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Old 02-11-2008, 03:09 AM   #61
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Re: MUD Reviews

This is probably most unholy threadomancy, but everything seemed to cut off there, so I was wondering if there was a final word, and if not, whether it was still worth discussing.

After all, regardless of whether they are good, bad or indifferent, those review links are still stuck up there on the front page.

Perhaps one way would be to have a system whereby there is a team of review moderators (separate from forum moderators), and submitted reviews wait for 48 hours or so, and if no moderator reports an objection, they get posted. If there's an objection, then the moderators can discuss it, vote on it, investigate further etc.

There's never going to be a perfect solution though, because even professional critics have their own biases. It might be best to implement this basic spam/quality filter and then let it go as before, opt-out and all. At least then there's something out there, and people have some way of contributing in a much more controlled manner than the forum threads that have the potential to get out of hand. I don't think the opt-out is a big deal personally, as long as you see the "Top MUD Listing" as "these MUDs got the most people to vote for them" rather than "these MUDs are officially the best", because that's all it is really.
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