| T O P I C R E V I E W |
| Demisemicenturian |
Posted - 05/12/2008 : 01:00:11
As I have mentioned repeatedly, I often experience older reviews being rejected as too similar to newer ones. As well as far from rarely happening against other people's reviews, this also happens against my own. If a later variant is approved, I usually resubmit the earlier one, which I invariably prefer, just as I do when a later one is approved for someone else.
I recently resubmitted a case of this with the comment "A LATER approved review is too similar, so this one should be approved instead. Got 'too similar'!" (I had already resubmitted once since the approval of the newer review, so added the last three words for the re-resubmission.) The older one has now been rejected again with "Too similar to one of yours. Try editing it or deleting it." Now, I didn't mention in my comment that the later review was mine. However, (i) overly similar reviews are no more allowed for different people than the same ones, so it's of no relevance, and (ii) we are not allowed sufficient characters to be including irrelevant information.
Did the MERP read my comment? If so, my own newer review is the only one I could have been referring to, so why the response? |
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| Demisemicenturian |
Posted - 06/23/2008 : 07:49:42
The review from the top post has been rejected again! It didn't have Too similar this time, but can the MERP not understand that if it is basically identical to an already-approved review then they should treat it as being valid? I appreciate that they probably cannot deal with similar-review issues, but shouldn't they leave it pending for Benj to deal with?  |
| Demisemicenturian |
Posted - 05/21/2008 : 19:08:27
I just thought I would look up my score-times-ignored wording, in case anyone imagined that it was unclear or rude: "My review was *before* X's (and was still pending when his/hers was approved)." (I named X and he/she had only one review for the film.) All the rejections were for 'Too similar', i.e. it wasn't the case that mine was fractionally more borderline. |
| Demisemicenturian |
Posted - 05/21/2008 : 18:55:39
Moved here because this is where it is actually relevant:
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Originally posted by benj clews
The basic fact is, most issues raised in the fourum can be resolved by simply resubmitting with further explanation.
The problem is when those explanations are just ignored. The unambiguous explanation I gave with the example above was ignored twice in succession, and there was that case where the explanation with my review was ignored literally about twenty times. (In that case, once my older 'too similar' review was eventually passed, the newer one was allowed to stay!) |
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