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I hate MOCPages
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Thu, 2 Sep 2004 15:01:36 GMT
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Now before you climb up onto your high horse, let me begin by saying I love
MOCpages, and I think Sean Kenney is doing the community a great service.
But I hate the users on MOCpages, at least a few of them.
Since I've joined, but over the last six months in particular, I've recieved
bogus, vulgar, obscene and just plain idiotic reviews and ratings to the
creations I have posted there. Granted, I'm not trying to claim that all my
creations deserve high ratings or high praise, but some of these reviews are
ridiculous.
An example of the most recent lousy review of mine, in my opinion:
http://www.mocpages.com/moc.php/1695
Well Mr. Josh Jenkins, it's MY cathedral and it's MY world that I've built. I
don't care what your preconceived notion about what a Cathedral is and isn't,
rate the model, not the idea.
Well, ok, I'm just venting over that one. But...
Here are plenty of examples of bogus and possibly vulgar reviews on my Black
Dragon's page:
http://www.mocpages.com/moc.php/1682
I've actually requested that several of "BOBO's" reviews be removed from several
of my creations (which they have been) because they were just obscene.
Another Bobo classic
http://www.mocpages.com/moc.php/1686
Oh look, it's Bobo. Fun.
http://www.mocpages.com/moc.php/1683
Here's Josh again.
http://www.mocpages.com/moc.php/1700
Another pointless review, nice Job anyway to you too, Josh.
So Sean, buddy, I'm not trying to cheapen your website, cause I really do think
it's a great idea in theory. But would it be possible to impliment a membership
requirement on reviewing and rating creations? Without accountability,
anomynity allows for some serious abuses of the system.
If people choose to review a creation without reading the description, or rank
the MOC poorly because of personal problems with the builder, or just giving
worthless reviews in general, I can live with things of that nature. That's
just they way some people are.
But people like Bobo need to be taken out. It's free to join MOCPages, so it'd
only be an inconvenience to those who already are members to review or rank a
creation. But if you had to put your own name and profile attached to a review,
I would bet it would deter the Bobos of the world, at least a little bit.
Sigh...
Anyway, thanks for letting me vent, Lugnet. Sometimes you just need to make a
public display.
--Anthony
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Message has 10 Replies:
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| I agree with your suggestions. In fact, I think it helps cut down the trash on Lugnet becuase you have to be registered to post, AND Lugnet always shows your real name. Yea, we still get trash (and different people will judge what is trash (...) (20 years ago, 2-Sep-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) I agree. I've had to request removal of an obscene review before as well. Not only do lots of inane and often obscene reviews get posted, but a lot of people post MOCs with no photos. That's oh so useful. Just looking at the first 2 pages of (...) (20 years ago, 2-Sep-04, to lugnet.general)
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| Hey Anthony, I agree about the worthlessness of some of the posters. With my Tolkien stuff there are a large portion of people who write how I'm an idiot because my creations didn't match with Peter Jackson's interpretation of Tolkien's book. My (...) (20 years ago, 2-Sep-04, to lugnet.general)
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| ...and I hate how when a Post is made like this one, and out of the 14 current replies only TWO people actually replied on topic. I'll be number 3, yes, I agree, I was surprised at some of the banter on MOCpages. It seems to be abused by some (...) (20 years ago, 3-Sep-04, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) I wonder if that includes "Ender Sava", who has left some classic pearls of wisdom on at least one of my mocpages, and that of my buddy Ryan Rubino's. Is he related to you? (URL) I'd put his comments on about the same level as that of Josh (...) (20 years ago, 3-Sep-04, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) I dunno know, I certainly don't approve of vulgarity, but I like the fact that outsiders (non-AFOLs) can post reviews - even if they don't understand anything about the genre. And I doubt non-AFOLs would be interested in registering for it. My (...) (20 years ago, 3-Sep-04, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) I think Amazon handles problem reviews well (as they typically lead the Web world in community & collaboration, IMO). Users browsing their sites see "Was this review helpful to you? Yes/No" on all reviews, and there's a "Report This" link as (...) (20 years ago, 3-Sep-04, to lugnet.general)
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| I agree totally, just look at some of these reviews: (6 URLs) I think we should have direct control of the reviews. Of course, this probally would be abused by some of the page owners.. I love MOCpages, I hate poor reviewers! (20 years ago, 3-Sep-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| (...) Take a look at Joker's homepage: (URL) a single of his so called"MOC's" has a picture. Maybe I missed one but still what's the point of making a page for it if there aren't any pictures?? Those two problems are the only things I don't like (...) (20 years ago, 3-Sep-04, to lugnet.general)
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| All: Sorry for the late reply on this thread ... I was away for a long holiday weekend. The reviewing mechanism on MOCpages was meant to be that - for reviews. I created it as a means for people to offer praise and/or constructive criticism. Want to (...) (20 years ago, 7-Sep-04, to lugnet.general)
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