Black Metal
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myk said:
In reality, he was generous (in addition to bothering to take the responsibility to prepare the T/nC issue in the first place). He could easily have deleted the paragraph, modified it, or outright rejected your review.
If its his own column, I wouldn't specify it as generous-- since he ultimately has control over it. It would be a mistake though to remove it since for the most part, every map I test is a complete throughout test. On top of that, I give multiple paragraph reviews informing everyone as best as I can. I have more sentences than some people have words in reviews, and on deathmatch maps I go out of my way to get friends to play it on with. Of course I'm sure there is someone out there who has out-done my reviews... but comparative with the selection relative in this article-- I think you can fill in the rest.
T/nC isn't that hard to prepare, it just would be a pain in the ass to tag everything. That would take a while. Luckily the hardest part is done by the writers.
In fact, he could make it easier on himself by making a template and telling everyone "put it like this" and if they're off by a bit, reject it. Don't know why he doesn't do that. People have to know HTML to write a paragraph anyways, and would be really easy for anyone to do. Its literally the same as BBCode, except they'd need <br>, and anyone can learn that. To solve the email problem, he should just say "Use imageshack" and have it done with. From there, he could copy paste everything and wouldn't need to put in an ounce of work.
This article shouldn't be a responsibility, and would be ideal if he made it easier on himself by the above suggestions.
Lastly, as much as you enjoy reading them, and as much as I'm trying not to reduce this into some long drawn out debate... next time can you pick some of my arguments and attack them? It isn't ideal when the rebuttal consists of "its his responsibility to run it could not host it if he doesn't want to", because I don't see where that responds to one of my points. Plus, we know that its not easy, but I made a suggestion above that'd negate that.
JohnnyRancid said:
Yeah but what does that have to do with reviewing the map? I think what he means by getting a grip is that we dont care about your rant and that we would much rather hear more info on the map. Try not to veer so far off topic next time.
I know what you mean, but my review has way more detail than half the wad-reviews accepted. Look at some of the really short ones to see what I mean. Plus, some people I know talked to me and said they really enjoyed the review. I'm sure its a personal point of view-- so that's fine by me if you don't enjoy it. Remember its just an opinion  , but still there are some shitty reviews above that are easily 50 letters or less. The rant also held points that advise the doomer to stay away from it for that reason. There was plenty, and I mean plenty of points in that review that a single paragraph should not put off someone from reading it. If I'm reading a paragraph I don't like, I just skip it. It's not a huge deal to skip something if one doesn't like it... much like skipping dessert.
Last edited by Black Metal on 08-04-08 at 15:50
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