I know everyone is more than sick of hearing about the reviews on j2o, whether they are being editted or whatever. This rant has nothing to do with admins editting reviews, it has to do with reviewers themselves.

Perhaps I'm just being a little melodramatic, but I'm having serious issues with the regular reviewers nowadays. It simply isn't fair, and I can no longer trust the rankings on j2o unless we get some dedicated and better reviewers. Back in the day, in fact as early as a year ago, getting above an 8 took some serious dedication and work on the creator's part. However any genuine incentive to produce quality has been degraded, in my view, in light of the barrage of unfair, and poor reviews.

The main download that caught my eye was this. Before I reviewed the download had an 8.2, I believe. If you take a look at the tileset, this is simply not good enough to recieve something like that. And yet, a string of people gave it 8+, mainly by what I guess are "influenced" reviews. That is, they base their reviews off of the previous reviews. So the standard is set by review 1 and confirmed as more and more people confirm something that simply isn't true. The only review that contains any semblance of good judgement is Snooz's.

Perhaps I am over-reacting. This could just be one case, but I think overrating is a real problem. The point of this post is to request that if you guys are going to write reviews, please try to be honost, fair, and don't be afraid to go against the consensus. You can point the finger at me and say I'm doing nothing, but I think I'm going to start reviewing much more often for this very purpose. It's for genuine concern for this slowly dwindling community that I make this request.

Thanks for reading. I want replies.