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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 906 |
| | Posted: | | | | You're a wise man, gardibolt. Absolutely agree | | | 
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| Registered: March 19, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 6,018 |
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| | Posted: | | | | Quoting gardibolt: Quote:
I'm inclined to leave the rule as is. It has worked pretty well, and oddball items like this don't seem sufficient reason to substitute a fairly clear and workable rule with one that introduces extra elements of subjectivity. Thirded this. It really makes no sense to start taking out subjective graphs because of one, ornery situation ( especially when said situation is really nothing new at all). | | | Reviewer, HorrorTalk.com
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 13,202 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting CharlieM: Quote:
Therein lies the trouble. Where is the line drawn. While I do understand the need for including the reviews when directly incorporated into a sentence/paragraph, why do we need to go further than that. But we aren't going farther than that. This is a sentence that has 3 review snippets incorporated into it. As such, it shouldn't be treated any different than the paragraph below that does the exact same thing. If the entire sentence was just a single quote of a review, my opinion would be different. | | | No dictator, no invader can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.
There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom.
Against this power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand.
The Centauri learned this lesson once.
We will teach it to them again.
Though it take a thousand years, we will be free.
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| Registered: May 20, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 2,934 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting TheMadMartian: Quote:
Quoting CharlieM:
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Therein lies the trouble. Where is the line drawn. While I do understand the need for including the reviews when directly incorporated into a sentence/paragraph, why do we need to go further than that.
But we aren't going farther than that. This is a sentence that has 3 review snippets incorporated into it. As such, it shouldn't be treated any different than the paragraph below that does the exact same thing. If the entire sentence was just a single quote of a review, my opinion would be different. The lower paragraph actually contains the description of the movie. it just happens to have a review snippit at the end of the paragraph, and all reality, the paragraph makes since if you remove it, but it is part of that paragraph. The rules make no distinction whether the reviews are stand alone or grouped. There is an exception in the rules for the incorporation into the text of the overview. Quote:
Never include the following items in overviews:
* Taglines
* Reviews (unless they are incorporated into the text of the overview on the case)
* Extra features
* Hyperlinks or other HTML
* Line-break hyphens
The question then is, are these incorporated into the text of the overview. I contend that the overview starts, in this case, at "Charlie Babbitt". If my contention is correct, then the preceding line is to not be included. It is already acknowledged to be separate by a paragraph break, so now is it actually part of the overview. At what point do we include "reviews" within the text of the overview. Do we now make the distinction, that if more than one review is put together to form a sentence or paragraph on there own, it is now part of the overview? As i said, I can live with that, if it is a rule. The way that I read the rules at this point, is that reviews are not to be included except for reason stated before. These are a grouping of reviews that are separate from the actual overview. IMO Charlie | | | | Last edited: by CharlieM |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 13,202 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting CharlieM: Quote:
The question then is, are these incorporated into the text of the overview. I contend that the overview starts, in this case, at "Charlie Babbitt". If my contention is correct, then the preceding line is to not be included. It is already acknowledged to be separate by a paragraph break, so now is it actually part of the overview. At what point do we include "reviews" within the text of the overview. That is, indeed the question and inclusion, or exclusion, depends on the answer to that question. As Ken has stated, the answer is not covered in the rules, so we have two choices...come to an agreement or vote our opinion and live with the results. | | | No dictator, no invader can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.
There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom.
Against this power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand.
The Centauri learned this lesson once.
We will teach it to them again.
Though it take a thousand years, we will be free.
- Citizen G'Kar |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 2,372 |
| | Posted: | | | | I still have a problem with calling that 1st sentence a review. It is not. It is, as Hal said, a sentence that incorporates reviews.
Without the pictures separating the two paragraphs it wouldn't have even come up. |
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| Registered: March 19, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 6,018 |
| | Posted: | | | | That's how I see it as well. |
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| Registered: January 1, 2009 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 3,087 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting lyonsden5: Quote:
I still have a problem with calling that 1st sentence a review. It is not. It is, as Hal said, a sentence that incorporates reviews.
Without the pictures separating the two paragraphs it wouldn't have even come up. I had contributions made were the "review" wasn't seperated. (I think just another paragraph) And theo votes were very different. So I'm not agreeing with the ones that say the rules can stay, because it has worked very well. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 940 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting CharlieM: Quote:
I am not a fan of exceptions, except where they are prudent.
While I agree with your sentiment this sentense made me smile.  | | | | Kevin |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 5,494 |
| | Posted: | | | | Rainman got approved with my contribution and notes 'This is Part of the same review in the same sized font. " ... Re: overview .. 22 for to 7 against .. thankyou ..  Now I'm I going to get the remarks of i.e " Triumph of the Data Vandals! Idiots. " ....  | | | In the 60's, People took Acid to make the world Weird. Now the World is weird and People take Prozac to make it Normal.
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 21,610 |
| | Posted: | | | | And....?  Skip | | | ASSUME NOTHING!!!!!!
CBE, MBE, MoA and proud of it.
Outta here
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 5,494 |
| | Posted: | | | | Just reporting on what the screeners have allowed ... | | | In the 60's, People took Acid to make the world Weird. Now the World is weird and People take Prozac to make it Normal.
Terry |
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| Registered: May 10, 2007 | | Posts: 1,059 |
| | Posted: | | | | Triumph of the data vandals!  Only kidding of course - the screeners have decided, so be it! | | | Berak
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| | Posted: | | | | thankyou.. | | | In the 60's, People took Acid to make the world Weird. Now the World is weird and People take Prozac to make it Normal.
Terry |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 13,202 |
| | Posted: | | | | Ken did say that he would be willing to let the voters decide. At 22 to 7, it seems they decided. | | | No dictator, no invader can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.
There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom.
Against this power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand.
The Centauri learned this lesson once.
We will teach it to them again.
Though it take a thousand years, we will be free.
- Citizen G'Kar |
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