Post originally by Allan Sugarbaker at 2004-12-23 04:10:38
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When someone gets mad about the reviews that go up or don't go up, they're mad at me, 'cuz I'm the one who makes the selections.

Yes, I did not select your review to run on the site. This was primarily because it was short, and didn't get into the details as much as another review I had in hand at the time. Ironically, the other review was Aeon's, and he asked me not to run it before it went live, so RPGnet ended up with nothing on the D&D 30th Anniversary book for a while.

Has RPGnet run shorter reviews than yours? Oh, definitely. There's a short one coming up this Friday, but it mainly points out an opportunity rather than reviewing a product. The guidelines for reviews when I started at RPGnet were that they have "one salient point" at the least. I've tried to move toward lengthier, more detailed reviews on the average, as they are what I prefer.

I couldn't care less whether you speak well of a product RPGnet's trying to sell. We only see a percentage of those sales anyway. What I care about is having well-written reviews. I was going to run Aeon's out-and-out slam, but he had accidentally promised it to two sites at once, and asked me not to use it. With more details added to yours, and less of a "I just bought this crap and I'm really angry" look to it, I'd run your review. You'd be surprised how many submissions I receive are little more than a pissed-off gamer venting for a paragraph or so, often with a comment about how the book was purchased earlier that same day. Truly the sign of a review with lots of thought behind it.

As for the emails, I've completely missed your messages. With so many legacy rpg.net addresses having been created over the last five years for various staff and volunteers, there are days the RPGnet inbox gets several *thousand* emails. We're working right now on getting what has become an unmanagable issue under control. My apologies for not replying to your messages, which I missed in the daily spam flood.