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Lama · Apr 16, 2004, 10:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Trafton

You misunderstand. I was referring to whoever said the review was "three or four years old" (whatever the original quote was.)

Then you should have responded to Moonblaze in the first place because he was the one who said:

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Originally Posted by Moonblaze

You have to understand that rating standards have changed over time, the review by Trafton you quoted is three years old.

Long before I made any replies to this thread.

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Originally Posted by Trafton

No. By repair I mean write good, helpful, informative reviews. Removing the ratings is not the point. Many who knew me well back then that still know me well are quite aware that I have worked very hard to fix the moron I was back then. Rather, to work at fixing it; I am no less moronic than I was back then, but I harness my stupidity and direct it at something, perhaps turning it into a productive element.

Ah, okay, so I guess this means by repair, you will change reviews that are less than useless (i.e. "No comment" and other extremely short and uninformative reviews like the one danyjel found) to something better.

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Originally Posted by Trafton

As for your suggestion: that's an interesting suggestion indeed, but we don't remove ratings to avoid stupidity. The ratings are removed just because the reviewer doesn't explain themselves enough that it becomes obvious their decision is based on facts, not just some vendetta against the reviewer or a friendship.

The point is not to protect against stupidity, or I would be the one being banned, not being an admin. Rather, it is to make sure no one is cheating on the ratings system and that people who take the time to seriously look at the level and review it get more credibility than someone who just rates someone based on their name.

First, let me clarify, this was my recommendation:

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Originally Posted by Lama

My recommendation, so that you don't say I just complained, is that when you "repair," you should do something about the "stupid review" itself, not just the rating.

When I said "repair," I was talking about "reparing" your own reviews, not the reviews of others. You already cleared this up though because you said you meant that you will "write good, helpful, informative reviews."

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Originally Posted by Trafton

I recall one day I spent an hour removing 214 reviews from J2O that a certain user had posted, and then deleting twelve accounts he had made to do it. I asked him later why he did it, and he replied "I was bored." I don't like bringing up the "if you don't like it, why don't you do it?" point, which is why I won't. But it's not like we do this job for glory or anything.

The requirements are basically the ability to press an edit button, be at least slightly partial, and show up. The difficult part is not going on an insane banning rampage. ;-P

And people who have problems with Trafton's reviews need not contact him. Trafton has a problem with Trafton's reviews, especially Trafton of 2001-early 2002's reviews. This is exactly why Trafton wrote 5,000 character reviews daily for several months - because Trafton felt guilty. Once Trafton gets a moment of time, Trafton will be fixing those reviews and never, ever, ever talking in third person ever again.

~ Traft

Unknown said that there was an "ACCIDENT" and Ninja asked how 200 levels could accidentally be edited. Ninja's question was not answered by me (as I gave only a senseless reply) but neither was it answered by you. His implied question, to reiterate, is how does one accidentally edit over 200 different levels?

You can't do that unless you are an admin or you are someone who has uploaded 200+ levels under different accounts and created more accounts to create different reviews for each of his\her levels. The former is easier to do than the latter.

So, by saying "And people who have problems with Trafton's reviews need not contact him." are you using a euphemism to tell people that they shouldn't send you private messages or inform you in any way of the deficiencies of your reviews? Or in layman's terms: "Lay off my reviews?"