reviews (not) linked to games

marionline · Post by **marionline** » Sun Jan 07, 2018 8:56 pm

I noted some of the reviews I wrote for the review contest aren't linked to their games.
Now I wonder, what if someone revied one of my games/demos and I would not see it?

Is there a way to figure out wich reviews were not yet linked to their games or something to make this process more visible?

Post by **Bob the Hamster** » Mon Jan 08, 2018 12:53 am

If I remember correctly (and I might not), Mogri has to manually confirm each review to connect it to the game. He probably just hasn't had time to do it lately

(I'm a moderator, but I actually have no idea if I can do that or not. I don't know how it works)

marionline · Post by **marionline** » Mon Jan 08, 2018 6:01 am

If I remember correctly (and I might not), Mogri has to manually confirm each review to connect it to the game. He probably just hasn't had time to do it lately

(I'm a moderator, but I actually have no idea if I can do that or not. I don't know how it works)

That's what I remember as well, that the reviews have to be confirmed manually.
So, I guess that's correct.

Post by **TMC** » Wed Jan 10, 2018 6:36 am

I believe that for the last few (or many) years, SDHawk has taken over the responsibility of attaching reviews to games.
Are there any reviews that still aren't linked? I couldn't find any.

Linking is accomplished by a moderator posting to the thread for a game, example. (Note the URL is viewtopic.php instead of viewgame.php)

marionline · Post by **marionline** » Wed Jan 10, 2018 4:46 pm

I found these reviews that are not linked to their games (I only looked at 2 pages though):

Gizmog's Running Review of Labyrinthilium
Gizmog's Grapnes 2: Kepnalcide is pretty good!
Gizmog's Gomie doesn't want to dogpile on Dragon Chaser
Guizmog's Gomie Came Close To Hating Blackeagle
marionline's Mini-Review for Yi
marionline's Review for Wandering Hamster
Virtuous Sword's Review of Wandering Hamster
Gizmog's Gomie Liked Bale
Virtuous Sword's Review of Blackeagle
Virtuous Sword's Review of Spooks and Summons (Halowoof)
Virtuous Sword's Review for Sour City
Pepsi Ranger's Review of C.Kane
marionline's Review for Dungeon Bout (Alpha)
TheLordThyGod's Review for Quodia
TheLordThyGod's Review for Necromancer Ate My Cat
TheLordThyGod's Review for Mirrored Soul Gaiden - Demo
TheLordThyGod's Review for Blackeagle
TheLordThyGod's Review for Andy & Ollie Save Christmas
TheLordThyGod's Review for Labyrinthilium
marionline's Mini-Review for Gnomie's LoveTester
marionline's Review for LinearQuest III: Dungeon Maze
marionline's Review for Dark Planet
marionline's Mini-Review for ColorOrganizer
marionline's Review for Overgrowth Demo
marionline's Review for Spooks and Summons
marionline's Review for Void Pyramid
marionline's Review for witch2
marionline's Review for The Successor's Legacy - Demo
marionline's Review for Blackeagel
marionline's Review for Puckamon
Rogissidor's Rogi Reviews Dragon Chaser
Rogissidor's Rogi Reviews Andy and Ollie
marionline's Review for Grapnes 2: Kepnalcide
Spoonweaver's WAFFLES

Post by **TMC** » Thu Jan 11, 2018 4:55 am

Oh! Now I realise that each review links to the game it reviews, but the other way around is linked manually. It's strange that Mogri didn't automate that...

marionline · Post by **marionline** » Fri Jan 12, 2018 8:48 am

I think it wasn't automated to prevent spam?

But it would be good to improve/make easier the process somehow.

Post by **Mogri** » Fri Jan 12, 2018 4:50 pm

In the past, we've had someone do it manually. It's a bit of a thankless job, though if you want it, it's yours.

The reason I implemented it the way I did was (pick one):

PHPbb really wasn't built for this
a really good reason that I can't remember anymore
I was lazy

marionline · Post by **marionline** » Fri Jan 12, 2018 8:30 pm

I'd take the job to link reviews to game, if that helps.

I'm usually not online regularly, but I could try to change that and long in at least once a week.

SDHawk · Post by **SDHawk** » Sat Jan 13, 2018 1:43 am

I still link up reviews, but only like once or twice a year (last time must have been part way through last year's review contest?). If you want to do it more frequently, go for it.

FyreWulff · Post by **FyreWulff** » Sat Jan 13, 2018 1:52 am

Mogri wrote:In the past, we've had someone do it manually. It's a bit of a thankless job, though if you want it, it's yours.

The reason I implemented it the way I did was (pick one):
PHPbb really wasn't built for this

a really good reason that I can't remember anymore

I was lazy

fun fact, i finally learned to program correctly once i gave up on trying to mod phpbb. It's like software made by people that hate other people. I downloaded Simple Machines and that one was a relative dream to work with (but it's fairly dead end as far as updates go these days)

Now I'm writing my own forum software because I hate everyone else's.

kylekrack · Post by **kylekrack** » Sat Jan 13, 2018 5:35 am

FyreWulff wrote:It's like software made by people that hate other people.

That is a spectacular sentence.

marionline · Post by **marionline** » Mon Jan 15, 2018 6:20 am

One needs to be moderator or something to link reviews.
I can't link them.

Post by **Mogri** » Tue Jan 16, 2018 5:01 pm

SDHawk wrote:I still link up reviews, but only like once or twice a year (last time must have been part way through last year's review contest?). If you want to do it more frequently, go for it.

I, uh, actually don't remember the procedure anymore. If you want to tutor marionline, I can handle the permissions.

SDHawk · Post by **SDHawk** » Tue Jan 16, 2018 11:19 pm

1. Go to the review's page and note the url. ie, https://www.slimesalad.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7464
The number at the end, in this case 7464, is what you want.

2. Go to the game's page and click on "post reply".

3. Write a post with [review]7464[/review] and submit it (the number changes with each review).

4. Done! You might want to check the game's page again to make sure everything linked up correctly and you had the correct review.