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[Matt (#129193)]

 What's up with the strait 10s discrimination

[Stick (#5576)]

It's a perfect 10 review. If you're going to make a review which has all 10's, you'll have to give good reasoning why you feel it should be given that score in the first place. That's the main reason the vast majority of reviews which give perfect 10's are removed is exactly due to this reason. People feel that they can plop down any number they want and not bother writing up anything of substance to back up their claims.

We're not being discriminatory in anyway to reviewers who decide to give a perfect 10s or even 1's for that matter. All we ask is that if you feel that a particular series you've been watching is worthy of a perfect 10 review, then you have to make the effort in writing why you feel the score you wrote down is justified in the first place. And no, unless those five sentences happen to be pure gold, it's unlikely the review will stay up.

I remember back in the day when we first started doing review moderation. This site was full of perfect 10s with one liners. Mainly because people wanted to get their favorite animes to number 1. All it did was make people go to other websites because they couldn't find a decent review on here.

From then to now, the website is a much more better, cleaner, more legitimate site when it comes to reviews. Granted, no review system is perfect, this being no exception and a few good reviews do slip through the cracks. If you feel that a perfect 10 review has been unjustly removed, please get in contact with the review moderator who deleted it. If you wrote the review, you can at least write something better to justify your score.

[Freddy C (#31563)]

I do agree, I have the same prejudice myself, although I do have one all 10 review, and a all 1 review too.

Oh and btw, it's "straight" not "strait"

[Stick (#5576)]

[Matt (#129193)]

 Agree

[Veleon (#124559)]

Some people ave different meaning on what a 10 should be worth. Some people think that to get a 10 it has to be perfect, no problems at all with it, it couldn't have been better, it was everthing you expected and more. I don't think that way. I a category a 10 if feel that i have no complaints about it. Some people think that average should be 5. I think average should is about a 7. Due to this difference in what the different numbers mean to different people, some people will never understand why I gave a 10 to the enjoyment category in School Days. Or as to why someone gave an anime a 5 when they onl thought it was average.

[Avalanche (#92065)]

[maxim (#126509)]

Basically, the only two reviews I'd posted in the past had been deleted a few days later. Whether it was a system bug, or something else, I haven't even attempted to write another review. Again, I'm not sure if it's the moderation, or whether it was, in fact, some sort of system bug, but I do know that when an honest opinion (let me stress on the meaning of that word) is written by a person, rather than a bot, it should not be deleted.

The reviews I'd written (which were promptly deleted) were for Death Note and Legend of the Galactic Heroes.

[LoStSouLs (#17272)]

truthfully. We would rather have a well written truthful review. If it doesnt meet our standards, be it if the review is too short, or if there wasnt enough reason given why the series got the rating it did, or if it wasnt related to the series at all, we will delete it. You can always find out who the review mod was that deleted it and email them and ask them to undelete it, but we require you to promptly edit it, or it will be deleted again.

[maxim (#126509)]

That may be so, but it doesn't appear that MODs are taking any measures to notify reviewers of review deletes and the reasons for such actions.

What concerns me the most is the fact that deletions seems to be rather inconsistent. There are reviews with perfect scores, yet without clear explanations why the reviewed anime deserved such a high score (short reviews are also rampant). While some reviewers are able to get away with such reviews, other people are not. This practice brings up many questions as to the MODS' motivations and review criteria.

Who knows, perhaps there is indeed some sort of discrimination at hand, where bias plays a big role in which reviews are allowed and which are deleted.

All in all, preventing masses from freely participating in the review process, the review scores in this site end up being rather suspect. I wonder if using IMDB model would create a more just system than the currently utilized one on this site.

As of now, I am certain that many good and unbiased reviewers choose not to participate on this site because of the inconsistent practices/policies of this site. Due to that fact, anime scores seen on this site are very much invalid, and are more biased than reviews on public review sites, and professional review sites.
You can either ignore my comments, or you can try to make it more public-friendly. The longer this site chooses to ignore the pleas of its visitors, the less popular it will be.

[Rosepetals (#42525)]

[Avalanche (#92065)]

Seriously maxim, thats very harsh on us. Here is your review on LOGH

[maxim (#126509)]

If what you say is true, then it does seem that many changes have indeed been implemented as of late.
The reviews I had posted were deleted one day later without any explanation and notification. I'm not even here to contend the quality of my reviews, but the way they were deleted, considering that I've seen many similar reviews that were deemed legitimate for whichever reason.
There is no reason for anyone to discriminate against me, given that no one here actually knows who I am. This is why I came up with the bias theory. (Again, I did not think that reviewing criteria was the cause of review deletion, since there were many other reviews for many other anime which were just as short, or perhaps even mundane).

In any case, I am pleased that you have made significant changes in the past year. I suppose I am more liberal in the sense that I'm more for finding ways of allowing more reviews to remain on the site (as long as they are not forms of spamming, or are overly aggressive), rather than ways on how to delete them with more consistency.

[Vortex (#130619)]

I think if you rate everything a 10 then you are not being truely honest with yourself, to review something you have to compare it to other things in that criteria so you can see the highs and lows as nothing is perfect out there !

A review is a opinion but a opinion which should be thought through and compared to other anime which is close to it and think about what makes it good and special, Only then can you truely give it a score

[Knowname (#71318)]