At 9/20/03 04:12 PM, jonthomson wrote:
At 9/20/03 03:57 PM, RyanAn wrote:
Am I the only one who thinks authors should have to respond to the majority of the reviews? The people spend their time watching the movie and reviewing, I think they should get a response. Oh well.
Well, I'm not sure "should have to" is the right phrasing here... "ought to" perhaps, yes.
I'm perfectly happy with my %age, but I know that if I started reviewing right and left like you and jon and demon, my %age would start to drop rapidly. I choose my reviews very carefully because I tend to use my review list as a sort of bookmark list to movies I like a lot but aren't likely to ever be on the top 50 list and so forth. An extended favorites list of sorts, with a few movies I just wanted to help the author with a response.
And I'd have to agree with Tim that thoughtfulness and helpfulness do tend to guarantee a higher rate of responses, but then again, look at Xwayne's response rate... not so great, despite his reviews being helpful usually.
Why? Because more than thoughtfulness or helpfulness, LENGTH helps. I write long-ass reviews, and I think that's why a lot get responded to, either negatively or positively.
Oh, you could also just write reviews to movies of people you know from the BBS, that's a pretty sure way of getting responses. #;-}> I've only done that 4 times, though (Freakapotimus, AvocadoClock, Denvish, and EvilSan).
It would be nice if more do, even if it just them telling me to go to hell. It's still pleasing when I get a nice reply, even just a thanks.
gfox - 651/43 is the new stat. Respond rate drops further :-)
roger. I actually got a response within the past day to a review I left about 10 days ago back when the templist stuff was just starting, so I've risen by exactly 1 response as well, just as you have. But I've only risen by 1 review, so my %age is going to go up instead of down, heh.
That was a nice surprise, I usually either get a response right away within a day or so, or not at all. Anyone else experienced much 1 week+ review to response lags?
Just found the 100th person with over 300 reviews, and 341 people with over 100 total. That's like 53 new people in the last two days, but none of them have moved me down at all :-)
nifty!
reviews -- responses -- % reviews responded to -- name
0018 -- 006 -- 33.333% -- JamesTheExploiter
0102 -- 028 -- 27.451% -- gfoxcook
0924 -- 175 -- 18.939% -- demon0
0323 -- 058 -- 17.957% -- -Marc-
0307 -- 054 -- 17.590% -- _lightning_
0155 -- 022 -- 14.194% -- Crono-
0086 -- 011 -- 12.791% -- alexsmolik
0055 -- 007 -- 12.727% -- Recon_Rebel
0156 -- 019 -- 12.179% -- Mystboy
0275 -- 033 -- 12.000% -- XkwiziTOnE
3240 -- 335 -- 10.340% -- RyanAn
6028 -- 513 -- 08.510% -- XwaynecoltX
0651 -- 043 -- 06.605% -- jonthomson