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[08/29/00] - Hi, Google here, Paws is having some nasty connection problems,
So she roped me into doing an update for her. Anyway, since I have some intro space to kill, bare with
me for a moment. Whenever a staff member posts a review, tons of people tend to write in to the author,
and webmaster, and me, foaming at the mouth about something in the subscores, which is covered quite
thoroughly in the body of the review. Now, when I see something like this, I get the impression people
aren't reading the reviews themselves. Obviously anyone submitting a review is sure of their opinion,
and willing to here feedback on it, positive or negative, but before you chew someone out, make sure
You've read all they have to say. That's all the preaching I'll be doing for now, thanks for bearing with
me. Paws should be back soon with an early update for next week.
Review Writing BooBoos
AOHell
AOL drives me batty. They have some sort of parental shields which, since RPGamer has no rating with them, block all emails from me. Please do NOT submit from AOL. If you have submitted in the past from AOL and gotten no response, chances are your review went into the garbage because it was rejected and I had no way of contacting you. If you use AOL and wish to submit, please go get a free email account on the internet. Sites such as excite, hotmail, and yahoo! may be substandard to some people, but at least they're free and most give you 2000KB of space for email. This of course applies more to future submissions and/or people who have previously submitted and gotten no answer. Those who have successfully submitted from AOL (CLOUDBONDOO7 comes to mind as one) need not worry.
A few reminders
Just some little reminders that need to be touched upon:
-Please, please, if you can, archive (like zip or sit) your review! It makes submissions so much easier for me to handle. Winzip, for example, is free, and is very small (I run it off my not so nice computer just fine), so please remember ;)
-Please include a title to your review whether it is HTMLized or in text format. Reiterating the game name is not a title, and I will be no longer accepting reviews with no titles.
-Please do not use 2 different emails when submitted (such as emailing from one and putting another one on the review, submitting the review twice from 2 different emails, etc. Use the email to submit what you want to appear on the review.
-Please remember two 'two updates' rule of thumb. If for some reason your review doesn't go up the first update that goes by, please do not spam my box with another copy of the reviews with no explanation (actually, no spamming it at all thanks). If it somehow gets missed, email me back withOUT the review.
- Anna Marie "Paws" Whitehead
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