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| boydegg |
Posted - 08/31/2006 : 21:23:11
Woo hoo!
I can't believe how many of my reviews have been 'dealt with' in the last 48 hours.
Normally it seems like I'm lucky to get 2 or 3 reviews accepted in any 48 hour period, but I've just gone from having about 35 'pending' to only 6 'pending' since yesterday moring!!
Ok - so 10 or so went to the decline bucket. But I've still had close to 20 reviews accepted.
Only problem now is, I've got to fill up that pending list again.
Boydegg
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| 15 L A T E S T R E P L I E S (Newest First) |
| Bernie |
Posted - 09/06/2006 : 23:37:13
merp, merp....
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| randall |
Posted - 09/05/2006 : 19:07:18
As one of the quantity leaders, I feel qualified [and quantified!] to speak up here.
Each reviewer is different. [Thank God for that!] Over time, I've found that when I exceed, say, 10-15 reviews per day, the entertainment value tends to recede. So that's all I ever submit any more, all I've submitted for a long time now, and I'm sure any MERPs reading this are grateful that they don't have to wade through any more of my stuff than that. I'm not necessarily being considerate of the editors, though: I simply don't want to publish a bunch of bland reviews. And in the vast majority of cases, a single review contains my take on any single movie quite well, thank you. But that's just me, and no disrespect meant to any fwiffer who feels differently.
Over time, 10-15 reviews per day equals what I have now on the quantity list. I would like to think that my more recent reviews are of higher quality than my newbie attempts, as it must be for all of us.
I've also taken to heart benj's recent plea for us to think a little more carefully before submitting, not just parroting something that we saw on the screen. So it takes me even longer to come up with that 10-15 daily quota and limit. I don't hold up each of my reviews as a paragon of wit, far from it. But recently I've been trying harder to infuse as many of them as I can with words that deserve a second look. And there's an obvious benefit: when I put more grey matter into reviewing, declines that survive the second pass are rarer than ever. |
| turrell |
Posted - 09/05/2006 : 18:49:29
Just my luck when the MERPs get jiggy I was offline for two weeks - are they still en fuego? |
| damalc |
Posted - 09/01/2006 : 21:16:35
quote:
Originally posted by damalc
he's probably getting the 4 approvals he needs to go ahead right now.
and there he goes |
| Warzonkey |
Posted - 09/01/2006 : 18:01:47
quote:
Originally posted by Se�n
quote:
Originally posted by boydegg
Only problem now is, I've got to fill up that pending list again.
Why on earth would you want to do that? 
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I've got no reviews pending except for Unadded movies. If I find some inspiration I'll write a review. If I don't find any inspiration, then I won't write a review. Is there anything wrong with an empty pending list?
Also...
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Originally posted by Beanmimo
quote:
Originally posted by Se�n
This is self-destructive behaviour....
...Let's not bite the hand that feeds us,folks.
I wouldn't go that far. The pending pile is part of what keeps this site going. Building it up as high as possible before the MERPs knock it over and then we see which way it spills...
...if there wasn't that tension and everybody felt the same wouldn't the site just stagnate?
All hail to the MERPs for their fine work of late!!
I can see both sides of the argument here...
I tend to be quite a slow reviewer. Up to today, I've been submitting on the site for 125 days and have 187 accept reviews, which is almost exactly 1� reviews per day (not counting rejected ones) and those have been accrued at a pretty constant rate. Like Se�n, sometimes I have 'good' days where a few ideas will come to me, and other times I go for days without submitting anything. This is generally regardless of how big my pending pile is.
Having said that, I do TRY to get my Pending pile as large as possible. If I could think of 20 great reviews a day I'd be submitting all 20. Like Boydegg, upon seeing my greatly depleted Pending pile, the first thing I thought was that I'd better get some more submitted. But that doesn't mean I'll lower my standards. I've been trying to think of something since this morning, but nothing has come to me (well, nothing that turned out to be original to the site), so I've not made any new submissions. It's just tough.
As to WHY I want my Pending list as large as I can make it, as Beanmimo suggested, half the fun of this site for me is checking back periodically to see if any of my pending reviews have been accepted (or rejected). With no pendings, I know I'm not going to see my name under a shiny new review when I log in and part of the fun is taken away (and my life feels empty and shallow, like in the dark days before FWFR). But this aspect is not strong enough to motivate me to start submitting dross.
Anyway, I'm determined to think of something worthy before the day's out. Better get scratching my head before the beers come out...
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| Whippersnapper. |
Posted - 09/01/2006 : 16:59:21
quote:
Originally posted by Se�n
quote:
Originally posted by Whippersnapper
Yes, wouldn't it be terrible if people wrote new reviews! 
Yep, if the new reviews made a huge steaming pile of chaff, then I agree!
As Benj says, its not really the numbers any need worry about, its the quality. Maybe some people drop their standards when they write a lot of reviews but personally when I feel inspired - ie I'm in a punning state of mind - I write more reviews and they are better than when I am not inspired, when I also write less.
I think one of the problems is that there is sometimes too much cudos attached to the number of reviews someone has written rather than to their quality.
Now if you'll excuse me, I have another 45 reviews to bash out to overtake MelissaS...
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| silly |
Posted - 09/01/2006 : 15:27:24
I've slowed way down on submitting and seem to have a much higher percentage of my submittals approved.
Can't say for sure there's a correllation, but there probably is.
Thanks to the recent approvals my pending file is empty. Gotta watch some movies this weekend and see if inspiration hits...  |
| ChocolateLady |
Posted - 09/01/2006 : 14:23:17
quote:
Originally posted by benj clews
I think what tends to happen when the backlog goes down is that standards drop.
I start to see things submitted that I don't imagine would have been submitted when there were 100 other reviews already pending for that person. I also see a more scattershot approach to reviewing- three or four rewordings of the same review.
I used to do that scattershot thing, but now I find that if the first version of my review gets rejected, I'll try to re-word it to make it better instead of submitting a bunch of similarly worded reviews. I've even started deleting some reviews which were accepted but now I see are too similar to other accepted ones - both mine and other people's reviews.
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I don't have a problem with shedloads of reviews being submitted as long as you're submitting sensibly- please try to maintain your quality control to help the MERPs keep the backlog low.
Point taken! And I for one will do my best.
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| randall |
Posted - 09/01/2006 : 12:46:47
I agree. It's easy to write four words. But four good ones? |
| Sean |
Posted - 09/01/2006 : 12:21:14
quote:
Originally posted by Whippersnapper
Yes, wouldn't it be terrible if people wrote new reviews!
Yep, if the new reviews made a huge steaming pile of chaff, then I agree! |
| Sean |
Posted - 09/01/2006 : 12:19:01
quote:
Originally posted by boydegg
Sean - I'm a close friend of Benj Clews and I can assure you he's now a millionaire thanks to FWFR. He and his MERPs spend most of their afternoons hanging out poolside at the Playboy mansion, eating grilled swan and drinking pints of humming bird tears. They even pay a slave to count all the cash they've made.
Damn, knew I should've volunteered to be a MERP in 2004! 
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| benj clews |
Posted - 09/01/2006 : 10:11:49
I think what tends to happen when the backlog goes down is that standards drop.
I start to see things submitted that I don't imagine would have been submitted when there were 100 other reviews already pending for that person. I also see a more scattershot approach to reviewing- three or four rewordings of the same review.
I don't have a problem with shedloads of reviews being submitted as long as you're submitting sensibly- please try to maintain your quality control to help the MERPs keep the backlog low. |
| Whippersnapper. |
Posted - 09/01/2006 : 09:45:29
quote:
Originally posted by Se�n
quote:
Originally posted by boydegg
Only problem now is, I've got to fill up that pending list again.
Why on earth would you want to do that?
It's been mentioned by benj in the fourum before that whenever the MERPs get on top of the backlog, people go on a reviewing blitz and FILL UP THE BACKLOG AS FAST AS THEY POSSIBLY CAN! 
This is self-destructive behaviour. I don't think anyone likes having to wait for a week or two for reviews to be processed (as it was recently), but then when the editors clean everything out, reviewers make absolutely sure that they undo the good work as fast as they can and get the wait-time back to 1-2 weeks again as quickly as possible. I know this is what happened last time the backlog was cleaned out, as the wait-time went from 1-day up to 2-weeks very quickly and then stayed there. You just can't help some people.
I've got no reviews pending except for Unadded movies. If I find some inspiration I'll write a review. If I don't find any inspiration, then I won't write a review. Is there anything wrong with an empty pending list?
I've been at fwfr for 3.5 years, which is long enough to know that the site takes a lot of work to maintain. New movies to add (there's a 3-month waitlist just for this). Reviews to process. Reviews on the wrong movie to move. Spelling errors to fix. There's a big backlog of stuff waiting in the Site Maintenance section. How can benj process this stuff and add all the new movies if there's a 2-week waitlist simply for review processing? I wish that some people would stop taking everything for granted. I'm fairly sure benj doesn't make any money out of this site, and that the MERPs are unpaid.
I'd hate to see benj one day say "Fuckit, I've had 6-years of fun here, but now it's taking up too much time and I think I'll pull the plug". (I've got no idea if benj thinks this way or not, but I'd hate to test him on it).
Let's not bite the hand that feeds us, folks.
Yes, wouldn't it be terrible if people wrote new reviews!
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| Beanmimo |
Posted - 09/01/2006 : 09:25:37
quote:
Originally posted by Se�n
This is self-destructive behaviour....
...Let's not bite the hand that feeds us,folks.
I wouldn't go that far. The pending pile is part of what keeps this site going. Building it up as high as possible before the MERPs knock it over and then we see which way it spills...
...if there wasn't that tension and everybody felt the same wouldn't the site just stagnate?
All hail to the MERPs for their fine work of late!!
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| boydegg |
Posted - 09/01/2006 : 08:45:48
Sean - I'm a close friend of Benj Clews and I can assure you he's now a millionaire thanks to FWFR. He and his MERPs spend most of their afternoons hanging out poolside at the Playboy mansion, eating grilled swan and drinking pints of humming bird tears. They even pay a slave to count all the cash they've made.
Damalc - you won't have to worry about me much longer ... when my completed accolades hit 100, I'm bowing out of FWFR and regaining the life I used to have (I've currently got 92 or 93 completed accolades).
Boydegg
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