Originally posted by veru_skjava
Hello again,

I have a question for the regular reviewers. When you read and reveiw, do you go back to your reviews after updates?

I am following with great interest Raiders Dungeon, and though rarely do I reply to a review, I did here.

Boccacio gave some excellent feedback to the story, and the author took note.

I am just curious, as to wether revisions to previous reviews are common practice.

Thanks everyone

veru skjava
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Veru raises a good question. There are two problems.

I see now that at some point Veru appended a comment on the Review page to my review of "Raiders" noting that a 'flaw' (IMO)that I had mentioned had been corrected. But unfortunately, I had no idea that her comment had been posted or that the 'flaw' had been addressed. I'm not really asking for this, at this point, Jinn, but is it feasible that an e-mail could be sent to reviewers indicating that a comment had been appended to a review? Don't do it (yet) -- I'm just asking the question.

The second problem is that if a story is in installments and I read the first installment or two and give it less than an excellent score/review, the chances are that I may never come back to it to see if the problems (as I saw them) have been addressed. There are only so many hours in the day, and there is a constant flow of new stories. So, to answer your question, Veru, I don't believe that I have had occasion to change the score of a review that I have written. But now that you have called my attention to the 'improvements', I'll try to revisit the story in question.

My experience, in terms of not revisiting many of the installments I have reviewed, may not be typical. But surely, if others are doing similarly, it provides all the more incentive, fellow writers, to make that first installment as polished and entertaining as you possibly can -- some readers may not have time to give it a second chance. Although I think that most readers, including me, would give a new story by that same author a second chance.

I would like to second Moggy's comment that one should not normally pre-judge a story based on one person's opinion (unless you have found that your tastes coincide very closely with those of the reviewer in question). And that is why we'd both like to see more people get involved in the process; if you do, you'll find, I think, that you begin to read other people's reviews with almost as much interest as you read the stories.

Boccaccio