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Don't think that the options shown above your own reviews said "You can click to modify this review or you can view your own review." before, did they? At least I only noticed it now, and it makes no sense to have that second option there, since it just points back to the same page. I mean, if you have the option to edit, it's already your own review, right? (Unless we're talking of admins who also have a review for said game, but in that case it's a bug that it shows up like that for regular users too.)

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The prompt in that box is content-based.

The idea is that if you're viewing someone else's review for the game, and you have also reviewed it, you can click from their review to check out your own take on it (and then click to edit, if you wish).

That's not a scenario that comes up super frequently, or that is easy to test, so I may have gotten the logic wrong in those exceptional cases. I'll try to keep it in mind, but hopefully it won't be a huge distraction in the meantime. I don't think it has been yet.

"Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." - John F. Kennedy on reality

"What if everything you see is more than what you see--the person next to you is a warrior and the space that appears empty is a secret door to another world? What if something appears that shouldn't? You either dismiss it, or you accept that there is much more to the world than you think. Perhaps it really is a doorway, and if you choose to go inside, you'll find many unexpected things." - Shigeru Miyamoto on secret doors to another world2

Don't think there should be any scenario in which a regular user would have those options though.

I mean, checking a game that has multiple reviews including mine, if I check the other reviews it says "You can view your own review for this game." and if I check mine it says "You can click to modify this review or you can view your own review." with the second option obviously just linking back to the same page, since I'm already viewing my own review. And that's the case for all of my reviews that I view, whether others exist for that game or not.

So, nope, not a distraction, just odd.

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