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== How to comment == | == How to comment == | ||
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== Comment guidelines == | == Comment guidelines == | ||
Comments and votes should be based on the quality of the review, not your agreement or disagreement with the writer's opinion on the anime. Some useful questions to ask: | Comments and votes should be based on the quality of the review, not your agreement or disagreement with the writer's opinion on the anime. Some useful questions to ask: | ||
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*Did the reviewer watch the entire series, or enough to establish a legitimate perspective on the anime? | *Did the reviewer watch the entire series, or enough to establish a legitimate perspective on the anime? | ||
*Does the review express himself or herself clearly? | *Does the review express himself or herself clearly? | ||
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Based on questions like these, you should assign a vote and comment on why you chose the vote you did. The available votes are: | Based on questions like these, you should assign a vote and comment on why you chose the vote you did. The available votes are: | ||
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*'''Needs some revision (3)''' - Use this vote if the review has some merit, but also serious problems that need to be addressed before the review belongs on AniDB. A vote of 3 should always be accompanied by a list of exactly what aspects you believe need to be corrected in order to meet the minimum requirements. | *'''Needs some revision (3)''' - Use this vote if the review has some merit, but also serious problems that need to be addressed before the review belongs on AniDB. A vote of 3 should always be accompanied by a list of exactly what aspects you believe need to be corrected in order to meet the minimum requirements. | ||
*'''Needs complete revision (1)''' - Reserve this vote for so-called reviews that do not serve the purpose of a review whatsoever. Pure plot synopsis, a few sentences about how the anime being reviewed is the best/worst thing in the world, random banging on the keyboard, | *'''Needs complete revision (1)''' - Reserve this vote for so-called reviews that do not serve the purpose of a review whatsoever. Pure plot synopsis, a few sentences about how the anime being reviewed is the best/worst thing in the world, random banging on the keyboard, plagiarism of another reviewer's text, and completely off-topic writing are some examples but not the only ones. In addition, a vote of 1 may be appropriate if the person commenting believes that, aside from extensive problems that would justify a vote of 3, the review has little or no redeeming qualities, such that a total rewrite would be necessary in order to provide a useful review. | ||
== Reacting to comments == | == Reacting to comments == | ||
Most comments and their associated vote should be taken as just that - a comment. If someone praises your review, then you can feel proud, and move on with your life. If someone thinks it's bad, then as long as they pointed out '''what''' they thought was bad about your review, you might want to have a look at figuring out a better way to get your point across. These examples are obviously only for ''good comments'', that is, comments that actually have a message and a point. | |||
Sometimes users leave comments that have nothing with the actual review to do, say if they completely disagreed with the review, and they voted a low score just because of that, and probably didn't write a very informative comment either; if this is the case, you should ask one of the active [[User:Mods|mods]] ([[User:Der Idiot|Der Idiot]] and [[User:Rar|rar]]) to delete the ''bad comments''; this will not be done frivolously however. Unless the ''bad commenter'' has spammed a lot of reviews with 1s if he disagreed and possible 10s if he agreed, the ''bad commenter's'' comment will likely be inspected, and if found ''bad'', the ''bad commenter'' will for starters just receive a message asking him to rethink his comment; if he does, hopefully all will be good and well, if he doesn't, the comment is likely to be deleted. | |||