boe!!!! "The Über THAC Idea" Idea got a bad review

at least have it on the Standard page .

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Because i submitted one about four days ago, and it hasn't been reviewed.
I don't want to sound impatient, but i'm not sure if i've made an error, or they didn't accept it, because i haven't got any emails either...

So any ideas?

Could anyone who has submitted a film that already has a discussion thread link the thread to their film please?  This can be done in the control panel.  It will make it easier for people to browser films and then discuss them.  Thanks.

I checked just now and it's 128 films.

I looked at Rsteen's and the link said 60 and thought that was the latest, False alarm.

Some reviews are taken to personel.

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The user rating there has had three people rate it so far, and any user can contribute to that rating.  So it's not an accurate reflection of the review panel's opinion of the film.  After the reviewer (myself, I will explain my ratings later in the post) gave the film 2/5, two other users gave it 5/5.

The way I see it is that if a film is rejected, an explanation is in order, but beyond that it's just an honor to get into the reviewers' picks and normal not to get into the listing.  The wording 'standard' isn't ideal given these are actually supposed to be some of the best and hopefully that can be changed at some point.  So the way I'm looking at it, there shouldn't be a need to explain why a film wasn't honored, just as you wouldn't provide an explanation of why all the entries in a contest, other than the winners, didn't win.

The plan is to eventually integrate the directory and films forum a little more fully, so hopefully people will access these 'hidden' films via searches and the forum, meaning they won't be as invisible as they are now; right now, it does seem more like a rejection that it's supposed to.

We haven't been terribly consistent on this policy so far; I told the reviewers they could review films that aren't honored if they want to, but that it wasn't necessary.  To my knowledge, TheNoodle26 is the only reviewer who has been doing this, because he felt obligated to justify his ratings, etc.  I can see why it might be desirable to make this the norm, but at the same time I don't think it's very nice to have an official, negative review in the directory for all the films that don't make the cut to be reviewers' picks, initially I thought it'd be more merciful to just rate the film and allow people to post negative critiques in the film's discussion thread as we've done in the past.  I'm open to changing the policy on this though, the panel has been discussing it.

Regarding your film, jimmybob: I thought the concept was nice, and the story appropriately campy, but I didn't think the film as a whole worked very well; in particular, I felt the contemporary choices of music were completely mismatched to the old B&W style of the film, killing the 40s b-movie atmosphere.  It's pretty good for a THAC entry but the time limit constraint shows in the animation and storytelling, I don't take the time constraint into consideration when rating the film since the directory has a different standard than THAC.

@micky.brick.eyes An interesting idea; however, I don't know how many people would actually opt for that. Unfortunately, I get the impression a lot of films are submitted by creators with exaggerated impressions of how good their work is.

@all of you impatient people who keep asking "hey when is MY film going to be reviewed?" There's about 70 other people wondering the same thing. We're doing our best.

Last edited by Noodle (May 15, 2009 (09:21pm))

We selected people from the applications we received, based on the quality of the review they submitted, also general conduct and reviews they've posted in the past were a consideration.  I have corresponded with most of the panel members enough in the past to know they're mature, trustworthy, and most importantly competent writers.  I didn't personally know High Tower or TheNoodle26 at all prior to admitting them to the panel, except by their posts in the forums of course.  I would like to have more adults on the panel in the future but, by nature of being adults, most of them don't have enough time to contribute on a regular basis.

As it stands, I think we should have enough reviewers for the time being, in a couple months I might evaluate and weed out any who haven't contributed, at which point I'd probably look for some replacements.