vote up for it, vote up the one with the larger text.
Deleted the non-upvoted one. No merit, since I found it via this thread.
Two: NEVER state the section you are judging. Mods don't like comments that are;
Pazx I do the section thing as well. Unless you get written proof from a mod, posted here, I will not believe you.
I don't like the whole separation into sections thing, because as Pazx said it is likely to ruin the flow of the review and just make it a: rawr, blah, quabble, thraa. No connection between the points.
It
can be done so it actually improves the review, but I can't say that happens often at all.
Basically, going down a list of points is fine, it helps you remember all the things you might wish to write something about, but if you have an invariable set of headlines that you fill out regardless of content value, it just makes it look stiff.
It's still advertising you comments, which is basically pointless,,, Advertising it to users who will most likely vote them ALL up.
Lol, 'cause that makes a difference. Up-voting only makes the text of a review a little bit bigger, and is mostly a function that makes the writer feel good about their review if they see that it has been upvoted. It doesn't really make that big of a difference to mods, since we scroll through all the comments anyway, and merits tend to stand out against the spam.
Upvoting would be more meaningful if there was little to no spam, a lot of averagely good comments of a decent length, and only few of actual merit value. That's just not how it is. :<
imo advertising is promoting an object, now this object can be critisized and changed but any talk about it whatsoever is advertising..
EX You say to your friend: man this ShamWow is great! - thats advertising
your friend says: really? mine was a piece of crap.. - thats a negative advertisment
In a way that is correct, but there's a big difference between doing something for the sake of advertising, and advertising as a side effect of talking about a certain something.
Look, guys. Even if you show each other your comments, and you go vote them up, this is basically begging for a merit. It is pathetic. If a mod sees these they will NOT give you those merits.
True~ I think it's nice that you try to help each other out, or want each other to read the reviews you write.
It's actually a shame that we can't say "Hey look, I made this review here, what do you think of it?" and everyone goes "no advertising!!!!11oneeleven"...
It isn't begging for a merit unless you shove it in the face of a mod or admin. Or make a thread just to show off a review you wrote.
In the words of Zophia "You do not write a merit, you write a good review, and maybe it will be rewarded with a merit."
Took that one from memory, yes?
You do not write a merit. You write a review, and maybe it will be rewarded with a merit.As Skater said, that's how it works. I just wanted to fix the quote. X);
I use a rating system for my reviews. You do not have to, but sometimes it will be better to use one.
I think a lot of people really do not need to add ratings to their reviews. Also, I was surprised to see a review who said 8/10 was average while 8,5/10 was great...
On a 1-10/10 rating, 5 is average. Anything below 5 is negative, anything above is positive. 10 is, liek, teh greatest game evar!, 0,5 is the worst rubbish of a game you've ever seen. I mostly rate games between 3,5 and 8,5, rating less if I really think it sucks, rating more if it's likely to end up in my favorites once I'm done rating it...
However, many people seem to think 0,5 is BAD and 10 is GOOD, and they don't really bother with whatever is in between.
That could be another purpose for this thread. Usually comments (whether they are good or not) are drowned in a sea of spam. Those comments who become merits, are lucky enough to be spotted before they disappear.
Actually, we have to swim through that sea of spam to spot merits. Most of the time, that is. I have
once given a merit to a comment five minutes after it was posted.
Hmm, did any mods look at this thread so far? I'm quite suprised they haven't started visiting. *Waves to Strop, Shouts at Zophia, Hollers at Devoidless* And yeah the title should be changed.
Just because we don't post, doesn't mean we're not around~
Also, why shout at me? :<
As Carlie said (Quoted For Truth):
As long as this thread is for constructive improvement of comments, it can stay around. However, if it starts to get into more of an advertising angle with people wanting their comments up-voted or merited, we will have to shut it down. So please just keep it on topic, and it should be fine.
