erPla.net Development

2009-07-15

Quality Rating Guidelines

These are the quality ratings guidelines I've thought of so far.

Guppy Policy

Anyone who comments on a review like a guppy (ex. "OMG your reviews are awesome!") should get at least a warning.

Troll Policy

Anyone who comments on a review in a trollish manner (ex. "This game sucks, and you suck for thinking otherwise.") would of been better off not commenting at all.

All comments have a "reply code" box containing the BBCode to link to that specific comment. Simply copy that code into your comment, and write your reply after it.

If you use the code given exactly as it is, it'll notify the person replied to.

Bad Commenting

Review comments can be reported and subsequently nullified for several reasons, including but not limited to the comment being:

junk (ex. nothing written, nothing but punctuation, unintelligible, etc.)
inflammatory (ex. profanity, insults, trolling, etc.)
irrelevant (ex. "I think they should of used Bruce Campbell to voice the main character")

Rewriting a Review

The only way to write a new review for a game you've already reviewed is to either edit or abandon the original.

Abandoning a Review

NOTE: The abandon review button is an image of a skull.

You can abandon a review if you do not want it to factor into your personal notability and average review credibility.

Review Requests

Adding a game to your library allows other users to request a review of that game from you. This is simply a metric so you can determine what your fans want the most of from you at the moment. Review requests are not factored into any other aspect of the system, and only you can see the number of requests that have been made.

You can also set up email notification (default is 'off') when the number of requests for a game you have exceeds a certain number.

Reviewer Integrity and Review Credibility

All reviewers have an "integrity rating" which starts at 100 (and cannot go any higher).

Various actions can change a reviewer's integrity rating.

Possible Secret Word System

Normally, your favorites feed URL ends in your user ID and is accessible from your public profile. This is called "sharing" your favorites.

I'm considering allowing users to make their favorites RSS feed "secret" by setting a "secret word".

"My Favorites"

Users can mark games or reviewers as "favorites".

Marking a game as a "favorite" will tell the system to notify you whenever that game gets reviewed.

Editing a Report

A report draft can be edited by clicking on the "edit" button next to the relevant report in the "My Reports" section of your user control panel.

Creating a Report

Although Bombing Reports, Reviewer Abuse Reports, and Comment Abuse Reports can all be sent directly from the review or comment in question, you can also create one from scratch by clicking the "Create Report" button in the My Reports section of your user control panel.

Rescinding a Report

While a report is still "new", the reporter can rescind the report by editing it. Editing a report changes it to a "draft".

The reporter can delete a report permanently by clicking the "delete" button on the "Edit Report" screen (can only be done while the report is either an unsent draft or sent but "new").

"My Reports"

All Mod Abuse Reports, Reviewer Abuse Reports, Comment Abuse Reports, and Bombing Reports are saved to the "My Reports" section of your user control panel. Reports not written by you but involve you are also visible in "My Reports".

Reporting a Bombing

NOTE: The report bombing button is an image of a bomb.
NOTE: A "# of votes / # of comments in the last 24 hours" meter is shown next to the "report bombing" button and should be used to help determine if a bombing has occurred.

"Bombing" refers to comment and/or approval/disapproval spamming of a review.