Block reviews until fully watched

I quote all your point

I disagree because I believe anyone who has watched any amount of episodes should be free to share their opinion. The newer MDLers have sort of shifted the site to a more autocratic rather than a place where a democratic and "lassez faire" environment people can be exposed to all sorts of opinions. 

Having said that, I value the review of someone based upon lots of factors including total number of dramas, type of dramas, etc. In this scenario, a easy solution would be for the website masters to write a script that automatically displays how many episodes the reviewer has watched upon writing review. This is simple and is automatically pulled from the writer's list. 

Writer is thus able to write whenever he wants. be it a positive or negative review. 

And reader is able to deduce whether he agrees or disagrees. and whether because of said review if they want to pick up the drama, continue the drama, or ditch the drama. 

Note: I believe i have written zero reviews so you could say I have no personal investment in this proposal. 

There are lots of good things about MAL but MAL is very limiting due to  over-moderation which I fear has been a stance that MDL has started to take over the past few months compared to many years ago making it become a more detached website.  For example, I have heard people complain of how difficult it is to write an article because of various criteria. 

Note: I have never attempted to write an article so I also have no personal investment in that. 

And for that reason i completely disagree that a few sentences do not make a review.  On a similar note, just because a review is lengthy does not mean they are good. Some lengthy reviews are utter rubbish. Please do let the common people share their thoughts in a manner rather than a comment that is lost in the sea of 1000 comments that nobody will ever see again and give them the fair opportunity to be judged by the public.

In fact, there is already a working solution to decide which reviews are good or bad. I believe people can upvote or downvote or something to that extent an individual review. I believe also the best reviews are highest on the list. I believe a thing to complement that would be to be able to easily organize reviews by total number of votes, percentage, and date.

I want to see more articles, read more reviews good or bad but I can see how with all these changes people would be denied that opportunity to share.Overall, I'm just someone who want to keep the site involvement high and I am concerned this proposal would serve only to stunt that without any tangible benefit.

 bannie:

There are lots of good things about MAL but MAL is very limiting due to over-moderation which I fear has been a stance that MDL has started to take over the past few months compared to many years ago making it become a more detached website. For example, I have heard people complain of how difficult it is to write an article because of various criteria.

I don't think that MAL is very limiting. I seriously don't see any point in writing a review such as "weeee me likes this drama!!" or writing an article that is a complete mess. There are personal blogs for things like that. I would personally stop coming to a community such as this one if anyone could do, write and publish anything they want to.

 bannie:

I disagree because I believe anyone who has watched any amount of episodes should be free to share their opinion. The newer MDLers have sort of shifted the site to a more autocratic rather than a place where a democratic and "lassez faire" environment people can be exposed to all sorts of opinions. 

But it has always been a rule not to write a review before watching all of the episodes. It is even written on the review page. What we want is a system that just blocks it until the drama/show ends, instead of having to report it since it doesn't follow the rules. It is not about the shift influenced by users, the rule has always been this way since the start.

 bannie:

In fact, I actually find that i can be useful to read reviews by people who have dropped the drama. Those usually list reasons as to why they disliked it enough to drop it and give me information to consider if I should take up the drama. 

That is why I suggested "drop review" as I have written above. I do like reading them too, but they need their own place so that people who don't want to read them can filter them out.

 bannie:

Another option to prevent abuse would be to remove reviews after it has a certain significant number of thumb down and baiscally classified as spam, like the one you suggested.

That is a good idea. And I have nothing against people reviewing dramas that they dropped but writing gibberish and posting it as a review is crazy tbh. Especially because we can write anything in the comment section as long as it is not offensive, so I really don't get the need to pass two sentences as a review. It's even worse if they're not in English, it reminds me of Viki.

I was all for this suggestion until I read Bannie's very well thought out and very significant reply and reasoning. Unfortunately, I don't see how I can take my votes back now. :p I am completely and all for the locking of allowing reviews for dramas and movies not yet aired, but now, my opinion is swayed when it comes to those who drop one or those still airing. The logical result, anyway, will be that people need only to mark it as completed and write what they want anyway. It would open up way more abuse of the feature with that in mind. 

As to the quality of reviews. I do understand what you mean and how it is annoying to see reviews you think are badly written, but it really isn't right or fair to censor people based on how you feel about a person's writing ability. Many people do not speak English very well here. Maybe some of those one or two sentence reviews are the best way they can express how much they enjoyed a drama in a language that is not their own. Maybe they are not a very wordy or articulate person. It really doesn't matter. Those people, as long as they are not bots or spammers, are just as entitled to express themselves and their opinions as the rest of us. If you find the review is unhelpful, don't mark it as helpful. If you see it goes against rules already in place, then report it. Otherwise, simply hit the back button and ignore it. It really does not hinder yours or anyone else's experience on MDL at all. 

This next part has nothing to do with the topic and is in response to one of Bannie's posts above. Still, I find it *extremely important* and have wanted to discuss this topic for a long time so I am very, very thankful to Bannie for bringing it up first because I have had absolutely no clue how to but it needs to be discussed. If this needs to be moved to a different thread because it is irrevelent to the main suggestion,  please do so but I do ask it not be deleted and that the subject is allowed to be raised and discussed.

Bannie has also raised a different very important issue that I have also noticed going on here on MDL for a while now. That of trying to impose heavier modding and enforcing of various policies, ultimately limiting users' personal management and use of the site and features. I am not trying to derail this thread at all, and am commenting on it here only because someone else brought up the subject. It is extremely concerning to me and, I would assume, many other users. There are many suggestions and requests that are, legitimately, made to to enhance everyone's safety and enjoyment of the site. Yet there have been a TON of proposed suggestions aimed at controlling and limiting people simply because people doing things differently annoys or bothers others. I don't think that is fair. I am not saying to limit people from giving their opinions or suggestions, but I do think maybe suggesting a series of guidelines for making suggestions might be helpful for everyone. Such as, before making a proposed suggestion, does the suggestion benefit everyone or is it more of a personal prefrence? If the suggestion is implemented, will it interfere with how others choose to manage their personal list or express themselves? Things like that. Not rules exactly, but things to consider before making a suggestion. I think it could be extremely helpful for our community.

Also, I keep seeing MAL being used as an example. 'Well MAL does it this way.' Or, 'MDL should be like MAL.' I'm sorry, but last time I checked, MDL was seperate from MAL and is a completely different site and a completely different community. I don't use MAL so I personally don't have any idea what it is like but I do know that if I were interested in MAL, I would join the community there. I am a member of MDL and I don't care about what they do over at MAL. I only care about what goes on here.

Finally. This is a very important one. There seems to be no forum where people can post about what Bannie and I have brought up. In fact, I am already anticipating being asked to delete this, since it is not exactly directly about the actual suggestion. Yet, if I were to have made a seperate thread in Suggestions for this, I would have been told it was pointless and to delete it, as I have been in the past when I tried to bring up a concern about a policy. The only option people have is to directly PM Skye and Ji-N, which is awesome for some issues, but not so useful if you want to open up a discussion about stuff.