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boydegg 
"Creator of Grammarman comic."
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 Posted - 08/27/2008 : 15:41:25
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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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Demisemicenturian 
"Four ever European"
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Posted - 08/27/2008 : 15:48:25
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MERPs cannot do that sort of thing (unless their powers have been changed), only Benj.
I'm not certain that this needed a new thread! |
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boydegg
"Creator of Grammarman comic."
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Posted - 08/27/2008 : 17:28:06
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Hi Salopian
I know there are already lengthy threads with irked FWFRers complaining about the MERPs altering their reviews or making spelling tweaks, but I thought a new thread would have more chance of Benj Clews reading it.
I really don't know why the MERPs are allowed to go altering our reviews anyway. I thought their role was simply to say yes or no to each submitted review. If they don't like how we've spelled something, they should just reject it on the grounds of 'poor spelling' or something to that effect.
Boydegg
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Demisemicenturian
"Four ever European"
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Posted - 08/27/2008 : 17:36:54
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I don't know why they do it either. I think in principle it's O.K. for them to make minor improvements, but as you say that is not the case here.
I just meant that you had already posted a thread just about this review. You could just have re-posted at the end of it. Two threads for one review is a little disproportionate! |
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boydegg
"Creator of Grammarman comic."
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Posted - 08/27/2008 : 19:03:40
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I know what you're saying, but after leaving it a while I noticed nothing more was being said about it.
So I found myself thinking "Wha -? Is that it? Doesn't anyone care about my 'z' to 's' crisis?"
So I figured I'd start a brand new thread in a last ditch effort to get this perversion of justice ammended.
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Sean
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Posted - 08/28/2008 : 01:29:22
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quote:
Originally posted by boydegg
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' ?
The way to get this done is to edit the review so it reads "Gayz", it'll then go back into your pending pile and be processed at some stage. You could always add the comment that you don't want it altered to "Gays". The point is to make the change yourself, that way it HAS been changed and it WILL go through the editorial system rather than posting here and hoping benj sees it and goes out of his way to find the review, edit it, and repost it.
In a nutshell:- make it happen rather than beg and hope it happens.  |
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boydegg
"Creator of Grammarman comic."
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Posted - 08/28/2008 : 06:22:02
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Hi Sean
You're right, of course - instead of whinning about it on the forum, I should resubmmit it. My fear is, it might get rejected second time round.
I've seen threads where people have complained of that ... accepted review is edited - then rejected!
If no one's going to fix it without me risking a reject, I guess I'd rather live with a reveiw I'm not happy with.
So sad how addicted I've become to this site!
Boydegg
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benj clews 
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Posted - 08/28/2008 : 08:10:44
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Best bet of all if you're concerned a resubbed review might get declined is probably to send me a quick email after resubbing it- it's not too hard for me to quickly pop on the site and approve the review then.
Anyway- modified now |
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boydegg
"Creator of Grammarman comic."
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Posted - 08/28/2008 : 10:54:08
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Benj
Thanks once again - this isn't the first time you've personally helped me with a review problem.
Boydegg
(and thanks to whoever voted on it too)
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Demisemicenturian
"Four ever European"
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Posted - 08/28/2008 : 10:59:48
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Originally posted by benj clews
Best bet of all if you're concerned a resubbed review might get declined is probably to send me a quick email after resubbing it
Hhmmm, I would have thought the best bet would be for you to tell the MERPs not to reject reviews which have the comment 'Already approved as "X"' where "X" is insignificantly different from the resubmitted form. |
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benj clews
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Posted - 08/28/2008 : 11:45:49
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Originally posted by Salopian
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Originally posted by benj clews
Best bet of all if you're concerned a resubbed review might get declined is probably to send me a quick email after resubbing it
Hhmmm, I would have thought the best bet would be for you to tell the MERPs not to reject reviews which have the comment 'Already approved as "X"' where "X" is insignificantly different from the resubmitted form.
Not necessarily- the review queueing allocation system doesn't work like that. |
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Demisemicenturian
"Four ever European"
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Posted - 08/28/2008 : 12:26:30
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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.) |
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Whippersnapper. 
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Posted - 08/28/2008 : 12:52:47
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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
"Four ever European"
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Posted - 08/28/2008 : 12:57:05
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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?! |
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benj clews
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Posted - 08/28/2008 : 17:27:55
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Originally posted by Salopian
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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. |
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Whippersnapper.
"A fourword thinking guy."
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Posted - 08/28/2008 : 18:08:16
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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? |
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