Feature Requests : Mini-Review Character Length

[Zozan]

Check out the sentence beginning with "in case". Not all movies have 100 reviews.

But regardless of my preference of course, I would really be suprised if such a request would make it into the todo list of the site owners. 500 600 922 398 6666.. Everyone could come up with a number and claim that it is the ideal limit for a review, could try to explain why his number is better than any other number. Dont make any sense to me.

[ShogunRua]

Check out the sentence beginning with "in case". Not all movies have 100 reviews.

Again, I don't see why you're chiming in with this, since you just admitted that you skip all longer reviews, period. So whether it's 500 or 600 characters, it makes no difference to you, personally.

But regardless of my preference of course, I would really be suprised if such a request would make it into the todo list of the site owners. 500 600 922 398 6666.. Everyone could come up with a number and claim that it is the ideal limit for a review, could try to explain why his number is better than any other number. Dont make any sense to me.

Which, if you bothered to read, is why I started this topic and asked other review writers for their opinions.

[Zozan]

I dont know what is so hard to understand..

It says.. in case of plenty reviews, I skip the longer ones.

If I was skipping long reviews at all times, I guess I wouldnt be saying "in case of plenty reviews"??

Anyways, good luck with your request.

[Luna6ix]

I do push the upper limit quite often, but never really have too much trouble cutting important stuff. I think if we had 600 chars this would still happen nearly just as often. I dont understand the significance of 600 and dont see why shogun thinks he wouldnt be in the same boat if it were to happen. The only thing that would mean people not having to cut themselves short would be to not have a maximum, and that isnt happening.

[Spunkie]

The shorter the better from my PoV.. In case of plenty reviews, I already check out the shorter ones and skip the longer ones.

I think the preference would depend on how much time one wants to spend on browsing a movie. For me, I think I browse a movie for a minute or two and decide to add it in my wishlist or skip it at the end of this duration.

So I prefer short. Besides the longer the review, the higher the chances of spoilers.

Perception of the minireviews vary. I for one often use them as an after movie event. As a writer/reader of them I think sometimes language demands a few extra characters (call it overhead if you will). I'm in for extra space as long as the limit is still within reason.

[Rufflesack]

I've always been behind slightly more space for mini-reviews. Seems to me I always reach the limit right before I feel like I'm done, so that half a sentence is cut off. Then I have to spend 15 minutes trimming it down (replacing 6 letter words with 5 letter words, restructuring sentences etc) so that I can fit it all in. Yes, I'm crazy.

[hellboy76]

I've always been behind slightly more space for mini-reviews. Seems to me I always reach the limit right before I feel like I'm done, so that half a sentence is cut off. Then I have to spend 15 minutes trimming it down (replacing 6 letter words with 5 letter words, restructuring sentences etc) so that I can fit it all in. Yes, I'm crazy.

I usually keep mine short, but have been in the same position, and usually end up saying a FOUR letter word then abandoning it. I think 600 or more is fine, better to have it and not need it, then need it and not have it.

[ShogunRua]

I've always been behind slightly more space for mini-reviews. Seems to me I always reach the limit right before I feel like I'm done, so that half a sentence is cut off. Then I have to spend 15 minutes trimming it down (replacing 6 letter words with 5 letter words, restructuring sentences etc) so that I can fit it all in. Yes, I'm crazy.

Yeah, experiencing this dozens of times is what led me to create this topic!

I do push the upper limit quite often, but never really have too much trouble cutting important stuff. I think if we had 600 chars this would still happen nearly just as often. I dont understand the significance of 600 and dont see why shogun thinks he wouldnt be in the same boat if it were to happen. The only thing that would mean people not having to cut themselves short would be to not have a maximum, and that isnt happening.

Well, it would happen less often for me. I would be trying to convey the essential facts about the film in either case, not specially tailoring it to a limit. Thus, if I am cut off a bit short 30% of the time with a 500 character limit, it might only occur 5% of the time with 600 characters. And by contrast, it might happen 80% of the time with a 400 character limit.

As for significance, 500 characters is a short paragraph. 600 characters is almost an average-length paragraph.