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knockmesilly 
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 Posted - 05/08/2007 : 17:04:21
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who hasn't had a review declined?
and sometimes you think, "this is good," but you find it relegated to the rejected pile, never to see the light of day.
now's your chance. let's have a looksee. put your favorite declined review right here.
raise it from the dead. let it walk the fwfr, a zombie review.
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Downtown
"Welcome back, Billy Buck"
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Posted - 05/08/2007 : 17:14:44
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This topic of discussion is considered offensive to some and is therefore banned. I'd suggest you drop it.  |
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Demisemicenturian 
"Four ever European"
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Posted - 05/08/2007 : 17:37:22
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Alternatively, it's best to join in on one of the many previous threads of the same topic, so that the whole discussion of whether or not to have such a thread at least does not have to happen again.  |
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Whippersnapper. 
"A fourword thinking guy."
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Posted - 05/08/2007 : 17:40:22
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Although this kind of topic is mostly certainly not banned, it's not considered a wonderful idea and won't get a lot of support I guess. A lot of people bitching about their rejections isn't very edifying. It might be more entertaining than a Michael Winner film, but only marginally. 
If you have a review which has been rejected and you don't know why, then by all means post that and other fourumites will try to think of reasons why it never made the grade.
We're here to help. 
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TitanPa
"Here four more"
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Posted - 05/08/2007 : 19:29:52
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quote:
Originally posted by knockmesilly
who hasn't had a review declined?
and sometimes you think, "this is good," but you find it relegated to the rejected pile, never to see the light of day.
now's your chance. let's have a looksee. put your favorite declined review right here.
raise it from the dead. let it walk the fwfr, a zombie review.
I notice he decided to start a thread but didn't give his own review that he felt the need to start this thread. Threads like this end up no good. Either they get Locked or they just die off. I think we are over complaining about declines. Thats why we celebrate approvals more. |
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randall 
"I like to watch."
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Posted - 05/08/2007 : 22:30:46
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| Silly, poke around in the archives and you'll see why this kind of thread tends to garner razzberries. But if you're really smarting over one particular decline, just post the review, and we'll try to sort it out. Sometimes this exercise produces an "a-HA!" which might make your future submissions bigger and better... |
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MguyXXV
"X marks the spot"
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Posted - 05/08/2007 : 23:43:32
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I haven't had a review declined, so I guess I can't post here.  |
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Sean 
"Necrosphenisciform anthropophagist."
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Posted - 05/09/2007 : 02:24:41
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| I don't have any declined reviews that bother me. But, knockmesilly if you want to post one here for analysis then I'll hopefully help show why it got declined. |
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Downtown
"Welcome back, Billy Buck"
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Posted - 05/09/2007 : 02:55:42
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Originally posted by MguyX
I haven't had a review declined, so I guess I can't post here.
Right. I haven't either! |
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Gentleman Ghost
"Brevity: soul of wit."
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Posted - 05/09/2007 : 11:28:10
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quote:
Originally posted by Downtown
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Originally posted by MguyX
I haven't had a review declined, so I guess I can't post here.
Right. I haven't either!
Heh. Well, at least my accepted pile is finally bigger than my reject pile. |
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duh 
"catpurrs"
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Posted - 05/09/2007 : 15:21:09
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Posting just to keep the thread going.  |
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Montgomery
"F**k!"
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Posted - 05/09/2007 : 16:10:19
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Originally posted by duh
Posting just to keep the thread going.
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MguyXXV
"X marks the spot"
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Posted - 05/09/2007 : 17:38:24
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Anybody have a good pecan pie recipe? I've had a couple that I found particularly memorable.
One was a combination sweet potato pie on the bottom and pecan pie on the top. Tasty beyond belief.
The other was a pecan pie with carob in it that I got at a health food restaurant maybe 20 years ago. Something about it was just damned good.
I've had a sticky, gooey one from a local coffee shop that's handily holding its own, but I guess I'm always on the look out. |
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knockmesilly
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Posted - 05/09/2007 : 17:47:27
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let me just start by saying mea culpa.
as a noob to the boards, and may i add, a lazy noob, i had no idea that suggesting the posting of declined reviews was such a controversial issue. truly, no harm was intended, and if i offended anyone with this thread please accept the humble apology of the village idiot.
perhaps an explanation of this thread's genesis and intent may shed some light on my thought process, or, as some may feel, my lack there of.
so i write a review of walk the line and come up with an homage, if you will, to yenser's brilliant review of saving private ryan: Brother gets own bedroom. so my review to walk the line goes: cash gets own bed. (since the lumber saw saw fit, pardon the lame pun, to dispense with johnny's bible reading brother). suffice it to say, it ends in the declined pile.
now my thought process was such-- some declined reviews are still pretty funny, wouldn't it be great to read some of them. in no way was i suggesting with the thread that reviewers post rants about how unfair it was that their review was declined. i even thought the inherent reason behind its rejection might add to the humour of reading it; hell, it might even serve as a teaching tool, i.e. reviewers might learn why reviews are declined by noting what didn't work. but alas, the road to fwfr hell is paved with good intentions.
so, if you will, pardon my offense. i may be the village idiot, but i'm not one to tout revolution.
as penance, i've cut both my hands off at the wrist and am now forced to type all my reviews with, well, let's just say i'm suffering the stiffest of penilties.
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w22dheartlivie
"Kitty Lover"
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Posted - 05/09/2007 : 18:08:11
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| Silly, pick up your hands and sew them back on while there's still a chance of saving them!! I think in some cases, what is apparent to the writer and brilliant to the writer doesn't always translate when read out of context. The homage was a lovely thought. Perhaps part of the problem was that a) it didn't click in the MERPs head and/or 2) () it's not something in the film that really sticks out. I'd forgotten about that occurrence in Walk the Line and wouldn't have understood it without your explanation. Hope that helps. |
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knockmesilly
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Posted - 05/09/2007 : 18:17:15
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"Silly, pick up your hands and sew them back on while there's still a chance of saving them!!"
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i like ur zen paradox: what is the experience of picking up your hands when u are handless.
would it be (c)rude of me to say my head hurts from typing?
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Graveyard of the Declined
