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| MguyXXV |
Posted - 05/18/2008 : 22:40:01
O.K. Everybody's got that ONE review that's been sitting in the pending pile since the dawn of creation. Like a little baby angel, it waits anxiously to be born  ... or like the scientist at the end of the fly (the original), it begs for a sudden death ("Help me! Help meeee!)"  
Here's my proposal:
Dear MERPs, please help us poor buggers supplicants spruce up our pending piles by letting us get rid of ONE pending review that's starting to mold, and thereby is stinking up the joint.
Supplicants: pick your OLDEST review from the pending pile (or just ONE that you want to move along its way), report the review and the film here in this thread.
Include a plea for mercy. Then let's see what happens.
I would propose the following additional guidelines: Pick only ONE review -- by asking for more, the MERPs should automatically treat you like that greedy little Oliver Twist send the reviews to the end of the line/queue.  Don't be a greedy little pig and ask for more, because you're likely going to screw it up for the rest of us good little piggies!
[I'm just tired of looking at my oldest review, and I don't know how else to get some action on it, especially since it's for a fairly obscure film!]
Obviously, I can't guarantee anything, except another thread where we bitch about the approval process .. BUT ONLY AS IT PERTAINS TO ONE FILM! I'm hoping this modest approach might garner some sympathy. 
The unofficial granted supplication count is as follows:
+1 - MguyX
+1 - lemmycaution
+1 - BaftaBabe
+1 - thefoxboy
+1 - Sludge
+1 - aahaa, muahaha
+1 - Larry
+1 - Beanmimo
+1 - demonic
+2 - hustleboy007
+2 - Salopian
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| Beanmimo |
Posted - 08/29/2008 : 09:54:13
Thanks MERPS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
| demonic |
Posted - 08/28/2008 : 14:05:32
I have a current dilemma that is similar... a review I tweaked a month ago for "Hellboy 2", was subsequently declined following the edit, but is now sitting in my pending pile back in its original state. I can't resub it as a first pass as it will lose the 7 or 8 votes it already picked up. And I really don't want it to sit there for a year. |
| Demisemicenturian |
Posted - 08/28/2008 : 13:58:57
quote:
Originally posted by ChocolateLady
This is pretty strange since I thought the edits of accepted reviews are usually much faster than this.
Really?! At least one of my oldest pending reviews (over a year old) is a previously approved review with a tiny spelling amendment (not a correction of course), and that doesn't buck the trend in my experience.
Like you, I have previously resorted to deleting my pending reviews and resubmitting them. However, (i) I rarely have room for this as I have to resubmit so many reviews that are rejected for stupid 'reasons', (ii) there is the risk of someone else having submitted a similar review between the two submissions and (iii) it is just plain annoying to have to resubmit reviews later in order to get them approved earlier. |
| Beanmimo |
Posted - 08/28/2008 : 13:43:05
... and back to the original reason for this thread.
Robocop 3 Pimp my Robocop.
When the Policemachineman is being chased in the latter half of the movie he steals a pimp's car and drives around in it for a scene or two.
That's been in my pending pile since january of this year before anyone asks.
And it's on it's second pass so if it's declined now I'll take like a Bean. |
| Whippersnapper. |
Posted - 08/24/2008 : 13:38:55
I appreciate you don't have the answers Chocky.
However, Benj does, and I would consider it a personal favour if he would provide the answers as best he can.
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| ChocolateLady |
Posted - 08/24/2008 : 10:08:20
I have no answers to your questions, Whipper, but I do it anyway - perhaps because I don't trust cyberspace any more than I trust my washer and/or dryer when it comes to socks.
My biggest problem today is one review I don't want to re-submit. You see, I decided I wanted to change one of my recently accepted reviews and its been stuck in my pending list for a couple of weeks. This is pretty strange since I thought the edits of accepted reviews are usually much faster than this.
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| Whippersnapper. |
Posted - 08/23/2008 : 13:06:07
I think thats very practical, but some of us nearly always reach our 20 reviews a week, so it doesnt help us that much.
Anyway, why should that be necessary? What exactly is this "shuffle" they get lost in? This is a computerized database, right, not a big sack with some holes in it?
Is it really unreasonable to ask for this situation to be addressed so its a little more equitable? Can it really be so hard to do?
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| ChocolateLady |
Posted - 08/23/2008 : 12:52:53
Personally, if I see I'm not getting up to my 20 reviews, I take an old pending one, delete it and submit it with (hopefully) a better explination. I figure some of the older first pass ones have gotten lost in the shuffle and better to just start all over with them. |
| Whippersnapper. |
Posted - 08/23/2008 : 10:31:35
OK, let's put it another way: why don't we do something about this problem?
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| MguyXXV |
Posted - 08/23/2008 : 06:49:29
Sad, but true.  |
| Demisemicenturian |
Posted - 08/23/2008 : 06:15:59
It's clear that first-pass reviews are presented in some obvious/immediate way to MERPs. Like napper says, they are frequently approved within minutes. If one isn't processed rapidly, it seems to become less likely to be processed than any newer submission. |
| MguyXXV |
Posted - 08/23/2008 : 03:57:24
I'm not benj (but I play one on T.V.). I think the reason is kind of random. Benj once explained the rotation of reviews through the approval cycle, and I don't remember the methodology, but I do recall that there was some logical explanation.
THere: how's that for information!  |
| Whippersnapper. |
Posted - 08/22/2008 : 15:44:29
I now have 8 second-pass reviews which are more than a year old.
This number would be considerably greater had I not deleted several reviews, in some cases just giving up on them and on other occasions re-submitting as new, some of which were then accepted in a matter of a few minutes.
Benj, why is this?
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| MguyXXV |
Posted - 08/22/2008 : 15:08:11
Don't ask me: ask the MOIPS. My guess is they will either grant your request or decline them. As for me, my oldest is only a few months old now, so I'm content to wait for the time being.
Not saying I won't come back with cap in hand though . . . . |
| Beanmimo |
Posted - 08/22/2008 : 13:46:18
Please sir, can I have some more? |
