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Jazuela · 10-31-2007, 10:53 PM

My big concern about the spam, is that when I read the reviews, I'm not looking for any specific game. I am looking specifically at the latest reviews, period. And if the latest 50 reviews are mostly spam, then I'm wading through spam in an attempt to find what I was actually looking for. Now granted in this specific situation I mentioned in my last post, there were two muds that were on that list of 50, which received 30 total "spam reviews" about some medication (I don't recall it being viagra, actually). So it's easy to just not click on any review of either of those two games. But, what if ONE of those reviews, was actually a review? Then I would have completely missed it a review, in the reviews section of a mudlisting service, because I assumed incorrectly that it was not, in fact, a review, based on the evidence of THIRTY SPAMS IN A SINGLE DAY, half of which were listed for that mud.

That's why it's a concern. Because mud admins who -do- want their games reviewed, will NOT have the reviews read, if people trying to read them are hit with dozens of spams instead of reviews. Readers will simply assume those games have no actual reviews, and not bother looking for any.

10-31-2007, 10:53 PM	#52
Jazuela Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: New England Posts: 849	Re: MUD Reviews My big concern about the spam, is that when I read the reviews, I'm not looking for any specific game. I am looking specifically at the latest reviews, period. And if the latest 50 reviews are mostly spam, then I'm wading through spam in an attempt to find what I was actually looking for. Now granted in this specific situation I mentioned in my last post, there were two muds that were on that list of 50, which received 30 total "spam reviews" about some medication (I don't recall it being viagra, actually). So it's easy to just not click on any review of either of those two games. But, what if ONE of those reviews, was actually a review? Then I would have completely missed it a review, in the reviews section of a mudlisting service, because I assumed incorrectly that it was not, in fact, a review, based on the evidence of THIRTY SPAMS IN A SINGLE DAY, half of which were listed for that mud. That's why it's a concern. Because mud admins who -do- want their games reviewed, will NOT have the reviews read, if people trying to read them are hit with dozens of spams instead of reviews. Readers will simply assume those games have no actual reviews, and not bother looking for any.