Idiot Reviews - My Response :)

Wednesday, Mar. 24, 2004 - 8:49 a.m.

Well. We found out what on earth has caused John's allergies to fluff up and explode so badly so early in the year -- apparently the tree pollen counts are about eight to ten times higher than they usually are right now, due to the exceedingly unusual warm weather as of late. Cheri had a terrible time too while she was here; now she's back under that comfy layer of SNOW she loves so much. :-P

I kept being paranoid that it was some overlooked dust or something, but there was no way to know why the sneezles were so prevalent. It still -could- have been my lousy housekeeping, but now that I've heard the report about the tree pollens, I'm less inclined to think it was anything else.

So, John, and Cheri -- you guys weren't imaging things; the allergy season is indeed upon us.

Way the hell too early.

Oh, and I did go finally install a couple of pictures in the posts from last week.

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Okay. I got my review from Idiot Reviews.

Their comments are in monotext, and my response is in brackets.

As Jamie said when he first saw what they wrote about my diary, it's all in fun.

I hope they enjoy what I have to say. :)

And I hope you folks do, as well. Let me know if my assessment of their review is off base.

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Diary: bindyree

Title: I can hear the ocean.

First Impression: plain.

[[Yes. It's plain. On purpose. Black text on white paper worked for five hundred years in the form of those portable websites known as 'books'. Whether you agree or not, black text on a white background is something that people are used to seeing on a psychological level. There's no reason to break something that's not broken. And it loads so fast! Call me silly, but I thought that was a pretty good reason to keep things as plain and readable as possible -- for speed and ease of use. ]]

Template: I think its very boring and just thrown together...I don't even know if you made the layout or not. You have random stuff everywhere. It could be more organized. I think your older entries could be archived better and you should used previous and next buttons, its easier to read your diary that way. 20/30

[[ I -do- use 'previous and next' buttons, you stupid piece of shit. They're down at the bottom of every page. And you forgot your apostrophes. ]]

Content: Well you don't have any content except for your entries.

[[ Let me get this straight. You're reading a diary and you're complaining because there's nothing here but diary entries. You're an asshole. ]]

I REALLY recommend you getting a cast page up so I know who your talking about. I'm lost.

[[ I REALLY recommend you sober up before you review my diary. My 'cast of characters' link appears at the bottom of EVERY page. And you didn't use the correct form of 'your'. And I'm afraid I'm going to have to agree: You're lost. You're SO fucking lost. :) ]]

I skipped around and came to this entry. My mom is my best friend and I think its great that you keep your mother in your memories.

Everything I else I read was just daily ramblings, pretty much nothing interesting. You go from talking about one thing to something totally different, from a argument to what you ate that day...I'm sorry but your entries are boring. 25/40

[[I'm sorry you think so. If I'm so boring, how come I have a readership averaging over 180 a day? And how come you didn't go to the profile area and see who -else- listed which of my entries as -their- favorites? Don't you trust anybody else's judgement, you silly cunt?? ]]

The link: Link is there. 5/5

[[ Not for much longer, it's not. But I do have to ask: If you people don't even review a site until it's linked to you anyway, how come you grade on whether or not the link is there? Isn't that redundant? ]]

Errors: Sometimes you use CAPS and that's annoying.

[[ EAT ME, SHANNON. EAT ME RAW. ]]

4/5

Extras: Favorite Entries. 1/5

Contact: Email only? You should have at least a guestbook and notes. Having more than one way to contact you is important in case you don't always check your email only. 1/5

[[ I -do- have a guestbook, and I -do- have notes, and they've been there for the entire existence of the diary. Thank you for not paying the least bit of attention to my layout and amount of contact information, and for docking me for not having information that I do have simply because you didn't happen to see it even though it's right in front of your window-licking little face. :) ]]

Organization: Already said this.. 5/10

Bonus points: none

Comments/advice: You should get a different template. It would make everything look 100% better.

[[ I should get a new template, huh? Well, guess what. The "Idiot Reviews" site is -completely unreadable- in my version of Netscape. But you can see MY site in BOTH Netscape and IE. That makes MY site more accessible than yours. Game, Set, Match. :) ]]

Final score: 61 D

Reviewed by: Shannon

[[ Hey, at least you had enough nerve to sign your name. I appreciate that. Really. :) ]]

[[ Oh, and my final score for Idiot Reviews is a D; there's no quality control, the layout is boring, it's impossible to read through one of the two browsers used most throughout the world, and there are spelling and grammatical errors throughout. I predict your wonderful little review website is going to be history in the near future if all of the rest of the reviewers are as lame as this little fucktard seems to be.]]

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Okay. Enough about Idiot Reviews.

Enjoy your endeavors in good health, girls.

Wenchie made some good points here, though.

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Another new episode of South Park tonight! Sigh. It's a beautiful world, it is. :)

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10 of my readers commented on this entry

Raziela
Ugh, some review sites are just stupid. Their judgement suck so much (and they do think that their judgement is the correct one... pfft). I think that your diary is lovely and those idiots at Idiot Reviews (the name sure indicates what kind of persons they are) don't have a clue what the heck they're talking about. You keep up the good work on your _awesome_ diary. ^_^
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patty
i like your "plain" template. um, i have stopped reading some diaries because they fry my eyeballs. and i am with you on the rambling. that's what makes random diaries interesting. they are random!
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Jamie
I took down my link, and quietly told them I'm not interested. Guess that means I'm not getting reviewed. Lemme go ahead and review my own diary for them. B - :) Jamer
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Old Buddy Dave
RE the "Idiot" reviewers: (whispering) I see dumb people...they're everywhere...they don't know they're dumb...
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Bindyree
Hey, folks! I got a whiny, profanity-laced email from the little girl who runs Idiot Reviews in response to the comment I left in her guestbook. I'm still considering whether or not to share with the class.
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danielle
It's funny because I read your review on Idiot Reviews and realized that the review obviously had been done really quickly. When she said you didn't have a cast page, I knew right away that she probably didn't look at your diary at all. It humored me. By the way, the owner of Idiot Reviews is 14...She's an interesting girl thats for sure. Share the email with us...And hey, go read my rant on review sites...you'll enjoy it.
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onewetleg
i remember my first review... http://onewetleg.diaryland.com/screwed.html
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onewetleg
by the way, you are allowed to write anything you want in your diary, so definitely post the email. hehe.
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wench77
Haha! Maybe these are friends of the wft-reviewers?! Complain about things that they haven't taken the time to look at, judge your writing and then cannot write themselves, judge your template and theirs is unnavigable. You have comments on the page, email, notes and guestbook and they say you don't put enough contact? Jeepers. I guess they like it when we chop them to part when we comment on their incompetent reviews, or why else do they offer to review us?? hehe. thanks for the link. If you click my name here you can read my bObO review comments. hehe. :)
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tallguyinyc
Post it! Post it!
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