Reporting a,what seems to be, purposefully negative user

mckeed · Post by **mckeed** » Sun Jan 26, 2003 4:12 pm

I'm sure this happens alot to ppl here at the org. I know i've heard stories about this with ppl i know, but it had never happened to me before now. I got a all 1's review when a few other ppl had given me much higher scores. Maybe we should have a system in place for ppl to report users or just check for users who's review averages are very low. I mean lets take this user:

User Name: The Idea Factory
Member Since: Friday, March 15, 2002, 7:40 PM
Usefullness: 20.8 with 15 opinions
[average 163.7 of 23212 opinions; standard deviation 296.4 ]

You can see this guy has a very low usefullness rating which means he writes nothing in reviews, which doesn't mean he gives bad reviews, just that he is short. But then we look more into it, checking what the average scores he gave out.

average given for 15 reviews
Original 3.60
Capture 3.93
Sound 4.00
Action 2.87
Lip 1.00
Effects 1.00
Effort 3.00
Review 3.73
Overall 3.47

Ok....so his average is really low. But maybe his short comments are actually usefull and productive? Lets take a look.

Member The Idea Factory Date Updated Jan 22, 2003
Rankings Orig. Capture Sound Action Lip Effects Effort Re-view Overall
1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Good

Bad They take a GOOD song by Bryan Adams, have it covered by some skanky new techno artists with a more annoying singing voice, and it becomes a musical NIGHTMARE!

General Nice try, I hate DJ Sammy!

Now.....i don't know if he even looked at the video to begin with, just that he can read the video description. But it seems that if he hates a song that much he didn't bother to watch the video in the first place.

Has anyone had any experiences with this user before?
Can I have someone please remove this review from my video. Thanks.

Flint the Dwarf · Post by **Flint the Dwarf** » Sun Jan 26, 2003 11:27 pm

Oy, yeah that guy suggests videos... hehe.

From what I've seen, you can't remove reviews from a video. And really, everyone gets these thoughtless and often un-provoked hate reviews. If it's people like him that just go around and give everything a hate review... well that kinda sucks, but at least it's evened out.

Just get a few people to even out the scores... or is that cheating?

RadicalEd0 · Post by **RadicalEd0** » Mon Jan 27, 2003 12:04 am

pfft link to it ill give it all 10s

mckeed · Post by **mckeed** » Mon Jan 27, 2003 12:56 am

I'd rather have an honest review of it personally. Here is the link.

http://www.animemusicvideos.org/members ... hp?v=11733

I think bad reviews like that can be removed if they are done in the manner that it was done like this. The olympic average kinda helps with this, but it still affects the rating.