To explain a little further with what happened since yesterday - each of the people @TaintedLogic mentioned had not left a review or deleted any of their reviews since then. Those who had temporarily gotten their figure back had left recent reviews due to some fuzzy logic on my part. There's no singling out of users here, that's the common pattern. Expect things to be a little haywire for the next day or two.

As far as greater transparency - we're pretty transparent about the majority of changes across the site. We are, however, a ridiculously small team. Justifying each and every action or having to explain every bug or fix is just not feasible.

This particular issue is one that should have been dealt with years ago and events over the last year or so have forced our hand on it. We'd prefer not to have to remove content (or for authors to remove their own content) nor take your reviews with them, but there are circumstances in which we absolutely have to do both.

At 10/12/18 05:35 PM, liljim wrote: To explain a little further with what happened since yesterday - each of the people @TaintedLogic mentioned had not left a review or deleted any of their reviews since then. Those who had temporarily gotten their figure back had left recent reviews due to some fuzzy logic on my part. There's no singling out of users here, that's the common pattern. Expect things to be a little haywire for the next day or two.

Okay. Thanks again for the update. I appreciate all the hard work you guys do, and I'm sorry if I came off as bitter. Looking forward to seeing how these bugs get resolved over the next few days.

At 10/12/18 05:43 PM, TaintedLogic wrote: Okay. Thanks again for the update. I appreciate all the hard work you guys do, and I'm sorry if I came off as bitter.

You didn't! There's just no easy way of delivering bad news and I haven't really had much time to explain any of it anyway, being on the receiving end must be a kicker. Bottom line is that we'll never deliberately set out to annoy our user base.

ohmy

All is good As I enjoy reviewing This change is bound to happen over the years onlything that I can say is keep moving forward. thank you liljim for all the hard work you do

~X~

Hmm so it sounds like that was the permanent drop after all. :/ Oh well. Will keep at it of course, but unfortunate it has to be like this... hope the future might bring about some possible changes in how all this works. Law reforms. Copyright re-evaluations. Gonna take a while to catch up on this one...

Thanks for the insights again. Always appreciate 'em, as low on time as you guys are.

At 10/13/18 06:24 AM, Cyberdevil wrote: Hmm so it sounds like that was the permanent drop after all. :/ Oh well. Will keep at it of course, but unfortunate it has to be like this... hope the future might bring about some possible changes in how all this works. Law reforms. Copyright re-evaluations. Gonna take a while to catch up on this one...

I feel your pain will take a bit to catch up to the point where I was once, but its all good its the enjoyment of the review that keeps me going.

~X~

At 10/11/18 02:11 PM, TaintedLogic wrote: Woah. All of my recently-deleted reviews got reinstated again. What’s going on? Why hasn’t this happened to anyone else?

I lost 800 reviews. I wondered if it's because some of them are on submissions that were removed by the moderation team, from deleted submissions, or from projects suspended by the author.

Either way if I can get them back, I'd like that. Some of those are reviews are quite nostalgic.

Hopefully this is a one time thing. I will not know what reviews I've lost.

Was wondering what happened to lose about 200-300 reviews...

Just found another user who deserves to be on this list: @Chuck-Ripper. I'm so glad I started paying attention to review totals when I look at people's pages. XD

At 10/13/18 06:01 PM, XwaynecoltX wrote: I feel your pain will take a bit to catch up to the point where I was once, but its all good its the enjoyment of the review that keeps me going.

Thanks, yeah... you lost quite a few too didn't you? Considering you just climbed past 30K it's over two thousand innit? Looking at the last update (and I haven't written all that much since then) it seems we dropped about the same... big enough total each to qualify for the Top 40 in itself...

At 10/16/18 11:31 PM, TaintedLogic wrote: Just found another user who deserves to be on this list: @Chuck-Ripper. I'm so glad I started paying attention to review totals when I look at people's pages. XD

Nice find. :) Gets me wondering how you do stumble upon a page like this? Looking at common reviewer names? Since there's little else there that'd lead there.

At 10/17/18 06:42 AM, Cyberdevil wrote: Nice find. :) Gets me wondering how you do stumble upon a page like this? Looking at common reviewer names? Since there's little else there that'd lead there.

Sometimes I do go actively looking for avid reviewers, but usually it's just a coincidence. In this case, Chuck had reacted to a review that I wrote, so I checked out his page of curiosity.

Losing all of those reviews forever is a tragedy. Not sure how the review list will be effected?
RIP all my old fallen reviews.

At 10/17/18 12:12 PM, TaintedLogic wrote: Sometimes I do go actively looking for avid reviewers, but usually it's just a coincidence. In this case, Chuck had reacted to a review that I wrote, so I checked out his page of curiosity.

Ah, yeah I do curiosity click some of those names too. :D Getting introduced to less self-announcing users did get a lot easier with this particular feature, come to think of it.

At 10/17/18 02:35 PM, DoctorStrongbad wrote: Losing all of those reviews forever is a tragedy. Not sure how the review list will be effected?
RIP all my old fallen reviews.

Any idea how many you lost?

At 10/17/18 06:42 AM, Cyberdevil wrote: Thanks, yeah... you lost quite a few too didn't you? Considering you just climbed past 30K it's over two thousand innit? Looking at the last update (and I haven't written all that much since then) it seems we dropped about the same... big enough total each to qualify for the Top 40 in itself...

Yes indeed nothing one can really do but keep moving forward things like this are bound to happen especially when the site makes update changes like this, so my outlook on it is just gotta move forward as always.

~X~

At 10/17/18 03:19 PM, XwaynecoltX wrote: Yes indeed nothing one can really do but keep moving forward things like this are bound to happen especially when the site makes update changes like this, so my outlook on it is just gotta move forward as always.

Not even counting the numbers huh. :) Yeah, maybe that's the best way. Similar things have happened in the past when certain users deleted all their content too, though it's so much more tolerable in smaller doses. Well, moving on...

Just counting losses and adding them to my compiled mental statshot first...

At 10/17/18 03:34 PM, Cyberdevil wrote: Not even counting the numbers huh. :) Yeah, maybe that's the best way. Similar things have happened in the past when certain users deleted all their content too, though it's so much more tolerable in smaller doses. Well, moving on...

Just counting losses and adding them to my compiled mental statshot first...

oh I do have exact numbers actually I have my own numbers I keep track of for the record for me my loss came to

3,293 lost reviews

:)

~X~

At 10/17/18 04:09 PM, XwaynecoltX wrote: oh I do have exact numbers actually I have my own numbers I keep track of for the record for me my loss came to

3,293 lost reviews

)

Ah man, I wasn't as close as I thought I was after all! My count on this one: 2,630.

More or less. Depending on how many I wrote on the days before the two NG Stats captures when the counts plummeted...

Also good to know. These stats gotta be documented. :)

At 10/17/18 03:13 PM, Cyberdevil wrote:

At 10/17/18 02:35 PM, DoctorStrongbad wrote: Losing all of those reviews forever is a tragedy. Not sure how the review list will be effected?
RIP all my old fallen reviews.

Any idea how many you lost?

Yes, I lost a total of 880 reviews. That is more than most reviewers will ever make in a lifetime. It is definitely a hard pill to swallow.

At 10/17/18 05:27 PM, DoctorStrongbad wrote: Yes, I lost a total of 850 reviews. That is more than most reviewers will ever make in a lifetime. It is definitely a hard pill to swallow.

Oh man, yeah that's quite a bit too! Really seems the more you had the more you lost... top reviewers bound to all have dropped quite a lot on the next update...

At 10/17/18 05:29 PM, Cyberdevil wrote:

At 10/17/18 05:27 PM, DoctorStrongbad wrote: Yes, I lost a total of 880 reviews. That is more than most reviewers will ever make in a lifetime. It is definitely a hard pill to swallow.

Oh man, yeah that's quite a bit too! Really seems the more you had the more you lost... top reviewers bound to all have dropped quite a lot on the next update...

I agree it is a large amount to lose. Yes, the more active you were the more you were punished. The next update should look crazy with so many numbers dropped. So much pain has been spread around in this tragedy.

At 10/17/18 05:31 PM, DoctorStrongbad wrote: I agree it is a large amount to lose. Yes, the more active you were the more you were punished. The next update should look crazy with so many numbers dropped. So much pain has been spread around in this tragedy.

Indeed. I'm a bit curious if those who haven't reviewed anything recently will have lost reviews as well, considering liljim mentioned earlier that drop went through only then. Maybe that's part of the bug now fixed though. Either way going to be an interesting update...

And a depressing one.

At 10/17/18 05:29 PM, Cyberdevil wrote: Really seems the more you had the more you lost...

I also think that the newer community members have lost a lesser percentage of reviews. Makes sense because the likelihood that a submission is deleted increases with its time spent on the site, especially when creators leave the site and delete all their submissions in the process.

At 10/16/18 11:31 PM, TaintedLogic wrote: Just found another user who deserves to be on this list: @Chuck-Ripper. I'm so glad I started paying attention to review totals when I look at people's pages. XD

I thought KWAS was a bad reviewer. I guess quantity over quality, I am guilty too but this is something else.

At 10/18/18 12:52 AM, iscrulz wrote:

At 10/16/18 11:31 PM, TaintedLogic wrote: Just found another user who deserves to be on this list: @Chuck-Ripper. I'm so glad I started paying attention to review totals when I look at people's pages. XD

I thought KWAS was a bad reviewer. I guess quantity over quality, I am guilty too but this is something else.

Right? With a name like Chuck-Ripper you'd think he was a bit more thoughtful than "5 stars, awesome, cute :3, nice". There you go, that's about five reviews of his in one place. Also who's KWAS?

At 10/18/18 01:22 AM, Thereviewtrickster wrote:

At 10/18/18 12:52 AM, iscrulz wrote:

At 10/16/18 11:31 PM, TaintedLogic wrote: Just found another user who deserves to be on this list: @Chuck-Ripper. I'm so glad I started paying attention to review totals when I look at people's pages. XD

I thought KWAS was a bad reviewer. I guess quantity over quality, I am guilty too but this is something else.

Right? With a name like Chuck-Ripper you'd think he was a bit more thoughtful than "5 stars, awesome, cute :3, nice". There you go, that's about five reviews of his in one place. Also who's KWAS?

KWAS71KCK was a top reviewer or 2nd place that wrote bland generic reviews that were cookie-cutter-esque.

At 10/18/18 05:32 AM, iscrulz wrote:

At 10/18/18 01:22 AM, Thereviewtrickster wrote: Right? With a name like Chuck-Ripper you'd think he was a bit more thoughtful than "5 stars, awesome, cute :3, nice". There you go, that's about five reviews of his in one place. Also who's KWAS?

That was waaay longer than most of them too. XD Though IMO if you don't comment with amounts in mind, small words of encouragement are great too. Seems like as soon/if you stumble upon this list though you'll have secondary motives no matter what.

KWAS71KCK was a top reviewer or 2nd place that wrote bland generic reviews that were cookie-cutter-esque.

By today's standards they really weren't that short either. :) He almost caught up to X, then just left, and for years he held that second spot steadily. Huge gap between him and X and everyone else, though looks like that gap's gonna shrink a bit now.

At 10/17/18 11:59 PM, TaintedLogic wrote: I also think that the newer community members have lost a lesser percentage of reviews. Makes sense because the likelihood that a submission is deleted increases with its time spent on the site, especially when creators leave the site and delete all their submissions in the process.

True that. Should've started reviewing maybe a decade later, gained amounts faster with decreased standards, and lost less less quickly; almost caught up to the top and then gone in for a surprise take-over when the veterans suddenly dropped down a bit. :P Alas, retrospective wisdoms!

At 10/18/18 12:52 AM, iscrulz wrote: I thought KWAS was a bad reviewer. I guess quantity over quality, I am guilty too but this is something else.

Huh...yeah, you're right. I guess I didn't read any of the reviews themselves.

At 10/18/18 05:32 AM, iscrulz wrote:

At 10/18/18 01:22 AM, Thereviewtrickster wrote:

At 10/18/18 12:52 AM, iscrulz wrote:

At 10/16/18 11:31 PM, TaintedLogic wrote: Just found another user who deserves to be on this list: @Chuck-Ripper. I'm so glad I started paying attention to review totals when I look at people's pages. XD

I thought KWAS was a bad reviewer. I guess quantity over quality, I am guilty too but this is something else.

Right? With a name like Chuck-Ripper you'd think he was a bit more thoughtful than "5 stars, awesome, cute :3, nice". There you go, that's about five reviews of his in one place. Also who's KWAS?

KWAS71KCK was a top reviewer or 2nd place that wrote bland generic reviews that were cookie-cutter-esque.

I will say sometimes its not really worth going the extra mile to write a full blown review for every single flash movie out there so sometimes you just gotta just keep it short and simple