If you really wanted to read them, they exist on the main page so it's not like I'm saying delete them but rather remove them from here where we have to see them every week by NON MEMBERS.

It's not just old scripts, it's the dozen or so every few weeks that nobody owns.

Now, if that were to happen you wouldn't have to spend years campaigning to get reads because people know you're here and every read will be appreciated unlike right now when the reads go to a thread by some guy or girl who never comes by.

Do you enjoy spending more time to get reads than you spent writing the script just because your script is lost by clutter and crap that Joe Blow wrote whom doesn't care that his script got a review?

How about, when you submit a script, if the Discussion Board User Name field is left blank, then the script gets posted on the main site but it doesn't get a thread on the message board?

That might comb out some of those threads where the writer is never around any way.

I'm certainly up for Sniper's idea. I enjoy reading scripts from a variety of writers on these boards and certainly do not read a script only because I want the writer to read mine in return, I gain as much from reading a script (good and bad) as I do from a well thought out  piece of feedback on my own.

But sometimes when I have taken the time to read and review a script and the writer never seems to come back you do wonder whether I should have spent the time reading someone else's script instead - there are many people on these board who put the work in on a daily basis that keeps this site going. Nothing is more annoying that only having a few reads of my own script when someone who never comes to the board gets dozens.

Remember the guy recently who spent 2 weeks complaining that his script was not being posted and not once bothered to read anyone else's while he waited! he got more reads than me!

So I would be well up for only members scripts appearing in the discussion board, maybe allow the admins to put a non members script in here if they feel it would be beneficial to the group i.e. it is very good or worth reading.

Unless it's me, George Willson, Guy Jackson, or any of the others whose username is their real name, people should be able to tell right away whether someone is a member or not, and choose to not read a script at their discretion.

It gets a little tougher with people who've set up accounts and are hardly around, but that should be somewhat easy to spot as well.

When someone posts his/her first script, there's no way of telling if he/she is active on the board right away....unless he/she writes, "Hi, I'm new here.  Please read my/my script."

I still like the idea of putting the writer's user name next to his/her real name in the writing credits.


Phil

Quoted from A Review I only read the first ten pages or so and then other pages randomly but i have to say i didn't like it at all. I thought the writing was immature and stale. Was this a labor of love or a thing you did for fun. What's with character's talking for like five sentences without anyone else saying anything. It happens all over the place and does that really happen in real life????????????? I hope you don't take it personally but if you do then maybe that means you actually want a career in this business. Can't wait to rip your next thing. Remember, your only as good as your bank account says you are and you my non-friend, are not good. But i hope you can prove me wrong.

What about this one?  If you were a mod, would you leave it or delete it?

Why?

I'd say the first part of the review is acceptable, although some examples would be nice.

For example: "I thought the writing was immarture and stale." - okay, give us an example of what you thought was 'immature' and 'stale.'

Also, the whole "what's with the character's talking for like five sentences..." needs examples too.

But the last two sentances do not offer anything to the writer. Infact, they sound arrogant and unwarranted. We are here to help each other, not rip each other.

As Stew said, some examples would be good, but otherwise it was fine until:

Quoted Text I hope you don't take it personally but if you do then maybe that means you actually want a career in this business. Can't wait to rip your next thing. Remember, your only as good as your bank account says you are and you my non-friend, are not good. But i hope you can prove me wrong.

Everything after the "but if you do" lost all credibility with this reviewer.  If this review was on something of mine I'd look at this and be like...okay, you're hoping I don't take the review personally...but then just in case I do you try to put me in my place and rip me a new one?  Up yours, man.  

I'd still let it stay because the review actually has a tad of feedback that may be useful(key word: tad), but the reviewer really makes it look like they're stuffing a sock down their pants in a really, really foolish way.  "But if you do." .... Dude, what?

Quoted from bert What about this one?  If you were a mod, would you leave it or delete it?

If in doubt - kick it out.

Hey, it rhymed.

The review started of fine but then spiralled into something extremely unproductive and rather personal. I don't know if the author of the script in question were bad mouthing reviewers but that last part was totally uncalled for.

Thanks for the input, guys.  I was not sure last night, but today I have decided to delete it.

While there was some genuine feedback there -- albeit only marginally useful -- the official ruling is that personal attacks such as this --

Quoted from Reviewer Remember, your only as good as your bank account says you are and you my non-friend, are not good.

-- should generally trump the other aspects in what is an otherwsie marginal review.

Not only was he calling the author a bad writer, I think he was also calling him a broke writer!  How cruel is that?

"Not only was he calling the author a bad writer, I think he was also calling him a broke writer!  How cruel is that?"

Cruel or not, it's completely absurd and uninformed to imply a fat bank account = talent. Let me name, just off the top of my head, some great writers who lived and/or died poor...

Edgar Allen Poe, George Orwell, James Agee, Walt Whitman, Jack Kerouac, and this hack of a writer some of you may have heard of named Herman Melville died very poor.
Anyhow, nice rules regarding the regulation of the comment boards. As I'm new here, I'll keep them in mind. Most of them aught to be common sense to the earnest, thoughtful and sincere writer.  

Common sense is not an internet trait.

I suppose not. People seemed to toss all self-censorship to the wind without their words being attached to their face. It can be entertaining to a point but, as is evidenced above, it becomes a hindrance. Anyhow...