| Unfortunately, the review removal/edit function does not currently PM users about their reviews. Many reviews are reported on a daily basis, few of which are removed, but when I read tons of them every day, it's quite difficult to remember which one might be yours ^^; If I even removed it, that is. So in a nutshell, I have no way of telling you why it was removed (if it was), without more information. |
KinetaMar 26, 2010 11:04 AM
Kineta said: So in a nutshell, I have no way of telling you why it was removed (if it was), without more information. Based on that, I'd say the best thing is for you to post up your review here (if you saved it or have it) and get the mods to read it and tell you why it was removed. |
| Oh well, next time be sure to have a back-up somewhere. |
Kineta said: Unfortunately, the review removal/edit function does not currently PM users about their reviews. That should be fixed so this problem doesn't occur again yeah? lol |
Prayermad said: Actually i've seen negative reviews disappear quite a few times now. It seems that you're not allowed to be critical on this site. You remove someones reviews based on the requests of fanboys, even though the reviews do not break any rules, and you won't even tell the reviewer why. I think MAL is highly at fault here and would appreciate if this issue was looked into (if it hasn't been already?) not only for the the_spectralcat's cause but because I believe in freedom of speech (corny as it may sound) users should not have to back-up their lawful reviews My guess would be that just over active fanbases have this problem.The smaller or less known the anime is, the more it is likely to slide having a negative review. But if you are indeed correct, that would explain why the higher rated anime has not negative reviews. |
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Prayermad said: Reviews are never removed based on opinion; however, they will be removed for trolling.Actually i've seen negative reviews disappear quite a few times now. Prayermad said: People should back up anything they would like to keep that they put onto the internet. Shit happens.users should not have to back-up their lawful reviews |
Prayermad said: Please post examples of reviews you consider to be critiquing anime/manga that have been removed. Saying stuff like this without any proof or examples is counterproductive. For instance, I could say that no non-troll reviews have been removed and you can't prove me wrong.I'm not surprised that even admins on this site are so unreasonable. Are you implying that critique = trolling? they are opposites. |
| The thing is, we will take this very seriously. However if you are raising this issue based on "nothing", we are unable to help you and just be wasting our time. Here's the deal; only a handful of people are able to delete reviews. The DB admins and Xinil. To be honest, we only have one active DB admin (there are some others, but they're hardly active) and Xinil doesn't really delete reviews unless they're being shoved under his face. Take also into account that people don't easily become DB admin, and you'll get the general assumption that DB admins are trustworthy and that reviews don't get deleted for no reason at all. Of course that's an assumption. If you have reason to believe otherwise. If you can actually give us a proper example (even if it's hard to find one), we can look into the issue. As a general rule, reviews don't get deleted because they're "not mainstream" or just plain negative. Reviews are usually left alone in case of doubt. Reviews do get deleted for things like being in a foreign language, if they're not a review, if they're made before the series even started, has excessive vulgar language...things like that. By the way, are you sure you didn't overlook the review you expected to see? Reviews do get sorted by rated usefulness and truncated in case there are too many reviews. Not saying you did of course, but it is a possibility. :) |
| It's also entirely possible that people are deleting their own reviews, maybe they got tired of other members hounding them for what is perceived as a negative review, sending them PMs or something. Maybe they changed their mind about their negative review or simply decided it was time to leave MAL and deleted all of their stuff. It is of course possible that there have been some non-troll negative reviews that got deleted by admins but as you choose to believe it's the admins at fault, I choose to believe it's not and I will continue to believe so until proven otherwise. At that point, we will have something to take seriously. At this point, we don't. ____________________________________________________________________ There are currently 2 reviews for Kimi ga Nozomu Eien that have a score of 1 and 5 reviews for Clannad with a score of 4 or 5. How many negative reviews are we talking about that are missing? |
Prayermad said: Don't worry about it, at least you care :)kuroshiroi said: At this point, we don't. I understand. Sorry for being a bitch in this thread. ;) |
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