Board Thread:Role Ideas (Neutral)/@comment-30255850-20171015211902/@comment-26234016-20171019210408

HereThereEverywhere wrote: Addfire wrote: It helps sum up opinions for the creator and other reviewers to see who's on what side of the role, and rejecting roles has been around for as long as reviewing roles have been. It's not gonna stop. You shouldn't be summing up opinions though. If someone makes a well thought out post, read all of it and don't look for an obnoxious word to tell you how they feel. It also doesn't matter what side anyone is on when it comes to a role, all that matters is what they say about it. You could be against a role and offer suggestions to make it better - the only thing that matters here is your suggestions. Some things that are around for a long time aren't good things. If you can sum up your entire opinion with one word, good for you. But that means either your opinion isn't fleshed out enough and shouldn't be posted, or the role is so utterly terrible that the only way you can describe your feelings toward it are by calling it garbage and rejecting it. The point of saying REJECTED isn't to say, "Well, I don't like this role right now, but..." it's supposed to be used, and usually is used, to convey that this role cannot be fixed. For instance, in my post above, because this was a literal hobo role it had no chance of getting past any sane reviewer. The REJECTED literally applies in the sense you said in the last sentence.

The 'rejected' is the final verdict, either it's unfixable or it isn't. I misspoke when I said that it helps sum up opinions, and that's kinda true, but what I was trying to say – and miscommunicated, I guess – was that it's the final opinion of the reviewer. For the above reasons, the role is either accepted or rejected or something in between.

ON TOP OF THAT, there's an unwritten rule that after 3-4 rejections, you shouldn't review a role. I abide by it for the most part, and I hope others do too, but putting REJECTED at the bottom of a role helps to sort that out.