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Author: asherdeus
Posted: May 02, 2008 (09:53 AM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Do you publicly announce the first review of all of your staff members, or just the girls?
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Author: Felix_Arabia
Posted: May 02, 2008 (10:18 AM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Ashy, there isn't any reason to berate poor Siara because of what is said in the focus window. I'll admit I was skeptical of seeing how her first review would turn out since, to my knowledge, she has never done anything like this before. But as you said, this wasn't a bad first attempt at all.
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Author: Suskie
Posted: May 02, 2008 (10:38 AM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
I don't know who decided to put that in HG's main focus window, but I can change the caption if it's really bothering anyone.
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Author: asherdeus
Posted: May 02, 2008 (11:08 AM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
It's not that it bothers me, it's that it just doesn't inform me of anything that is really important to know. I thought that the whole point of the focus window was to give me a little sample of what was in store, or to entice me to click on it, but telling me that some girl wrote her first review doesn't interest me in the slightest, and I just don't understand why it's there in the first place.
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Author: asherdeus
Posted: May 02, 2008 (11:30 AM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Oh, and finally, for some real comments.
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Author: Suskie
Posted: May 02, 2008 (11:40 AM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Is this Siara's first review, anyway? I know she doesn't have anything else on HG, but I was under the impression she'd written something elsewhere...
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Author: honestgamer
Posted: May 02, 2008 (11:54 AM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Asherdeus, I don't know who put the text in the focus window but I think it's less inappropriate than you imagined.
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Author: asherdeus
Posted: May 02, 2008 (12:39 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Yeah, maybe some members of the community were talking about her first review and looking forward to it, but if they're that attentive, do they really need to be reminded in the first place? I'm interested in Mario - I don't care about the author, just what the game does right and what it does wrong and why. Along the way, yeah, I need to learn something about the author, but how many reviews the author has written isn't something I need to know. To me, it reminds me of all those introductions to so many GameFAQs review ("This is my first review!"). I look to this site to be above that. It doesn't matter to me if it is her first, fortieth, or four hundredth review, I just want to know if the game is good or not. And, quite frankly, as someone who has a website with a staff of 20 people, with "first reviews" coming all the time, it isn't important. I didn't draw attention to my 100th review, my 150th review, and I won't to my 200th review because it doesn't matter to anyone (outside of my staff) reading the review. No reader looking for an opinion on Paper Mario gives a shit if Siara is writing her first review.
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Author: Masters (Mod)
Posted: May 02, 2008 (01:09 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
I liked the review well enough. I also get what Matt is saying; I thought the focus window blurb was a bit strange, but I don't really question anything. Much.
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Author: Suskie
Posted: May 02, 2008 (02:14 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Somebody change that damn focus window caption before people start getting killed.
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Author: EmP (Mod)
Posted: May 02, 2008 (02:25 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
The caption stays until we know who wrote it. Should a miricle happen and anyone else on staff pen something, it'll be replaced soon enough, anyway. None of us would be happy if we wrote something and someone edited over the top of it, and I expect whoever wrote said caption is the same.
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Author: sashanan
Posted: May 02, 2008 (02:31 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
I guess the caption is like an onion, and you're several layers deeper in than I got. I didn't read much of anything into it.
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Author: Suskie
Posted: May 02, 2008 (04:33 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
There. Now let's all try and work together to put this pressing matter behind us.
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Author: bluberry
Posted: May 02, 2008 (04:48 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
you guys are all retarded for caring.
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Author: Felix_Arabia
Posted: May 02, 2008 (05:06 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
I certainly let her know how much I appreciated her attitude.
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Author: Suskie
Posted: May 02, 2008 (05:16 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
I like how Bluberry completely pwns every thread he appears in.
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Author: sashanan
Posted: May 02, 2008 (09:00 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
By the way: Was this Siara's first review or not? I was under the impression that she'd been writing reviews elsewhere. Either way, good stuff.
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Author: Suskie
Posted: May 02, 2008 (10:39 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Ah. Thank you for clearing that up. For the record, this is leagues ahead of my first review.
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Author: sashanan
Posted: May 03, 2008 (04:16 AM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
And mine. In fact, I'd have to say it is dangerously close to being on par with what I write now.
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Author: EmP (Mod)
Posted: May 03, 2008 (06:52 AM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Sash: until you write a new review, I'm keeping all the games you won from the give-aways.
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Author: sashanan
Posted: May 03, 2008 (07:24 AM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
You rat. You leave me no choice.
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