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Helpful / Not Helpful Buttons Broken When a Review is Reposted - FIXED

reviewed by Flick01

When a review is reposted, helpful and not helpful votes are erased, and the reviewer who originally voted on a review is unable to revote.

Flick01
07/27/2006

Helpful / Not Helpful Buttons Broken When a Review is Reposted - FIXED 5

This has been a very sore point with me and has put me at odds against the management of RIA. As my friend Genghis has pointed out, should you repost a comment, you lose all of the helpfuls and unhelpfuls associated with that review which nullifies those people who read your comment and felt that it deserved a vote one way or the other. I suppose that this "policy" was put into place to prevent people from reposting the same comment over and over in order to gain more helpfuls. In the past I have pointed out to RIA management that there are legitimate reasons for reposting a comment and one should not be "punished" for doing so, but my plea for a change has fallen upon deaf ears. For the purpose of this review I will list them here. First, I do not have a spell check program which is compatable with RIA and sometimes I discover a misspelled word, a misplaced comma, or some other grammatical error after a review has been posted. I cannot correct these mistakes without losing the helpful / unhelpful votes so I have to leave the reviews with the mistakes intact. That makes me look like a careless writer and some folks might interpret it as not being well educated. If I am writing about a critical subject such as my faith or political affiliation, the last thing that I want is to have my comments look as if they were written by someone who does not have his act together at the keyboard. After all, RIA is about WORDS and if I cannot present a well written and correctly spelled explanation of my views how can I expect anyone else to respect my opinion and possibly rethink their own stand on an issue? Second, there have been times, such as my tribute to the late talk show host Jack Paar, when further research caused me to discover some facts about his life which should be included in my comment. Under the current circumstances I cannot resubmit a more complete or accurate review without sacrificing the votes associated with that comment. It seems that RIA management is more interested in how many ads they can cram on a page, how many people you trust and can invite to the site, while past contributors like myself are given the cold shoulder and a curt "Sorry." Until this problem and others which I have mentioned in other reviews are given the priority which they deserve, and management comes to realize that there are some things which are more important than the size of the font or how many people you can recruit, I will not be the active contributor to RIA that I once was.

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magellan commented 1036 days ago.
hey flick, you can now repost without losing your helpfuls.
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