Is reputation defined by contribution points or likes you get on your reviews? 

 emmagucci:

Is reputation defined by contribution points or likes you get on your reviews? 

I hope it's not about likes, because that would be ridiculous. I think it should be about how many reviews did a person wrote. 

 David33:

I hope it's not about likes, because that would be ridiculous. I think it should be about how many reviews did a person wrote. 

The number of reviews is also meaningless, seeing how number of reviews says nothing about the quality of said reviews... 

 Kate:

The number of reviews is also meaningless, seeing how number of reviews says nothing about the quality of said reviews... 

That's true, but it's pretty easy to do a research if the so called "Reviewer" actually deserve the title. Likes only show that how many people read the first couple of reviews, and they have the same opinion. It's not reliable at all.

I think if there are criteria, like how long and detailed the review is, and a person has more than 10 reviews for example, they can get an official title. This way, trolls can't affect the average rating of the reviews.

 David33:
I think if there are criteria, like how long and detailed the review is

but even that can be problematic, because not all good reviews are long and detailed. Personally I like to read the short and to the point ones the most, even if I prefer writing longer ones. I think whatever the criteria will be, it has to take into consideration more than one thing.

Also... 10 reviews is for sure way too low of a number. It should not be a number that is easy to achieve in an hour in one sitting, coz then the whole criteria is easy to pass and becomes useless. 

 Kate:

but even that can be problematic, because not all good reviews are long and detailed. Personally I like to read the short and to the point ones the most, even if I prefer writing longer ones. I think whatever the criteria will be, it has to take into consideration more than one thing.

Also... 10 reviews is for sure way too low of a number. It should not be a number that is easy to achieve in an hour in one sitting, coz then the whole criteria is easy to pass and becomes useless. 

Sure, but just like anything on MDL, this can be reviewed by Admins as well. I mean, we can't upload any poster, only if the Mods accept it, so the same can be done for the reviews as well. Of course, everything has a loophole, but we can report anything, even reviews if it's not an actual review, so this can be done properly. It just takes time and effort from everyone.

I can tell you we don't have resources to process every reviews

I do understand that it's quite impossible to check each reviews (I have seen 1 drama got 300+ reviews in one day).

I will like to make some suggestions:
1. the user must be a verified user to leave a review

2. there should be a time limit after creating an account before the user can leave a review (I have seen account created and left 5+ reviews the same day the account was created, of course that account will review and rate 1 drama (10) and the others will get a bad review and rating)

3. Give users the option to report these accounts. right now we can only report  a review or a comment of the user. but many times the review or comment doesn't infringe MDL rules so its absurd to report the review or comment.

3. There should be only 1 rating system. The 1 on the review and the watchlist rating should be the same.

Just voted for this one :)

I really hope MDL does something about this :-/

Honestly... by now ongoing reviews for airing dramas are not even the biggest issues. Reviews for dramas that did not start airing, or do not even have set date to air yet are literally a full on clownery. 

 Kate:

Honestly... by now ongoing reviews for airing dramas are not even the biggest issues. Reviews for dramas that did not start airing, or do not even have set date to air yet are literally a full on clownery. 

Well that's an even stranger behavior to do that ^^"""". I just ranted on feeds about this topic because I find it so strange and could not help myself lol... Kinda want to delete the post now but well, curious to see if somebody can explain to me why people do that kind of stuff lol 

 Ji-N:

Next Major Updates:

  • Ongoing reviews will expire after 30 days, becoming hidden, and a notification will be sent to update them.
  • At least one episode must be watched to write a review.
  • Review overall scores will sync with the title's rating score. 
  • Overall rating will be optional.
  • Category ratings will also be optional.
  • A history of edits will be available when you change the rating or the content.

@Ji-N : regarding the ongoing reviews next major updates : 

- will the helpful/unhelpful button will be blocked until after something has aired  ? Because it might be one incentive of people writing early reviews, not very qualitative on airing show, just to get "likes" early I guess ?

- will the next major updates fix the issue of people marking a show as "completed" when it is still ongoing ? (and writing a review about it saying it is completed or even if they do not mark it as completed but ongoing, that they mark it with more episodes than the number released in reality) ? 

Thanks in advance for your feedback on this :D


Example : Newtopia : 2 episodes only released and multiple reviews with people putting they have seen 8 episodes and marking the show as ongoing or completed ^^""" It does not make sense to me lol 


WOW It really doesn't make sense... Idk why people do that. Can't we just make the reviews as unbiased as possibile? ... I know making them not subjective is impossible (thus I almost never write them myself), but people going so far is on a whole other level.