Even though I think 100 words is a more appropriate way of setting a limit, I wouldn`t mind setting a 300 character min. limit instead. 100 characters are 2 lines, 300 characters would be 6 lines. If you`re able to write 6 lines about an anime, then you`re not a lame n00b who can`t write at all. 6 full lines should keep at least the n00bs out who want to add a review with 'DBZ R0XX!!!!!!! BEST ANIME EVAH!!!!' - which is our main target, imho.
After that, a mod should still check if those reviews are worth being posted, or it should be rated with the review-ranking.
A minimum limit of 500-700 characters would scare a lot of people off, I think. If you want to scare people off, implement this. That way lots of 'annoying' reviews won`t be tolerated in the first place, but it will also scare away some decent reviewers who think they won`t make it to that limit. This way it will only tolerate reviewers who actually know how to create at least a decent review with an appropriate amount of text.
@nwa I didn`t include myself since I consider myself as natural to be a prof. reviewer already
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But actually no; I thought of people who wrote good or useful reviews from my point of view. Including myself would only be my subjectivity, not others. I don`t know how good my reviews are in the eyes of other people, I just think they`re good enough to be there. When a rating system kicks in, I`ll probably see if my reviews are appreciated or not at all.
I still like the idea of having a select group handling all reviews in order to keep the review-section clean and with useful reviews, but I suppose that`s never gonna happen. Therefor I`m looking forward to a working ratingsystem, which is keeping the bad reviews at the bottom and the good ones at the top - in theory that is.
Does anyone share my idea about having 3 reviews as 'main' reviews, while the rest is hidden behind a 'more reviews'-button? Those 'main' reviews will be the three highest ranked ones. Since those will probably make most sense, and will probably give a fair view about the series. I don`t think regular people usually read more than 3 reviews in order to decide to download or not (personally I`d read them all though). If they think they still can`t decide after those three main reviews, it means that those three are not that good after all, and that a 'hidden' review (behind the button) is probably more fit to be a 'main' review.
kidan wrote:That way there is no censor-ship and we could add some nice new stats like most approved / appreciated reviewer.
I like this idea. It makes people competitive about writing
proper reviews, not
a lot of reviews. Including this 'ranking' in the review itself (just below the name/ratings) will make people look at how that reviewer got rated himself and therefor will check out other reviews made by that person if they have a good score.