Review system broken?

[TheLe]

Is it normal to have five 5-star reviews of the same product appear on the same day, back-to-back? Three of the reviews were only a couple sentences long.

While am not questioning the legitimacy of the reviews, something does seem odd about it.

I have been very concerned with ENWorld's review systems ever since I received those bogus 1-star reviews that were on the front page for over 3 days. The lack of oversight or ability to remove reviews makes me believe that it is easy to abuse.

~Le

 

[Old Fezziwig]

Is it normal to have five 5-star reviews of the same product appear on the same day, back-to-back? Three of the reviews were only a couple sentences long.

And all three of the posters that posted those three short reviews had one or two posts to their name.

 

[Arnwyn]

I think it's broken - there seems to be serious problems with the review system for quite a while, and it's only been getting worse.

 

[Old Fezziwig]

There is this, too, of course (found it via lior shapira's thread in General). It doesn't really shed too much more light on the situation, but might explain things a bit.

 

[Pinotage]

There is this, too, of course (found it via lior shapira's thread in General). It doesn't really shed too much more light on the situation, but might explain things a bit.

I can't access that link - something about insufficient member or somesuch. What does it say?

Thanks!

Pinotage

 

[Crothian]

The Review has been not working right for almost a year now. There have been improvements and things fixed there, but there are still problems. I'm hoping Chris or Spoony can solve this latest problem for us.

 

[Old Fezziwig]

Sure. I guess the fora require registration. Basically, Vascant's calling for reviews (post dated 12/21/05 at 2:26 PM).

If anyone has not noticed NPC Designer is now also available at ENWorld Game Store, this also has opened up room for some reviews. In 5 months the only person who has really given any kind of a review has been Mr Cook on his own site, be nice if some other users would share their honest review NPC Designer.

The link: http://www.enworld.org/reviews.php?do=product&productid=1605 06

 

[Pinotage]

The Review has been not working right for almost a year now. There have been improvements and things fixed there, but there are still problems. I'm hoping Chris or Spoony can solve this latest problem for us.

Wasn't the idea that all reviews posted get viewed by moderators before being submitted to the reviews database? Or at least that's what I gathered from the reviews page.

Pinotage

 

[Pinotage]

Sure. I guess the fora require registration. Basically, Vascant's calling for reviews (post dated 12/21/05 at 2:26 PM).

Ah, OK, thanks. Still, I think people should differentiate between comments and reviews. I don't think you can add comments to ENWorld Gamestore, although you can rate a product, something which is also open to abuse.

Pinotage

 

[Crothian]

Wasn't the idea that all reviews posted get viewed by moderators before being submitted to the reviews database? Or at least that's what I gathered from the reviews page.

Pinotage

We read them all but not before they get posted. RPGNet does that and I like that but doubt we can set something like that up.