Re: I want to start by reminding you that I like your reviews, I like RAFO and I like all the admins
Danae al'Thor Send a noteboard - 10/12/2010 05:35:47 PM
Hi Rafonauts
Just wondering whether you would find it useful for us to post a list of guidelines for reviews. I've seen people comment a few times that they would do reviews of books but don't feel able to because they don't know how it's done.
If we added a page of pointers to the Help section, or stickied it to the top of the Review library, would that make you more comfortable with sharing a review with the Board?
I'd like to caveat this question, however: I don't think there is a specific structure for reviews. People have different ways of doing them, and there is no right or wrong way.
(And it might give you comfort to know that I think every single review I've ever posted on here is rubbish, and I never know how to start, or whether I'm putting across my feelings in a way that makes people want to read a good book or avoid a bad one.)
But if you think that guidelines and advice would encourage you to give it a go then we'd be more than happy to organise this.
No, no, no, no, no. This is terrible, and terrible, Rebekah. I think it a very bad idea to have a small number of people in positions of some authority telling people how to do something. Even with your caveat, this sort of thing will make reviewing on RAFO a RAFO-boundaried event. Not as much in practice as in perception. We are not a magazine, you are not our editors looking for submissions.
However! You are right that people desire and want a little help. If your pointers section was open to commentary from other reveiwers, readers and the like - if it was a non-admin'd text, in that it was open for people to write in whether they're RAFOites, admins, random reviewers and the like, then I'd say that's a good idea. The fact is, a single post sounds like one voice, even if the single poster quotes many reviewers. Open it out to many voices and it won't be so bad.
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Re: I want to start by reminding you that I like your reviews, I like RAFO and I like all the admins
10/12/2010 05:35:47 PM
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Now that the weekend is here, I'm tempted to write a tongue-in-cheek "guideline" of my own
10/12/2010 11:25:20 PM
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For some of the denser people around here a few suggestions might help.
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