Ace_Arriande
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Let's say a reviewer edits their review after approval (they get checked first, right? I forget) to be something rule-breaking or dishonest. Or something slips past that shouldn't be allowed. Or if it's easy to prove that the reviewer is straight-up lying about the content of the story. Or any other potential reason that could result in a review being removed by staff.
On RR, they used to have the problem where people would just keep on editing their reviews over and over again to submit them time and time again, only to be removed again and again until their review was finally within the rules. Recently, if I recall correctly, they decided to stop letting rule-breaking reviewers repeatedly review the same story. They get 2 or 3 chances or something and that's it now, I think.
Anyways, do that. I've supported the idea for years and it was kind of surprising that it took so long to be implemented over there, and I'm hoping it'll become a feature here sooner rather than later. Though, if it were up to me, I would just straight up disallow a rule-breaking reviewer from re-reviewing a story even once. If they get a review removed for any sort of violation, they shouldn't be allowed to re-review (or even leave a rating) at all since they would have already proven to have ill intentions there. It could even be taken one step further. If somebody is repeatedly getting in trouble over reviews and having their reviews taken down, don't allow them to review or rate any story at all.
And just to clarify, I don't mean reviews that authors report for being misleading because the reader interpreted a story differently than the author did. I mean lying (such as, for example, claiming that a story has pedophilia in it when every character is 18+ and looks/behave like an adult), saying that it has rape when no sex even happens nor is implied, attacking the author themselves, being hateful with any -ism of your choice in the review, and so on. Things that are actually breaking the site's rules, not just reviews that author's dislike because they're negative.
None of this is really a problem here on SH yet, but there's a good chance of these sorts of things happening as the site grows bigger and bigger.
Also, actual standards/rules for reviews would be helpful.
On RR, they used to have the problem where people would just keep on editing their reviews over and over again to submit them time and time again, only to be removed again and again until their review was finally within the rules. Recently, if I recall correctly, they decided to stop letting rule-breaking reviewers repeatedly review the same story. They get 2 or 3 chances or something and that's it now, I think.
Anyways, do that. I've supported the idea for years and it was kind of surprising that it took so long to be implemented over there, and I'm hoping it'll become a feature here sooner rather than later. Though, if it were up to me, I would just straight up disallow a rule-breaking reviewer from re-reviewing a story even once. If they get a review removed for any sort of violation, they shouldn't be allowed to re-review (or even leave a rating) at all since they would have already proven to have ill intentions there. It could even be taken one step further. If somebody is repeatedly getting in trouble over reviews and having their reviews taken down, don't allow them to review or rate any story at all.
And just to clarify, I don't mean reviews that authors report for being misleading because the reader interpreted a story differently than the author did. I mean lying (such as, for example, claiming that a story has pedophilia in it when every character is 18+ and looks/behave like an adult), saying that it has rape when no sex even happens nor is implied, attacking the author themselves, being hateful with any -ism of your choice in the review, and so on. Things that are actually breaking the site's rules, not just reviews that author's dislike because they're negative.
None of this is really a problem here on SH yet, but there's a good chance of these sorts of things happening as the site grows bigger and bigger.
Also, actual standards/rules for reviews would be helpful.