Review system broken?

[diaglo]

does that mean the reviews are nerfed now?

 

[Crothian]

does that mean the reviews are nerfed now?

Nope, the standars of the reviews have not changed and enforcement hasn't either. Its just now being noticed.

 

[Michael Morris]

I have to analyze the code to make sure I won't crash it and check Chris' changes before I can do anything. Trust me when I say this does have a high priority and I should have something up and going before the end of January. I can't move onto other projects until this is done.

 

[Morrus]

The basic problem is that, somewhere along the line, the code which allows the review mods to delete reviews got buggy and stopped working. That meant that someone could spam the reviews system with his stance on advertising policies, and it has meant that a bunch of people have been able to post reviews which don't conform to the guidelines (in this case, length - many of those NPCDesigner reviews are comments, not reviews - they're perfectly valid opinions, but not as reviews).

Once we get that bug fixed, we'll be cleaning house. Notmally, a short, one-paragraph review would not last long there, because that's not what the reviews system is designed for. If people want to post short comments, then we have a wonderful messageboard for that sort of thing!

 

[Roudi]

While you're at it, could you find out why some of us have been trouble posting reviews at all? I had to jump through a couple hoops with the system just to get to to accept new products to the database, and now folks cannot add reviews for those products.

 

[Michael Morris]

Again I promise I will look at this - it is #1 on my list of things to do