Jeff,
Thanks for pointing me to that thread. I felt a little bad about the negativity of my previous post. It's all so frustrating though. You made an excellent point in the other thread though, it's not being negative for the sake of being negative. There is a real problem that has existed far too long and going merrily along as if there isn't one doesn't do anyone a bit of good.

I'm too busy with other things right now to do anything about moving my reviews. But in a couple months if things aren't fixed, I'm pretty sure that's the route I'm going to go. Leaving them where no one can see them is a waste.

Scott

Hey Dave, Scott, Jeff, and Smallmouth,

I know most of you guys going way back to when I was still an Advisor in Sports and I know we had talked much more often then through comments.

I've been over in the message boards and have been involved in asking questions, giving concerns and talking options while there is so much indecision and lack of reaL PROGRESS in reference to categories having problems.

I'm not following any person's lead there and profess all I say comes from my heart. None is or was to be considered condescending or bitter toward rightful questions being brought up. I simply posted what I believe the options were to doing nothing. I also realise that those options don't "fit" everyone. They were said in general.

When it comes down to the bottom line things stink in this category and Beauty. They have been hit harder than any other categories the way I see it. I've voiced that many times over the last few months.

Though I don't have as much invested in this category as you guys I still have 18 or so reviews posted since December that of course aren't doing a thing. That's a lot of time I have invested in Sports too. I have been fortunate in regard to not losing total IS or total views because I am also quite diversified.

I just wanted to let you know first hand I care about you guys and everyone on the site. I think the situation stinks for you and unfortunately I don't have much else to say, or really can say. As I stated in another thread on the message boards, We are all big boys and can only make our own decisions.

I'll also add that I hope this mess gets cleared up sooner rather than later.

Best regards,

Phil

At least for the overall MPA list (sitewide), it seems that the invisible reviews for Outdoor Gear & Sporting Goods reviews have been re-incorporated into hit totals (though the reviews themselves aren't counting new hits - it's just counting what you had already gotten pre-/review/ bug). However there's still no tracking for the reviews themselves and if you try to get hit counts for the individual category, it's not there.

I guess it's some sort of improvement.

Jeff

Almar posted over in the Outdoor Gear board that they are looking to roll out a fix for the MPA/MPR stats for the broken categories including sports and outdoors starting tomorrow.

Let's keep our fingers crossed that it starts working.

Here's the original post.

Jeff

Well, that's something. It would be a lot nicer if they figured out how to make our reviews visible again though.
Scott

There's a person on the main board reporting that their reviews that were invisible are showing up now. Not sure if it's part of the roll-out that Almar was talking about. Hopefully it is.

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Jeff

It looks like the MPA/MPR is somewhat back up and running. I don't know about others, but at least for me, it seems to be pretty significantly messed up though.

I'm ranked down at like 138 in the Sports & Outdoors Category and it's showing that I have just over 5900 total hits. I've got Outdoor Gear reviews that have more total hits than that by themselves so the stat tracking stuff isn't picking up all the reviews and all the total hits I guess. Anyone else noticing issues? I sent in a bug report, not sure if it'll do anything.

I posted this over on the main board and over on the Outdoor Gear Board.

Jeff

Jeff,
It's definitely right since I'm on top of the board . . . woohoo, first place.

Seriously, it's not right. It shows about 1/5 of what I would guess my total sports and outdoor hits are and I know full well that there are several people who should be leading me in hits. I'm guessing that it's counting hits for the first year that I wrote here only.

Scott

I checked through a number of my reviews in Sports/Outdoors and none have recorded new hits (none since April). Anyone else see the same?

I did a Google search on some and they did appear in the Google search engine, so I think the hit counter just isn't recording anything yet. No hits = no IS (but you already knew that). -Dave

I found two reviews with one hit each in June. Both were pretty new and I would have expected decent numbers on one of them. I didn't see any hits for May in any reviews and April numbers were a dismal drop off from March and February. It's pretty obvious though that some issue began in February from looking at the trends.

Scott