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| boydegg |
Posted - 08/27/2008 : 15:41:25
I'll give this one more shot ...
Could Benj or a MERP please change my 'Gays in the Hood' review to 'Gayz N the Hood' ?
I don't know why a MERP decided to change the spelling of my originally submitted review, and I wish they hadn't. I'd much rather it to be accepted the way I submitted it.
Thanks if you can help
Boydegg
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| Whippersnapper. |
Posted - 08/29/2008 : 10:32:16
Lose the chickens? |
| Sean |
Posted - 08/29/2008 : 08:21:22
Well at least benj doesn't use penguins for minefield detonation. 
<=== And if he did I'd set my attack penguin on him!  |
| w22dheartlivie |
Posted - 08/29/2008 : 07:46:18
quote:
Originally posted by MguyX
NOT THE CHICKENS????!!!! 
But we do have to be mindful of the vegans and animal rights advocates around us. Let's substitute toads for the chickens. |
| MguyXXV |
Posted - 08/29/2008 : 07:11:10
NOT THE CHICKENS????!!!!
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| benj clews |
Posted - 08/29/2008 : 02:05:29
quote:
Originally posted by Salopian
quote:
Originally posted by BaftaBabe
I'm sure I'm not the only one here who is sad that you seem so unhappy lately. I hope you feel better soon.
I'll feel perfectly fine just as soon as the absurdly chaotic and opaque system is sorted out.
Oh alright then- we'll lose the chickens. |
| Demisemicenturian |
Posted - 08/29/2008 : 02:01:05
quote:
Originally posted by BaftaBabe
I'm sure I'm not the only one here who is sad that you seem so unhappy lately. I hope you feel better soon.
I'll feel perfectly fine just as soon as the absurdly chaotic and opaque system is sorted out. |
| benj clews |
Posted - 08/29/2008 : 01:51:34
For the record, when reviews are resubbed, they get sent down a series of tubes, kicked by a big boot on the end of a stick into a random selection of buckets which then spill the reviews onto a big fan. The fan blows the reviews onto greased chickens which then run across a mine field. The reviews that reach the other side on unexploded chickens get washed off and down a big waterfall into a big roulette wheel. The reviews that settle into Red 6 get approved, the reviews in Black 9 get declined and the rest are randomly approved by this week's bingo winner from Streatham's Happy Place Nursing Home. |
| BaftaBaby |
Posted - 08/29/2008 : 01:38:50
I'm sure I'm not the only one here who is sad that you seem so unhappy lately. I hope you feel better soon.
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| Demisemicenturian |
Posted - 08/29/2008 : 01:24:08
quote:
Originally posted by benj clews
I said the review queueing allocation system doesn't work like that. In other words, the way reviews are distributed across my and the MERPs' queues doesn't guarantee someone other than myself will get it for reapproval. Nobody, except you, brought up this idea that comments are just sent off into the ether and never seen, much as it would make a nice conspiracy theory.
What's that got to do with the price of fish? I was talking about comments being ignored and previously approved reviews getting rejected. I therefore assumed that your "doesn't work like that" was to do with comments being available or not (or jokily MERPs not being able to remember a general instruction). Whom comments go to makes absolutely no difference to my point, as you can clearly see if you read the above posts.
However, I have previously asked whether reviews go back to the same MERP, because of the fact that they now sometimes ask direct questions and there is not always room in the comment to keep the explanation already there and add the answer to the question. This didn't receive a response. |
| benj clews |
Posted - 08/28/2008 : 20:56:07
quote:
Originally posted by Whippersnapper
For resubs, is it any advantage to put in the note what the original review was, or is that automatically seen anyway by the MERPs?
Yep, we get a history of the review basically so you shouldn't need to include the original. |
| Whippersnapper. |
Posted - 08/28/2008 : 18:08:16
For resubs, is it any advantage to put in the note what the original review was, or is that automatically seen anyway by the MERPs? |
| benj clews |
Posted - 08/28/2008 : 17:27:55
quote:
Originally posted by Salopian
quote:
Originally posted by benj clews
Not necessarily- the review queueing allocation system doesn't work like that.
What, it doesn't work so that they can read the comments? What is the point of writing them then? Or it doesn't work so that they are able to hold a general instruction from you in their heads? (Those are the only two variables here.)
I said the review queueing allocation system doesn't work like that. In other words, the way reviews are distributed across my and the MERPs' queues doesn't guarantee someone other than myself will get it for reapproval. Nobody, except you, brought up this idea that comments are just sent off into the ether and never seen, much as it would make a nice conspiracy theory. |
| Demisemicenturian |
Posted - 08/28/2008 : 12:57:05
quote:
Originally posted by Whippersnapper
And why pick an argument with a review which is more specific than the original which was already accepted?
This is just what happened to my "2 much 2 bear" replacing "Bear repeating" (i.e. declined as too generic when it was in fact less generic).
And I really do wonder about the comments. I have frequently written the comment "This is older than X's review" only for my review to still be rejected as a duplicate.
If MERPs cannot see the comments, what is the point of them?! |
| Whippersnapper. |
Posted - 08/28/2008 : 12:52:47
Recently I decided to improve one of my reviews for "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" from "Turtle crap" to "Turtle pizza crap".
As always I put in the notes what the original review was (although I don't know if this is necessary).
The new review was refused on the grounds it was too generic and could refer to any of the TMNT films.
Of course it could, but as my review applies to the first of the franchise we all know that doesn't matter. So why doesn't the MERP know this?
And why pick an argument with a review which is more specific than the original which was already accepted? Was the MERP aware that it was a re-write, and could they read my note?
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| Demisemicenturian |
Posted - 08/28/2008 : 12:26:30
quote:
Originally posted by benj clews
Not necessarily- the review queueing allocation system doesn't work like that.
What, it doesn't work so that they can read the comments? What is the point of writing them then? Or it doesn't work so that they are able to hold a general instruction from you in their heads? (Those are the only two variables here.) |
