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boydegg 
"Creator of Grammarman comic."
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 Posted - 08/31/2006 : 21:23:11
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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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Conan The Westy 
"Father, Faithful Friend, Fwiffer"
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Posted - 08/31/2006 : 22:37:58
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quote:
Originally posted by boydegg
Only problem now is, I've got to fill up that pending list again.
Boydegg
Poor MERPs... victims of their own success. |
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Warzonkey 
"Seriously Lo-Res"
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Posted - 09/01/2006 : 00:25:40
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Cor blimey!
Isn't there a song... "Where have all my Pendings gone?" or something like that?
I have work to do! |
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Whippersnapper. 
"A fourword thinking guy."
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Posted - 09/01/2006 : 00:35:07
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My pending was at 100 this afternoon. Now its down to 40, most of those new films!
Well done MERPs, whoever you are. 
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demonic
"Cinemaniac"
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Posted - 09/01/2006 : 00:56:36
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| Yep, my pending pile is clear too - apart from a few new films to be added. Creeping toward the 400 mark slowly and surely... |
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Sean
"Necrosphenisciform anthropophagist."
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Posted - 09/01/2006 : 01:29:43
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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. |
Edited by - Sean on 09/01/2006 01:42:14 |
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rabid kazook
"Pushing the antelope"
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Posted - 09/01/2006 : 02:08:38
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Originally posted by Se�n
I'm fairly sure benj doesn't make any money out of this site, and that the MERPs are unpaid.
Nobody's sponsoring this cool thing? Damg!
Anyhow thanks MERPs! Thanks benj! |
Edited by - rabid kazook on 09/01/2006 02:09:36 |
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Yukon
"Co-editor of FWFR book"
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Posted - 09/01/2006 : 02:36:03
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It's a new record for me -- 50 approvals in one day! And my pending pile is down to 0 except for the films that have to be added.
Thank you to the MERPS! |
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Sean
"Necrosphenisciform anthropophagist."
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Posted - 09/01/2006 : 02:44:25
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Yep all mine were processed too. Thanks to whoever did it. 
Edit: benj is a away for a while, comes back, and then all the reviews are cleaned out. |
Edited by - Sean on 09/01/2006 02:46:11 |
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damalc
"last watched: Sausage Party"
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Posted - 09/01/2006 : 02:47:03
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yeah, thanks MERPS.
that's that new thing called sarcasm.
it's taking everything i've got to stay ahead of boydegg.
the MERPS have been good to me too recently. but damn boydegg's a hustler.
he's probably getting the 4 approvals he needs to go ahead right now. |
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ChocolateLady
"500 Chocolate Delights"
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Posted - 09/01/2006 : 08:31:45
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Originally posted by Whippersnapper
My pending was at 100 this afternoon. Now its down to 40, most of those new films!
Well done MERPs, whoever you are.
Ditto - but the MERPs got ALL of my reviews that weren't for new films. Hurrah!
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boydegg
"Creator of Grammarman comic."
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Posted - 09/01/2006 : 08:45:48
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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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Beanmimo 
"August review site"
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Posted - 09/01/2006 : 09:25:37
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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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Whippersnapper.
"A fourword thinking guy."
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Posted - 09/01/2006 : 09:45:29
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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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benj clews 
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Posted - 09/01/2006 : 10:11:49
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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. |
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Sean
"Necrosphenisciform anthropophagist."
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Posted - 09/01/2006 : 12:19:01
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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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The MERPS are on fire!
