Volunteer help needed importing reviews by hand

[Blackrat]

Alright, I'll start tackling them on monday. Couple of observations I already made.

- When I deleted the original review, the site asked me to re-login. Is this intentional or a bug? It did delete it though when I did.
- Is it possible to specify the ratings as N/A in the new review? In some cases it might be quite hard to guess whether the writer liked a product or not.
- As I am only a temporary staff member, and not actually even paying member (which has been a distress to me for the last 1,5 years, since I'd like to support the site but can't) I don't want to take advantage of things. But I noticed that that my permissions has been upgraded to include also PM's and staff-forum. Just to let you know, if I'm not supposed to have those .

 

[Mark]

There seems to be a bunch toward the dead end of the list by Messageboard Golem that are simply placeholders. Are they to be inluced in the update along with their N/A ratings?


*edit* Also, no way to import the comments and attribute them fairly so they have to get dropped, right?

 

[Morrus]

- When I deleted the original review, the site asked me to re-login. Is this intentional or a bug? It did delete it though when I did.

Yep. Mod and admin functions often require to to re-confirm your password to make sure it's a valid request. Security thing.

- Is it possible to specify the ratings as N/A in the new review? In some cases it might be quite hard to guess whether the writer liked a product or not.

It's not, unfortunately. Just make the best guess you can. 5 is average, if the review gives no clue.

- As I am only a temporary staff member, and not actually even paying member (which has been a distress to me for the last 1,5 years, since I'd like to support the site but can't) I don't want to take advantage of things. But I noticed that that my permissions has been upgraded to include also PM's and staff-forum. Just to let you know, if I'm not supposed to have those .

I plan to give you that permanently as a thank you, so don't worry about it.

There seems to be a bunch toward the dead end of the list by Messageboard Golem that are simply placeholders. Are they to be inluced in the update along with their N/A ratings?

Messageboard Golem generally posts the product data, not the reviews themselves. We don't need that. In some cases, where Mike was originally unable to match a review to a poster, Messageboard Golem serves as a default username for a review.

You can usually ignore a thread if it has zero comments, as generally, that thread will only have the product entry, and no reviews. In general - and it is a little scrambled, so this isn't 100% true all the time - a thread is a product, and posts/comments are reviews or comments on reviews.

 

[Morrus]

*edit* Also, no way to import the comments and attribute them fairly so they have to get dropped, right?

Yeah - there's just no way to do it, unfortunately.

 

[Mark]

I see. Thanks.

 

[Morrus]

Just a quick note, guys - the "Feature Until" field is one you have access to with the mod permissions. Unfortunately, it comes pre-filled; so unless you actively alter it to a date in the past, every imported review will be "featured".

I've made the mistake a few times myself; but we don't want 3000 6-year-old reviews "featured", so please keep an eye open for it.

 

[Mark]

I've been using the date when the review was originally posted. I think I noticed that it also resets when you preview, and you have to adjust it again, so keep an eye out for that.

Also, I noticed a comment to a review that was actually quite a decent review (as in substantive), though under messagebard golem, so I promoted it to review status, as well. The shorter comments, and direct comments on other reviews, I am just removing (as per above) since there is no real way to re-attach them to the review they cite and include the original commentors name.

I'll also remove the messageboard golem placeholders for products that do not include a review as I come across them.

 

[Angel Tarragon]

1) Each thread in the old data category is a product. Each post in that thread is a product description, a review or a comment on a review. We only want the reviews.

All right I understand everything. I'm just unclear as to where the data catgegory (forum? sub-forum? thread?) is.

 

[Morrus]

All right I understand everything. I'm just unclear as to where the data catgegory (forum? sub-forum? thread?) is.

I've attached a screenshot. Are you not seeing that? Maybe I have the permissions sent wrong.

 

[Angel Tarragon]

I've attached a screenshot. Are you not seeing that? Maybe I have the permissions sent wrong.

You've got them set right right. I just wanted to make sure of things before I got the fiirdt one done. And it is:
http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?p=4447882