Hello Everyone!
My name is Thrownaway13 and I am the community liaison. I essentially handle community related issues.
It seems there has been a bit of an uproar about one review in particular and a lot of theories are being thrown around. So I figured that I would peel back the curtain a bit and give you an idea as to why this review is allowed.
First and foremost, we don't want to have a barrier of entry to reviews. As was explained to L&P via PM.
We think everyone should have the opportunity to rate games. Be it a fresh fish or a salty dog. If we think there is some sort of mass attack on a dev we absolutely investigate and have caught this sort of thing before. Both positive and negative.
I wont tag the user in question because I think he should be able to lurk in peace. But I did take a look at his account and there is no indication that this is some sort of targeted attack. He has no alts that have reviewed this game or made a comment, positive or negative. He simply left a review and seems to lurk when he pleases.
You can check out our rules for reviews
here. I even checked the character count to make sure it was right. There was no issue.
To take it a step further I checked other one star reviews for anything weird and nothing seemed odd.
We are always tweaking and refining the way we do things around here. When you run a site this big you have to. In this case though there is no grand conspiracy worth using 3 pages over. If we feel the review rules are wrong, they will be amended. For now though, we don't see an issue.
Thanks everyone and I hope you enjoy the game!
-Thrown-