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Beanmimo 
"August review site"
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 Posted - 04/01/2009 : 08:55:23
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April fool....weak I know but i couldn't resist it!! |
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demonic 
"Cinemaniac"
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Posted - 04/01/2009 : 14:23:02
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You got me! You doity rat!
*reels and collapses* |
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ci�nas 
"hands down"
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Posted - 04/02/2009 : 21:47:35
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Beanmimo, excuse me if I hijack this topic but it highlights an issue I�ve been conscious of since I started submitting reviews.
A lot of reviews contain spoilers. I have, for example, recently had reviews accepted for Passengers & The Life Before Her Eyes that are flat-out plot giveaways. As it happens these are both weak, derivative movies based on an overworked premise, but I am very aware that seeing these reviews before watching the movies could reduce whatever enjoyment they are capable of giving.
To avoid being confronted with spoilers I never visit review pages until after I�ve watched a movie, & generally I�m wary of scanning the random selection of recent reviews on the home page in case I catch sight of some information about a movie I didn�t want beforehand, as has happened a few times.
No doubt this is a bit late in the day but I was wondering whether people thought it would be a good idea to have some means of highlighting reviews that contain spoilers � by adding a little icon or by being able to activate a colour change or whatever.
(Having said that, it�s difficult or impossible for literate people to notice a small group of words & not to read them. Hence the power of bloody advertising hoardings &c.)
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Yukon
"Co-editor of FWFR book"
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Posted - 04/04/2009 : 15:11:42
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quote:
Originally posted by lamhasuas
Beanmimo, excuse me if I hijack this topic but it highlights an issue I�ve been conscious of since I started submitting reviews.
A lot of reviews contain spoilers. I have, for example, recently had reviews accepted for Passengers & The Life Before Her Eyes that are flat-out plot giveaways. As it happens these are both weak, derivative movies based on an overworked premise, but I am very aware that seeing these reviews before watching the movies could reduce whatever enjoyment they are capable of giving.
To avoid being confronted with spoilers I never visit review pages until after I�ve watched a movie, & generally I�m wary of scanning the random selection of recent reviews on the home page in case I catch sight of some information about a movie I didn�t want beforehand, as has happened a few times.
No doubt this is a bit late in the day but I was wondering whether people thought it would be a good idea to have some means of highlighting reviews that contain spoilers � by adding a little icon or by being able to activate a colour change or whatever.
(Having said that, it�s difficult or impossible for literate people to notice a small group of words & not to read them. Hence the power of bloody advertising hoardings &c.)
Intertesting idea -- change colour of a review if it's a spoiler. Maybe a reviewer can tick a box deeming his/her review a spoiler when submitting it.
My only concern is that if something is a different colour, I think it will attract attention and make everybody read it. |
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Josh the cat
"ice wouldn't melt, you'd think ....."
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Posted - 04/04/2009 : 15:58:35
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The other consideration is what would you do about the existing 286,528 reviews on the site, you can ask current reviewers to go thru their own reviews but who will go thru the rest?
I think that spoilers are just a risk that you take if you choose to read reviews on a film you have not yet seen.
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benj clews
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Posted - 04/04/2009 : 15:59:37
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quote:
Originally posted by Yukon
quote:
Originally posted by lamhasuas
Beanmimo, excuse me if I hijack this topic but it highlights an issue I�ve been conscious of since I started submitting reviews.
A lot of reviews contain spoilers. I have, for example, recently had reviews accepted for Passengers & The Life Before Her Eyes that are flat-out plot giveaways. As it happens these are both weak, derivative movies based on an overworked premise, but I am very aware that seeing these reviews before watching the movies could reduce whatever enjoyment they are capable of giving.
To avoid being confronted with spoilers I never visit review pages until after I�ve watched a movie, & generally I�m wary of scanning the random selection of recent reviews on the home page in case I catch sight of some information about a movie I didn�t want beforehand, as has happened a few times.
No doubt this is a bit late in the day but I was wondering whether people thought it would be a good idea to have some means of highlighting reviews that contain spoilers � by adding a little icon or by being able to activate a colour change or whatever.
(Having said that, it�s difficult or impossible for literate people to notice a small group of words & not to read them. Hence the power of bloody advertising hoardings &c.)
Intertesting idea -- change colour of a review if it's a spoiler. Maybe a reviewer can tick a box deeming his/her review a spoiler when submitting it.
My only concern is that if something is a different colour, I think it will attract attention and make everybody read it.
I've thought about this quite a few times and if such a thing were implemented, it'd almost certainly be an additional job for either the MERPs or other users to flag up. Much as I trust you guys, if checking a box to say your review contains a spoiler means it's less likely to be read (i.e. inviso-text or whatever) and therefore not voted on as much, then I suspect this formality will likely get 'forgotten about' more often than not  |
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randall 
"I like to watch."
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Posted - 04/04/2009 : 18:18:32
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| I'll never forget the time benj told us that, back when he was the only editor, he was judging reviews one day when he came upon one that spoiled the very movie he was sitting in the cinema waiting to see! |
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Beware Spoilers
