Reviewing your self.

Bahamut God · Post by **Bahamut God** » Thu Jun 12, 2003 6:35 pm

I can't figure out why you would do this. It seems to me it is just a way to try and boost your own ratings. What could you even get out of writing and posting a review for your own video?

Not that I don't give my video's star ratings though. ^_^;;;

Am I alone here, or am I missing something?

SarahtheBoring · Post by **SarahtheBoring** » Thu Jun 12, 2003 6:37 pm

*concurs*

I think the notes, your own website (if you have one), or your .org journal are a better place for your thoughts on your own videos. Yeah, it's good to look at your work honestly, but I don't think the opinion system is the place for it.

*shrug*

Flint the Dwarf · Post by **Flint the Dwarf** » Thu Jun 12, 2003 6:44 pm

The only time I'd score my vid here is if the score I give myself is lower than the average. Which is the case with my vid, but I still haven't reviewed it.

Doesn't mean much to me, really. I want words, not numbers.

Mr Pilkington · Post by **Mr Pilkington** » Thu Jun 12, 2003 6:59 pm

Isn't reviewing your own video kind of redundant? If it wasn't good why did you post it? Yes I'm guilty of giving my own Star rating, but no way around it. You post the link, Test it, and confirm it. And I Test it again after it's linked. If you don't rate it (after 10 dls) you can't download any more. So I feel it's ok to give stars, just not full reviews. Besides it’s really hard, if not impossible to bias with your own work.

WilLoW :--) · Post by **WilLoW :--)** » Fri Jun 13, 2003 1:27 am

Reviewing your own videos can be useful to appear in the "most under rated" list, when you have 0 opinion for several thousands of downloads...

So this can bring new opinions.

It happened for me twice, and I received other opinions a few days after that...

Ashyukun · Post by **Ashyukun** » Fri Jun 13, 2003 7:31 am

I definitely wish we could download our own AMVs without it counting against the number of videos we have without star ratings. Yes, I actually download my own videos on occasion, when I'm not at home or don't have a disc of them with me and someone asks me about what I do for a hobby. I would be quite happy if the site's code checked to see it logged in user account = account that uploaded video , and if they matched not give you the option to give it a star rating...

gambitt · Post by **gambitt** » Fri Jun 13, 2003 8:44 am

There are quite a few good points in reviewing your own video.

Use your imagination. If the only people who will be reading your review are the ones who've already reviewed it, you can put anything in there that you don't want the rest of the .org to see. Kinda makes it like a little incentive to review a video in the first place.

When I review my own videos I like to get extremely critical on it. I put the same effort in writing my own reviews as I do in reviews for others in the hope other people see it. I like to fill out my mistakes so people will see them and not do the same thing. Not to mention I primarily use After Effects so I'll leave an occasional tip.

How much do you like seeing, "Hey, the text looks great, how'd you do that?" under another review that says, "The text r0xx0rz, what you do~?! OMGWTFLOL!!!111" under another one that says, "Did you do that?" ? Yeah, I'm sure you can tolerate it, but I can't answer the same question eighty times or refer one reviewer to another review just below him, that just seems rude to me. Henceforth, I make my own review to answer questions.

No, I don't want to use my website because it sucks and I hate designing it and not every AMV creator can make a webpage... or at least an interesting one I can surf long enough til I find the info. No I won't put some of the things I say in the video info because that's called a spoiler and I want my viewer to be surprised. Lastly, you have up to 10 star reviews you can leave unfilled. Do you have more than ten videos you're checking the links on? If ya do, check three, I'm sure the rest work.

Sure reviewing yourself is abused and on the outside looks useless, but seriously, if you really don't like the fact someone may have over-rated himself in his review, get off your ass and give him an honest review. That should equal out his scores easily.

Org Profile · Post by **Otohiko** » Fri Jun 13, 2003 9:58 am

Reviewing yourself? Strange idea... If you have comments about your own AMV, shouldn't you uh... stick them in the video description?

And unless you're a real masochist, I doubt you're gonna give yourself a bad review...

So, I think reviewing yourself is mostly for people who are convinced that high ratings will somehow make their video better.

I mostly look down on those who see the whole AMV rating scale as some sort of a popularity contest. This shouldn't be about that at all.

SarahtheBoring · Post by **SarahtheBoring** » Fri Jun 13, 2003 10:45 am

Not wanting a website is fine; that's exactly what the video description is for.

koronoru · Post by **koronoru** » Fri Jun 13, 2003 12:08 pm

Maybe I don't fully understand how this Web site's "opinions" system works, but it seems designed to force you to review yourself. I got told that someone had written an opinion on one of my videos, but I couldn't find a way to read the opinion until I had written an opinion on that video myself. Also, you don't qualify for the "underrated" list until you have at least one opinion. Since the point of that list seems to be to encourage people to write opinions, it seems like if you want an opinion on your underrated video, you have to write one first.

Or does it all come down to whoring for opinions in the forums, and nobody ever writes them except in a tit-for-tat arrangement (which of course discourages negative opinions)? The system sort of looks that way.