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Post August 2nd, 2004, 10:29 am

ok. roger about yr login. i thought it was for members or something like that.

i like the way things are done in yr sites, neat and clear. bet there are many things to do for the site
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in any case, are you gonna put stars for ratings in movie reviews. I am a movie buff and I always look for stars (movie ratings) ,together with my favourite editor , even when I am not gonna read the review. lol.

hope all my comments help.
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Post August 2nd, 2004, 11:02 am

madmonk wrote:
in any case, are you gonna put stars for ratings in movie reviews. I am a movie buff and I always look for stars (movie ratings) ,together with my favourite editor , even when I am not gonna read the review. lol.


We wanted people to read the reviews because you cant sum up a film by its stars IMO however you cant force users can you. I will talk to my editors about ratings.

EDIT: Ratings now added if the editor has one set in the database eg: http://www.futuremovies.co.uk/review.asp?ID=210
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Post August 3rd, 2004, 12:57 am

no you cant sum everything with stars. but why swim against the current? heh. saw yr stars on yr linky.

spider 2 is short of perfect by one star! :shock: lol.


//edit: read and like yr review on spiderman2. spiderman is real smart, on top of all his skills adn everything. heh. thats why he is a leader and prolly the strongest character aprt from the weird billionaire who appears in the nite and other freako characters. lol.
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Post August 3rd, 2004, 1:07 am

I just had a look on my work computer (a pice of junk) and it's really hard to tell how many stars there are. This because if there are >5 stars you count the empty spaces. On a *plum* monitor it's really hard to see how many blanks there are, because there is not much contrast.

Not a big deal because few people use monitors like this one, but then few people use IE4 :lol: just thought I'd let you know and you can decide for yourself what to do about it.

//edit: just to clarify, you <b>can</b> see it, if you look, but not "at a glance", which to me is the whole point of a stars system. Just my opinion and not a very important thing.
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Post August 3rd, 2004, 1:13 am

hmmm. yeah rtm , i think yr monitor is *plum*. heh.
i looked at the link on my 2 computers , they are looking fine. heh.
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Post August 3rd, 2004, 1:15 am

I had 76 people on IE4 on Future Movies (less than 0.5%) and a couple thousand on my work site about 1% (Ok so its in the Education sector :lol: )

I will try doing yellow stars but I cant believe the contrast issue... surely the text would be harder to read than the stars! (for 0.0001 of a second first thing in the morning I was going to suggest you send me a screen shot :oops: )
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Post August 3rd, 2004, 1:47 am

Johan007 wrote:
(for 0.0001 of a second first thing in the morning I was going to suggest you send me a screen shot :oops: )

Lol, I thought the exact same thing when I was writing it. lol, mornings suck.

But you missunderstand me, it's not the stars that are difficult to see, it's the <i>missing stars</i>. When I went to the "I, robot" review, it gets 8 stars. With 8 out of ten stars, I would tend to look and see, two empty stars rather than 8 full stars. Because I can do that at a glance and don't have to count them up.

The silver stars themselves show up fine, and I think they look better than gold ones would, but it's the empty spaces that have the contrast problem. Like I said it's only a minor issue
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