Review/Recommendation Moderators Announced!

Veronin said:


"Hopefully" and "next few months" don't leave me very optimistic. The votebombing issue pretty much makes MAL reviewing a waste of time, as one troll has made it their mission to destroy every active writer on this site. I can't write another review right now, for example, because it will inevitably result in all my reviews being unhelpful bombed again.

The new review moderators are cool and all, but that only gets rid of the spam and blatant trolling. The main issue still remains, and as far as I can tell, we're never going to see it fixed.

IntroverTurtle said:

Then why are you asking if there's a fix yet and why are you still writing reviews if you so believe it won't ever get fixed?

IntroverTurtle said:
That's how you feel and it's fine, doesn't change that she's addressed it. I think reviews are partly written for yourself so I don't see it as useless, their downvotes can't affect the words in your post. And it's your choice on whether to continue for now or if you'll wait for Xinil to implement it, If you keep then, then when Kineta is able to delete the troll accounts, all your reviews will rise.

Then why are you asking if there's a fix yet and why are you still writing reviews if you so believe it won't ever get fixed?

Veronin said:


A review is written for an audience. A blog or a journal is written for yourself. It's natural to want to share your opinion with other people, and when you put three, five, or even ten hours into writing a review, don't you want at least a tiny reward for it? I'm in university now and can't really justify spending hours per review when one child has the power to destroy it a day later. My only option right now is to wait a few more weeks and hope that he'll have gotten bored by the next time I write one.

TallonKarrde23 said:
Your review is not "destroyed" by votes on a website. The content is still 100% the same. If you are writing purely for 'more people to see it' then you are writing for the wrong reasons as no writer would ever write simply for the view count, which is admittedly a whole different conversation so I won't get into it. The point is the content is unchanged no matter how many negative votes it gets. Acting like a billion downvotes makes your writing quality somehow get worse is just inaccurate and you blowing something insignificant out of proportion.

If people like your writing or feel you have something worth reading, they will find your reviews - whether they are on the front of the anime's page or not.

If you are purely writing for attention then I'd still, as always, suggest rethinking that. Otherwise, stop caring about the votes, you get actual feedback plenty through other means.

Veronin said:


It eliminates any point in writing [...] when [it] reaches nobody..

TallonKarrde23 said:


Better start working for Kotaku with that kind of thinking. Rev up that click bait.

Kineta said:

Hidden_Joker

Veronin said:
It eliminates any point in writing a review when your review reaches nobody. People write reviews because they want other people to see it. Reviews are inherently a form of consumer protection. Without an audience, there is no review. If that is attention-seeking to you then feel free to believe so.

And MAL has designed the reviewing system in such a way that helpfuls/unhelpfuls determine whether or not your review is seen by anybody. When one kid comes and votes down all your reviews 15-20 times over night, you have a damn good reason to be pissed. Reviews are very personal. It's like an author writing a book and not caring if it succeeds or fails. Doesn't happen. Every single reviewer on this site cares how their reviews are received. They would write on a blog if they didn't want feedback.

Nope_ said:
Congrats babe.

Peiale said:

I'm trying to have my expectations as low as possible, to be honest.

saka said:
I'm glad we were able to find some gullible qualified users who want to help keep the reviews and recommendations clean. The anime database here on MAL is one of the most important site features and flippant or trolling content shouldn't be cluttering it. Welcome all the new mods and I hope to see you around.

saka said:
gullible qualified users

Nidhoeggr said:
Have fun, guys.
I will do my daily duty and report a dozen reviews per day. Shouldn't be too hard.

Btw, do you consider KNIM 10/10 a troll review? :P

Maffy said:


I personally would cause it doesn't deserve anything near 10 :I I've suffered so much the past year!!!... THAT being said, if your review is actually legit and writen properly, we cannot delete something just because we don't agree with it (and thus, die slowly inside) <: So no, the numbers themselves don't matter if you are serious about them <:

And please, let it be hard! xD

Hidden_Joker said:


I just wonder how Seo will end it...

Will he troll until the very end?
It's getting a 9-10/10 from me though.. >_>

Demi_V said:
Since I can't post links to the guidelines on user's profiles anymore, I'll be bugging the heck out of all of you with these reports. Lol, I hope explanations like "This user is unaware of the Review/Rec Guidelines" is good enough.

Zelot said:

I've been posting "Too early" since most of them are like that.

Demi_V said:

Really? I've been skipping those. As far as the "Too Early" ones, I thought they were automatically removed anyway.

Snakes said:

Please continue to report as you like. Though I'm sure I can speak for all review moderators when I say that more specific report explanations are always appreciated. Though you are not required to write anything and we can work with whatever you give us. To put it simply, being able to read a report description that gives us clearer info as to why it should be removed/edited always helps.
Anything point form is great. Specifically quoting the guidelines the review was not following is a bonus.

Reviews which are written for anime before their allowed time (episodes currently aired) are not automatically removed from MAL. Please continue to report them. If you report one of these reviews stating that it was "too early" or "written before its allowed time" that is enough information as we will be removing such reviews regardless of any other review guideline related content. Of course we can easily find that out ourselves too. :P

Hope that insight helps.

Kineta said:
If you are interested in the position, I suggest that you keep reporting reviews/recommendations with useful comments illustrating your knowledge of the guidelines and perhaps there will be a place for you on the team sometime in the future.

Nidhoeggr said:

You sure you are the right guy for the job? :P

Shuhan said:
Wow Kineta, you actually picked competent users. I'm surprised.

Snakes said:


That's the nicest thing anybody has ever said about me...

:')

Shuhan said:
Wow Kineta, you actually picked competent users. I'm surprised.