Junchi said: Beatnik said: MAL is slowly and deliberately killing off the old community for a larger new one. Simple as that.This has to be a practical joke right? What the hell has happened to this place? The rampages that have been committed in the last two years are beyond tolerable. "Why am I still using this site?" has been a rhetorical question of mine since months. Indeed, I just can't see how any of the changes have been beneficial for the users who keep this place alive, it's all self-inflicted sabotage pushing people away. MAL used to actually be a community in the truest sense of the word, not this sterile wasteland plagued with oppressive enforcers. Personally I think this place started losing the plot when they changed the naming convention of all titles from English to 'Romaji'. It's the most pretentious weebo shit I've ever seen, making the website borderline incoherent to navigate. |
"I'm starting to think mal is run by Xinil generating electricity on a bicycle." - idklol |
Junchi said: Beatnik said: MAL is slowly and deliberately killing off the old community for a larger new one. Simple as that.This has to be a practical joke right? What the hell has happened to this place? The rampages that have been committed in the last two years are beyond tolerable. "Why am I still using this site?" has been a rhetorical question of mine since months. But where is this new community? All I see is old users leaving. Young people use reddit or anilist. MAL is just digging its own grave here. |
LangleyAsuka said: Exactly. Confusing is basically the new dislike, but it instead pushes bad reviews up. The review system needs another overhaul and I mean just going back to "like" and "dislike". There's no need to overcomplicate this with the reactions. We're already seeing the effect of this terrible system taking place. Now, at the top of every anime review pages we see overwhelming negative reviews written for the sake of manufacturing some kind of reaction, not because they are particularly insightful or helpful. Hell i f a review receive 2000 confused reactions then what business it has being on top? |
Beatnik said: "Hello Beatnik, I'm writing to inform you that one of your reviews has been removed. As stated in the Review Guidelines, all reviews must not address the viewer." This has to be a practical joke right? What the hell has happened to this place? Wow that's terrible, I had no idea about that! The emoji system and hidden scores are pretty bad but I hate to imagine what other crap was done to them over the years. I can't remember ever seeing a single post of positive feedback about the current state of reviews. Also confusing/funny reactions seem like low-key ways to insult the reviewer. A simple dislike or unhelpful vote is enough to say "I don't like this". It definitely appears that a handful of review mods influenced these changes. That could be ok, but unfortunately I don't believe most mods process feedback or share a perspective with the userbase at large- considering that the user feedback is overwhelmingly negative! And often times they respond to such criticism with condescending "here's why we did this" posts that barely address a user's criticism, if addressing it at all. Nor can they ever give a persuasive argument for the changes lol. Seems to be the situation with updates in general at this point, very disappointing. However in fairness I haven't read through all the posts in this thread. |
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Shishio-kun said: Beatnik said: "Hello Beatnik, I'm writing to inform you that one of your reviews has been removed. As stated in the Review Guidelines, all reviews must not address the viewer." This has to be a practical joke right? What the hell has happened to this place? Wow that's terrible, I had no idea about that! The emoji system and hidden scores are pretty bad but I hate to imagine what other crap was done to them over the years. I can't remember ever seeing a single post of positive feedback about the current state of reviews. Also confusing/funny reactions seem like low-key ways to insult the reviewer. A simple dislike or unhelpful vote is enough to say "I don't like this". It definitely appears that a handful of review mods influenced these changes. That could be ok, but unfortunately I don't believe most mods process feedback or share a perspective with the userbase at large- considering that the user feedback is overwhelmingly negative! And often times they respond to such criticism with condescending "here's why we did this" posts that barely address a user's criticism, if addressing it at all. Nor can they ever give a persuasive argument for the changes lol. Seems to be the situation with updates in general at this point, very disappointing. However in fairness I haven't read through all the posts in this thread. Even worse was that some mod decided to remove my decade old review from a random anime that most people have never heard of. Like...why!? How did that benefit the site? All the website's changes over the years have made this place counter-intuitive and downright unfriendly. I'm too lazy to export my list to another place just yet, but it does feel like I'm reaching my limit. I guess it's just the way of things, most websites eventually ruin themselves and die, I mean look at the nonsense going on with Reddit and Twitter lately. The emoji thing is so silly, all we need is an 'agree/disagree' option. |
"I'm starting to think mal is run by Xinil generating electricity on a bicycle." - idklol |
Beatnik said: Even worse was that some mod decided to remove my decade old review from a random anime that most people have never heard of. Like...why!? How did that benefit the site? That's just sad. They should at least have given you time to "improve" (or edit) your decade-old review. |
| One year later still nothing has been fixed. A thread with over 400 replies completely ignored. Dozen of threads in the suggestion board completely ignored. Congratulations! |
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