Why writing Reviews is pointless!

I don't know a dislike button or flag button. I clearly mentioned in first review of doom lord, why it was a poor series and translation.
But sighs you missing the point, there's not even guildlines for reviews. It's all up in the air.

 

Yeah i know, did I assume otherwise? Chill.

 

Don't base your scores on the translation quality or a tag. Mention it in a single sentence if you must. If you can't read the story because of the translation quality or can't understand the story because of the translation quality you have no ground on which to review THE STORY. You can criticize or question the translator if you wish, though it's probably not a good idea to do so, but the place to do that is not in the review. The review should focus on the story itself as should the rating.

 

I want to feel secure that I can a decent negative review without it being magically deleted. To be clear, I am just furious as Doom lord deserved every bit of hostility. I don't care about WC, but I could of vowed there was a lot more to that review.

The fact is I realized after I written hour long negative review about I shall seal the heavens then I realized that Imight be wasting my time and only positive reviews will stay.

 

well, a one liner and trashing the translator is pretty much not a review. i mean why trash the translator on the novel review? go to their web/blog if you're unsatisfied and complain there.
and there's still the missing deleted reviews.

 

I told myself that I would be leaving after finishing up x about of reviews, so I was keeping count, but I might be wrong I suppose.

 

I agree, at least to some extent, but then you should also be looking at people who review based on how good they think it will be if it was written better...

Like sure, I see how and why, but is that really okay?

Honestly I think that in the case of poor translation there should be something like "Pending" that disables rating or something until the translation better represent the original work.

 

Edit: nvm

 

I know I should be leaving as issue has been somewhat come to a close, but the fact is there's other reviews mentioning translation still on site. Also being an translation the translator does have a apart of prose, so I disagree that was fair, though maybe unbalance.

On the original review with doom lord, I mention how the story was an rare concept, but translation was beyond hopeful. Also every other review for series did the same, but less hostile.

 

I thought the review was fine, if it had been rephrased to not attack the translator.

But as it has already been explained Tony has more work to do and can't go into too much detail.

You simply have to take a step back here and deal with it, if this discourages you too much from writing reviews, then wait until there's a more sophisticated system in place.

NU and NUF are both still fairly young and it's being improved every day

 

I think, that if the translation is ureadable, it either has to have tag "Bad quality translation" or some WARNING sign in the description. I remember I was reading some novel, previous translator dropped it, new one picked it up and when I got to that point I saw that the quality flown out of the window. It was literally unreadable from that point. My eyes were bleeding and I was frustrated from the fact that I have to drop this novel. I remember that MTL of Swallowed Star I read in the past was more understandable than "translation" of a new guy.

Edit: The novel I was talking about is not Swallowed Star. SS is just an example that 100% mtl was better than "translation" of the novel I was talking about.

 

Agreed. Why can't we talk about the translators? Since its a translation, it should be fair game. If the translation is crappy, we can't say its crappy?

 

If we really want to go into that it's not even a translation.... nearly sloten work from google translator or bing translator. Where's the quality control isn't that suppose to be mentioned in reviews. This work translation is of no quality. But like I said... no guild lines it was censorship for unknown reasons, before mentioned here.

Also Tony don't let know me down here. You are more mature than me so don't laugh at the issue in which you are overseeing.

 

I wonder, how much more work is it to say "shadow ban" a review compared to deleting? You know like how only the reviewer himself can see the review until it's approved.

Maybe you could like slap on a text that says, "unapproved" without deleting it, to give the reviewer a chance to edit it so it can be approved, without giving you too much extra work.

Just a thought.~

 

I think that it's been said that there won't ever be a public way to rate translation groups. It would be useful for the readers but it would be demoralizing for the translators, because people are assholes, and demoralizing the translators is bad for the community. I am basically supportive of this stance.

I do sometimes wish we could tag MTL groups as MTL. If they admit they are MTL there should be no problem with it, aside from the aforementioned fact that people are assholes, but there isn't much one can do about that anyway. I think that is probably the closest we could get to being non-offensive towards translatiors and indicating translation quality ... and even then there would be a wide range of quality

 

Instead everybody has to give empty flattery like in xianxia novels to make sure that they don't ever feel bad about themselves.

I think it can be a bit more in the middle-ground instead of two extremes...