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1. Kevin Makice added these pithy words on August 9, 2006 | Permalink

   I’m having second thoughts (and sour grapes) about this site. I registered shortly after this post and started interacting with it. Fearing massive time-suckage, I set down some ground rules:

   1. No more than 1 review per calendar day
   2. No more than 1 entry (accepted or not) per movie

   Turns out there is some inner circle (or maybe just the owner of the site) who screens the pending submissions. I don’t know the history of the site, so it’s a bit difficult to judge … but that seems to defeat the purpose of having a site gets its content from its members. It also produces a bottleneck and makes the decisions appear a bit arbitrary (as in, this got in, but mine didn’t???)

   I got my first one in — “J Cruella fashion show.” to describe 101 Dalmations — but scuffled since:

   • “J Cruella fashion show.” (101 Dalmations) - Accepted
   • “Doesn’t go to eleven” (10 Things I Hate About You) - Declined twice, as Factually incorrect
   • “Jo’s way? no pay” (The Wages of Fear) - Pending
   • “Couldn’t be my dad” (The 40 Year-Old Virgin) - Declined, not resubmitted
   • “News blurb promotes Ford” (All The Presiden’ts Men) - Pending
   • “Bewitched at birth” (Matilda) - Declined as too generic, resubmitted
   • “Doom buggies” (The Swarm) - Pending
   • “I see Red people” (The Manchurian Candidate) - Pending

   While none of those are “reviews” in the strictest sense, even the FAQ on the site says that that is a requirement in name-of-site only. It quickly became apparent that plot descriptions and witty puns were more common. Whether or not my submissions fall into any of those categories, they definitely aren’t out of line with the range of reviews already up on the site.

2. Kevin Makice added these pithy words on August 20, 2006 | Permalink

   It’s amazing. I did a google search for my last name today, to see if anything different came up from the U.S. version (I’m in Denmark at the moment). #4 on the list - already - is my minimal contribution to FWFR.