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	[quote name="Ice Cream Jonsey"][quote name="Mischief Maker"]As has been said by multiple posters elsewhere, Caltrops/OMM have always been at their best when reviewing games, and at their worst (often fatally) when it devolves into a soap opera. Unfortunately, the current system for frontpaging reviews, (ICJ notices then hand-codes the link), is ineffective and many useful reviews get lost in the clutter. Useful reviews that could snag new readers. I suggest implementing a new button next to preview and post by which posters can flag their posts as reviews. Bonus: add a pull-down menu to select type of media (videogame, movie, TV show, webseries, book, comic book, etc.) and a radio button for (Positive/Neutral/Negative). Super Bonus: Instead of listing the eight most recent posts on the frontpage, only list review-flagged posts, and just include the thread title, media type, and opinion.[/quote] I've been thinking about this a lot since you posted. I think the following flow could work in the real world, and it is stuff I can code: There's a button for "review" next to preview. If you click the button, two drop down menus appear. One for media and one for positive!/negative!. If you do it correctly, the post populates a new table on the DB for a review. We store the link, handle, date, pid and post contents. There is also a field that defaults to negative for "live." A trigger on the DB then sends me an email so I know there's a review waiting. I can click on the link, authenticate, and make the post "live." This way we stop any positive reviews of Africa from appearing on the front page. Wait I meant HIV-positive! Reviewing an entire people as HIV-negative and having "negative" appear shouldn't cause any problems to outsiders. Now from here it's easy to have an RSS feed with the latest, but the ideal is to have it show up as a Wordpress post. I know there's ways to make email appear as Wordpress articles. But for "phase one" we could have it appear in an RSS and be displayed on the site. I'd like it as a giant Wordpress article, myself. I can code all of this. The only obstacle is I don't have the syntax for PHP memorized. If this was my job I could do it in a few days. I need a staging environment but I have so many Linux machines around the house at this point that that's fine. I also need to take the opportunity to fix the accented character problem (which is why Quentinbec's name doesn't show). OK, first things first. I'll get a staging environment going. "Boys, let's get to it!" -- <i>Michael Bolton</i> ICJ [/quote]