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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.
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.
