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Re: Illustrations of Rubbish (Reply to this comment)
by captaind
Hey Nicole!
Yes I have all my old reviews on alert still - though the alerts don't always actually come through!! :-D
Glad you enjoyed this trash...
CaptainD
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Apr 24 '08
12:49 pm PDT
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Illustrations of Rubbish (Reply to this comment)
by bethesdalily
I am not entirely certain as to whether you still have this review on your alerts, but I could not resist the temptation to write a comment, in case it is. Sometimes, portraits of paltry prose can be quite artistic. I certainly found that yours fit that description.
Nicole
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Apr 23 '08
7:34 pm PDT
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Re: VH (Reply to this comment)
by captaind
My opinion of my own rubbish in a single word:
RUBBISH!
Erm...
CaptainNotHelpful
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Sep 28 '06
8:21 am PDT
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Re: Great advide (Reply to this comment)
by captaind
Ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooops... I can be guilty of that one at times!!!
CaptainOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOODD
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Aug 16 '05
10:43 am PDT
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Great advide (Reply to this comment)
by kyrane
Thanks, it was great advice and funny to read. If you do an update put an example of sooooo many oooo I really hate that!
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Aug 15 '05
4:17 pm PDT
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Re: A slight disagreement... (Reply to this comment)
by captaind
You're always welcome to disagree! :-P
The point I was trying to make is that people shouldn't review something unless they can review it properly... but then everyone's got their own idea of what constitutes a "proper" review anyway!
It's Epinions' own policy to only allow English-language, otherwise I'd agree with what you said. Or you could have a system like Ciao operate where there's a different site for each country / language.
If I can't get into a book at all and gave up reading it I wouldn't consider writing a review as I wouldn't know enough but that's just my way of doing things.
Thanks for the comment! (And the "slight" disagreement that was longer than some peoples' reviews!! ;-O)
CaptainD
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Aug 15 '05
8:25 am PDT
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A slight disagreement... (Reply to this comment)
by tgregoryt
I've got to disagree with you on a few parts here - mainly the negative reviews such as "this (whatever) is awful because I couldn't read/play/watch it".
There are some 30,000,000 books out there - probably more. I don't have time to read all of them. If you can't read more then a page or two of a book, let me know so that I can move down the next one in line. Same thing for games, same thing for movies. I find reviews that say a book is too boring to read at the very least helpful and if the author is convincing enough, very helpful.
The same goes for online stores. If there are 800 online stores and one of them has customer service so bad that Joe New takes 1/2 hour out of their day to rant about it, I want to know about his awful experience. That way I can avoid that unpleasant experience myself.
I also must disagree slightly on the foreign language issue; I think that Epinions would benefit from some foreign language reviews. Perhaps Epinions can get a site like Epinions.com.fr or something. It would just broaden our user base.
I say slightly disagree because I'm pretty sure this site would be very confusing and frustrating if every time you got a review it was in some wacky language you couldn't understand. Still, I think additional languages would broaden our user base.
This is not a writer's site; it is a consumer's site. The more information we have here, the merrier. This site is not about objective reviews. We are here to say what we think, not objectively dissect a product. Did you like it? Why? Did you hate it? Why? And if the 'why' reason is that you couldn't read it, tell me why you couldn't read it and leave it at that.
If you had a book written entirely like your last paragraph, hopefully you'd toss it away before you had read three pages. And more hopefully, you'll tell me about it so I don't waste my money on it.
Well, the other points in your article I agree with, especially the formatting problems. That is the only thing I can't take, although I dont think I have ever changed my ratings because of the formatting problems. It's just something that bugs me.
Thanks for listening -
T
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Aug 14 '05
12:52 pm PDT
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Re: HILARIOUS (Reply to this comment)
by captaind
Hi there!
Don't know how I missed this comment (I do try to reply to each one!)...
Glad you liked it! :-D Am thinking of writng a even much more worserer sequill...
CaptainD
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Jun 23 '04
2:25 pm PDT
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HILARIOUS (Reply to this comment)
by stlmom
Loved your review! Priceless!
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May 13 '04
11:27 am PDT
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Re: I Could Put Up With Every One Of These Except For The LAST One... (Reply to this comment)
by captaind
Actually I think there must be a really special skill involved in writing something that absolutely nobody can understand - it's like creating a new language that no-one speaks.
I certainly wouldn't suggest that you were in any way guilty of this, 29th... I just think it's a failing on the part of everyone else if they don't understand your stuff... (never could work out what on earth you were talking about myself, but I realise that was my failing, not yours...)
CaptainDisestablishmentarialism-IsItForMe?
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Apr 03 '04
11:21 pm PST
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Re: Re: Dave... (Reply to this comment)
by captaind
Glad you cleared that up for me Jim, now I know that Americans don't use the word "garbage" half as much as I'd previously thought!
CaptainD
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Apr 03 '04
11:17 pm PST
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Re: Great job (Reply to this comment)
by captaind
Hey Kelly!
Wow... there seems to be no end to the number of categories that bad reviews fall in to... it's almost an art form...
CaptainD
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Apr 03 '04
11:16 pm PST
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Re: Hi (Reply to this comment)
by captaind
Thanks Drew! :-)
CaptainFlaggingFromHavingSoManyCommentsToReplyToAAAAUUUUURRRRGGGGHHHH.....
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Apr 03 '04
11:15 pm PST
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Re: I was watching... (Reply to this comment)
by captaind
Quinn, mate, I left out the examples that would show you up as I've already publicly stated thatyou're my favourite movie reviewer, so I wouldn't want to make myself look bad! :-O
CaptainD
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Apr 03 '04
11:14 pm PST
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Re: Absolutely.... (Reply to this comment)
by captaind
Thanks Tom! :-)
CaptainD
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Apr 03 '04
11:13 pm PST
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Re: I know another one... (Reply to this comment)
by captaind
Marcy... you just reminded me... I'd forgotten that one, and the blatantly copied from a bad Amazon.com review... and some I've seen recently that go (literally):
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You just couldn't make some of these up...
CaptainD
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Apr 03 '04
11:11 pm PST
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Re: @[xxxx]§:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::> (Reply to this comment)
by captaind
Thanks Tim.
It's funny 'cos it's true...
CaptainD
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Apr 03 '04
11:09 pm PST
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Re: Re: Re: Great One Dave... (Reply to this comment)
by captaind
Lynda... enjoy your express reviews... I'm sure you will find them very... educational...
:-D
CaptainD
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Apr 03 '04
11:09 pm PST
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I Could Put Up With Every One Of These Except For The LAST One... (Reply to this comment)
by 29th_Candidate
["In what way has the zeitgeist of our generation been illuminated as merely an interpolation of the urban mythology that has grown out of fear and hatred, among those whose intellects have been challenged only by supposed inspiration? What zest for life drove these inconsequential hereditary perplexities into the very existence of hyperbolic reasoning? And what the hell am I talking about?"]
What kind of a supercilious, pompous, pretentious, full-of-himself IMBECILE; what self-indulgent, double-talking, obfuscating, thesaurus-abusing ASS, would attempt to pass off such moronic, self-absorbed drivel as intelligent (or for that matter, intelligible) writing?! Are there REALLY idiots at epinions who presume to write this sort of SHITE!? ...Absolutely frightening! I mean, what's the point of writing something if NO ONE can understand it? WHAT IS THE POINT?!
29th_Candidate
Death Before Double-Talk Association (Head Spokesperson)
Militant Advocates of Plain & Clear Speech (Founder & Chairman)
Conscientious Obfuscation Objectors (Lead Advocate)
Speak Up! Speak Out! Speak Intelligibly! (Spokesperson/Chairman)
Horribly Maim, Torture & Murder All Multisyllabic Word-Users, NOW! (Leader/Hired Killer)
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Apr 03 '04
5:59 pm PST
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Re: Dave... (Reply to this comment)
by 29th_Candidate
Why that's just rubbish... absolute RUBBISH, Wendy! As a matter of fact, I confirmed the fact that Americans almost unanimously use the term "rubbish;" NOT "garbage," with my garbagemen. (I spoke to them about this trash on "garbage day;" thursday, just as they were emptying the garbage from my garbage pails into their garbage truck.)
Therein lies the rubbish,
--29th
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Apr 03 '04
5:17 pm PST
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Great job (Reply to this comment)
by kelly60
Another example would be the guy who gave a lengthy read about the difference between the HDTV and a standard TV, but failed to mention any details of the specific TV he was supposedly reviewing.
He couldn't understand why anyone wouldn't think his review wasn't VH because anyone researching the TV should have already gotten all of this information from the website.
Anyway, I enjoyed your review, as usual!
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Apr 03 '04
1:40 pm PST
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Hi (Reply to this comment)
by proxam
Very good!
Drew
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Apr 03 '04
1:56 am PST
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I was watching... (Reply to this comment)
by JediKermit
I was watching for something that would condemn me more than the ones you listed...but I guess I'm relatively safe. My biggest pet peeve:
"I shall now list the technical specs of the product (which I got from the “View Details” page on epinions) with no additional information and hope I get “Very Helpful” ratings."
Drives me NUTS.
Or Nuts-er.
Great non-examples, D.
-Quinn
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Apr 02 '04
5:24 pm PST
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Absolutely.... (Reply to this comment)
by tombarnes
Excellent! Tom Barnes
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Apr 02 '04
3:52 pm PST
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@[xxxx]§:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::> (Reply to this comment)
by flamepillar
HAH! These are great and hilarious examples, especially that last one. Way to be!
TIM
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Apr 02 '04
7:11 am PST
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Re: Re: Great One Dave... (Reply to this comment)
by ldusold
Just realised I've spent so much time replying to comments that I've no time left to write a new review! Aaauuurrrggghhhh.....
...and the humor never Stops... You're pretty comical Dave.... Now, to be honest, I don't go into the express reviews too often, just sometimes, I have to say those reviews you warned us about, well I pass over them, I don't even bother to read those. Sad, but True, why waste my time? But now you've sparked my interest, I just may take a run through some express reviews more often. =) So while I'm doing that, and having some entertainment, you can get back to your writing... and have a Great Day~
~Lynda
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Apr 02 '04
6:54 am PST
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Re: Dave, (Reply to this comment)
by captaind
Hey Sunni!
Wow - I've been called many things before, but amazing is seldom one of them... well, no unless it's followed by "ly" and then something less complimentary!!
Many thanks for your kind comments! :-)
CaptainD
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Apr 02 '04
6:00 am PST
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Re: Great One Dave... (Reply to this comment)
by captaind
Ah Lynda, you obviously don't spend much time looking at the Express Reviews section... (you don't need to read very far in those to realise how awful they are - other times of course you try to steer newbies towards writing longer reviews because some of them have real talent). But yes, in some cases, it really is that bad. I just wish I had the natural talent to be as awful as that.
A sequel? Quite possibly... but not just more of the same, I think, it'll have to be something a bit different and perhaps even genuinely helpful.
CaptainD
Just realised I've spent so much time replying to comments that I've no time left to write a new review! Aaauuurrrggghhhh.....
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Apr 02 '04
12:39 am PST
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Re: hey there... (Reply to this comment)
by captaind
Hey Tom1
I love that quote - of all the quotes I've ever seen you append to the bottom of your comments (and that's a lot, let me tell you), I think I like that one the best.
Flank u flour yore comennts.
CatpainD
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Apr 02 '04
12:35 am PST
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Re: I think (Reply to this comment)
by captaind
Hey that's an idea! CaptainD's Guide To Leaving A Truly Offensive, Unhelpful Comment... can I use you as an example?!?!? :-P Actually if I did that, I've probably broken every rule myself in the time I've been here... oops...
CaptainSlipUp
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Apr 02 '04
12:34 am PST
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