Originally Posted by Lisnaholic

Sitejabber removed my review within an hour of it being posted. It is probable that both of us have fallen foul of their strange policy:-



I gave MB a five-star rating, which Sitejabber clearly views as grounds for deleting my opinion. For a website dedicated to reviews, their clumsy algorithm has the self-defeating effect of screening out positive recommendations. So anyone looking for recs on Sitejabber will continue to come away with a low opinion of MB, especially when they see this deceptive statistic on the page dedicated to MB:"Number of positive reviews: 0" , the algorithm failing to mention that it has blocked a number of reviews for being too positive about MB.

The experience has left me with little but the urge to post somewhere a scathing review of Sitejabber.

Originally Posted by The Batlord

And yet some miscreant can call people gay and $#*!ed and it doesn't get taken down, just cause it's a one-star review. Shameful.

Originally Posted by SGR

On a positive note, I don't think the difference between someone deciding to sign up to MB or not in 2022 will be bad reviews on Sitejabber.

Originally Posted by Lisnaholic

tbh, I feel you could've posted something more helpful to the reputation of MB, but hey, Sitejabber deemed your review as "relevant", so what do I know.



Thanks for the reminder to keep things in perspective, SGR. Out of curiosity, i wondered about MB's reputation on the internet, and found this much more impartial, positive description on a website called flypaper:-



Source: https://flypaper.soundfly.com/discov...tuck-in-a-jam/

Originally Posted by GD

lol I saw your reviews, seems like they were left up after all. I also like that you can tell who wrote which purely based on their tone

Originally Posted by Trollheart

I'd disagree. Some threads can be very inclusive and get everyone involved. Remember Love or Hate? Batty's reviews of Key's albums? And even nodding back to my journals for a moment, Metal Month was very successful three years running. So there can be interest engendered without other third-party involvement; it just takes a little effort and engagement.

And no, I'm not starting Love or Hate again...

Originally Posted by Trollheart

You sound like Buffy after they dragged her back from Heaven.

Originally Posted by WWWP

I want to open a school for MB's lost boys and teach them basic coping skills and build up their self esteem and strengthen their emotional intelligence and teach them about vegetables and institutionalized racism and sexism and then they'll all build a bronze statue of me in my honor and my bronzed titties will forever be groped by the grubby paws of you ****ing whiny pathetic white boys.

Originally Posted by Plankton

Great reviews by everyone although I am skeptical of that Dick Felcher one.

Also, it was heartwarming to see that this place brings some solace to you, TH, I just wish you'd have closed out those parenthesis.

~LISP'ing intensifies~

Originally Posted by Marie Monday

Sure, but having something like plug or discord probably gives more of an impulse than any forum thread. That doesn't mean we shouldn't put any effort into the latter though

Originally Posted by Lisnaholic

Thanks, GD. You're right. Sitejabber came through after all, which makes all my previous grumbles wrong of course.

Yep, yours was a good post, Trollheart: as GD says, easy for us to identify the author from the style!

Originally Posted by Trollheart

They still haven't posted mine. Probably all at home with bad backs.

Okay well first this is putting words in my mouth (and you do NOT want to go there! Not even my dentist will!) - I did not say that at all. I make no bones - as you can see further on - about the fact that I get no real traction with my journals. I hope people read them (from the views that would seem to be the case, but who knows?) but I write and post them anyway. I do this ALL THE TIME, whether the forum is buzzing or dead. It's NOT an attempt to shake things up, as I know it won't. All I'm saying is I work all the time, as hard as I can (without it becoming a chore or a job) on my journals because I enjoy doing so, and maybe, just maybe, one or two other people here might too. That won't, I know, contribute to the overall activity - or lack of it - here.

You can congratulate yourself on "starting discussion by saying the place is dead", but what have you actually achieved? A few posts in one thread? This might run a few pages, it might not. Then it will die as people forget about it. It's a finite thing, not going to do much more than help prop things up for the short term. I'm fine with you engaging in any way, but don't fool yourself that you're helping, just as I don't fool myself with my journals. It's a happy coincidence that debate has been sparked; neither you nor Elph can tell me this is what you intended, otherwise you would have started a thread about this subject. This is the Your Day thread and will soon be on other topics, with this long forgotten.

So thanks for trying, but don't pretend it was any effort on your part. Also, neither of you have taken part in the subsequent discussion, just watched it unfold, so no, still not doing anything.

In the end, I make no claim to be helping with my journals. I'll post them whether this place is dead or alive. But I do also make threads outside of the journals section, and try to get people talking and getting engaged. Sometimes it works, most often it does not. At least I'm trying.




That was always safe.


I'd disagree. Some threads can be very inclusive and get everyone involved. Remember Love or Hate? Batty's reviews of Key's albums? And even nodding back to my journals for a moment, Metal Month was very successful three years running. So there can be interest engendered without other third-party involvement; it just takes a little effort and engagement.

And no, I'm not starting Love or Hate again...

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.