From your description it sounds like the problem is not that reviewing has gone too far, but that it has not gone far enough. I, for one, agree with this. The problem, however, is that idle comments like this rarely have any effect. There is no way one can force users to post reviews of a certain quality when so many reviews are bad. If we begin removing ratings or deleting reviews of a certain user, they tend to get discouraged and not write longer reviews. Besides, judging someone based on their grammar and English ability (for those who know a lot of English, it is easier to write longer reviews) puts an unfair burden on those whose English skills are poor. You may argue that they should learn English better, but that is obviously not easy.

Most of today's reviews would be, by last year's measure, be considered poor. Even the longer reviews of today would be completely unnotable. The best we can really do is to install a minimum length, but even that would just cause people to add unnecessary spam content to their reviews so it could be posted. The most absurd of reviews are, and always have been, removed to the best of the administration's abilities. However, it is up to the users to report offenses that slip through. I look into every single PM I receive, but simply cannot do the work all by myself.

We may apply more helpers come J2Ov2 time. However, all self-nominations will be ignored as they are on the JCF. The point of this job is not power. If you are seeking this for power or recognition in any way, you will be disappointed by the job. It is not fun, nor rewarding, besides the feeling of helping out. The best you can do at this point if you still wish to help out is send a PM with information about abuses. This may be slower, but helping out makes it more likely that you will receive recognition in some way for your effort. And I thank those who have already helped out a lot, especially one person in particular, who definitely knows who he is.

~ Traft