The Dink Network

I noticed that on Tal's page a score of
0.10 is still considered excellent.
Interesting.
And on my page, a score of 0.50 is actually
considered good.
Intriguing...no?

Um, that's the "type" of review (i.e., long), not the score...

It means it is an excellent (as in large) review, but not neccesarily an excellent game.

Ohhhhh.So ALL of Tal's reviews are excellently
done.I smell conspiracy!

I love to write, and I love to write elaborately. I just don't do it too often.

Not really a conspiracy, Tal's reviews are long, so.. that's the thing. Originally the reviews were rated by looking at their length and now we call that Excellent or Good

aah, those reviews are too long... it's painful reading them. :S

the whole excellent and good or short and long thing is a little silly, it would be better if we could rate the reviews and the best would be up and the worst down.

In other words we can have reviews for D-mod reviews?

That sounds like a circular problem.

Sincerely,
The Vault Dweller

No, just a score... I like the idea (and have seen it before, I think).

But who would review the reviews of the reviews?

"Is there a neverending ring of mailmen delivering mail to other mailmen" not sure where I first heard that...

All I have to say is make people pay to put a review up...like twenty pushups or twenty dollars, then only the strong reviews would survive...

How about... no?

I volunteer to review the reviews of the reviews.
But only if I can give my reviews 'excellent' ratings.

If everyone agrees...

Hey, is this a review of the DMOD? Or is it a review of the review of the review of the review of the review of the review of the review?

*downs a shot of whiskey* I've never been so lost in my life, lol

When/if I become the Benevolent Leader of the Dink Network, maybe I'll put you on staff to validate reviews. Then you will truly know what a painful review is.

Hmm, you could not just validate all the reviews and let anyone rate them instead..? Well, I know a lot of bad reviews would not be rated.

If everyone agrees, the Dink Network would end. It all happens when people write thousands of reviews of hundreds of reviews of tens of reviews of the DMOD itself, this consumes a lot of space, soon TDN will reach its limit of storage, then the new reviews come in and all those reviews squeezed into TDN will eventually push out hard enough that it will make a big cybernova-like explosion that results in a giant hole that sucks in anything foolish enough to go to www.dinknetwork.com. The end is near...

*eeek* I was joking! I don't wanna review stuff!
Leave me alone! You can't make me do it!!
*runs away screaming*

Muhaha finally a way to destroy the earth in such a way the justice league will never be able to stop me...muhahaha

I don't want to be too cocky and say that staff members have a better sense of judgment than anyone else, but what I'm afraid of, is this:

Review by SuperDinkBoy of Pilgrim's Quest: "this game was the best!! I couldn't stop playing it! it's good! 9.9"

His friend Bobby then rates the review a 9.9, "TEEHEEHEE SuperDinkBoy is my friend that's always right!!"

Blah.

Also, I doubt that many people would care to review reviews anyway, and would instead look at the average review score highly distorted by the crappy reviews.

/may have to think about this more (not in a clear state of mind)

Destroy the earth? WORSE! It will destroy Dinking itself!

So...what sorts of reviews are bad and actually had to be witheld by the staff? I'd like to see some of the rejected one's.

Sincerely,
The Vault Dweller

Isn't it strange that sometimes we find entertainment in how BAD a DMOD/review is?

I have respect for some of the people who review their own dmod objectively...

First of all, let's go over the qualifications for reviews, for those of us who don't know or don't pay attention:

A 'Good' review will generally have at least one good point on why they thought the file was what they rated it. If the review just doesn't make any sense, it will be invalidated. Good spelling and grammar help, but aren't required.

An 'Excellent' review will generally describe the reviewer's position on several aspects of the file. Good spelling and grammar are required. It should also have a good layout... if there aren't any new lines, for example, it would be marked as 'Good'.

Granted, there are some reviews that are Excellent that should probably just be Good (and in very rare mishaps, vice versa), and there are some reviews that in my opinion shouldn't be passed in the first place, but generally we go by those qualifications.

Some examples of bad reviews are:

- Reviews which are gibberish (a recent review of 9 Gems of Life only consisted of the brilliant remark, "dvbccb")

- Reviews which appear to be search engine queries stuck in the wrong form, such as "Pilgrim's Quest walkthrough"

- Reviews which are incredibly short and don't really explain what's good or bad about the file, such as the following:

Prophecy of the Ancients
9.9
This game rocked! nuf said!

Agathain Sea Traders
6.0
It isn't very good.......

- Reviews with scores but without any text to back them up

- Reviews where people forget to adjust the default score of 9.9, and it's obvious that they don't want the file to be awarded as such

- Reviews with absolutely horrible grammar

- Reviews with insufficient spacing

- Reviews with a strange assortment of unusual characters (such as a recent review including many instances of ¡K and ƒ¼)

- Reviews which are biased, way too praising, or way too critical

- Reviews where it's made clear that the author did not finish using the file, such as cases where people send in reviews for Pilgrim's Quest while only having played half the D-Mod (Exceptions are made when the user absolutely cannot pass a certain point due to a bug or whatnot)

And possibly, maybe, there are more types that I did not think of.