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Original Reviews Only

Discussion in 'Lists and Directory' started by ogreman, Apr 11, 2012.

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    ogreman Ogre In Charge Staff Member GameOgre Admin

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    When reviewing a game for fun or for a contest etc please use your own words. We have given warnings in the past and then deleted the reviews. Then if a review is copied again we would take action.

    Not sure why people think they can get away with this since all you have to do is take some of the review and search for it on Google. If there are multiple reviews exactly like it is definitely a copy. There is no disputing that. Another telling sign is somebody with imperfect English writing like a journalist lol.

    That said, we will be even tougher on this going forward. A trip to the Pit or a forum point fine are both possible. A second offense after that will be a straight ban. Due to the seriousness of this we will make sure that it is a copy before taking any action, but we will take action if it is in fact a copied review from somebody else.

    Please remember that writing a review is great but use your own own words and experiences:).
     
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    Ok, people will get clubbed and/or incur a point penalty if they use copies of other reviews just for points etc. Not only is this against the forum rules, but it also can hurt the site.

    The penalty for using copied reviews will start at a 1000 points and could rise quickly depending on the situation.
     
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    Ok, clubbed one today because they could not write a long review without copying parts from somewhere else. I PMed him a warning (took away points too) quite a few times, he did not post, and even tried to deny it some. He finally admits that he copied parts of it and, after several days of no other activity, decides to slip in another copied review.

    Hate to club somebody who is an Ogre Regular, but the copied reviews should stop entirely. Anybody who cant write a long reviews, should just stick to short ones.
     
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