Comments on: Jammer’s Reviews gets an upgrade

By: SlashHammer

SlashHammer — Sat, 02 Jun 2012 07:24:53 +0000

Jammer, I know that’s you don’t like Babylon 5 (and its spin offs), but some of TOS veterans (D.C. Fontana for example) working on them.
New Voyages/Phase 2 deserving to be reviewed too.
And what about very “trekkish” novels – Star Wolf sequence by David Gerrold, and Robert J. Sawyer’s (yes, that “Boarding the Enterprise”‘ guy) Starplex?

Whatever… Thanks for your site very much!
LLAP _\\//

By: Jammer

Jammer — Thu, 31 May 2012 22:14:58 +0000

The comments are easily searched by author or content because they are all in a database that is structured around very specific criteria. The reviews aren’t really set up that way. To do what you describe would require the creation of a database that I can’t even comprehend right now, populated with all kinds of different types of topics like directors, actors, writers, etc., and then I’d have to go through some 900 articles and link up all the references of everything relevant to that database, which I wouldn’t even know how to build. It’s just not feasible, I’m afraid.

By: Elliott

Elliott — Thu, 31 May 2012 16:06:57 +0000

I actually meant to bring up the hits on your site, not off–for example, if you click on a comment author, all the comments bearing his name pop up. It would be great (when, for example, you mention a particular director’s work as being “consistent” or “surprising”) to bring up a list of the episodes which you’ve reviewed, on your site, on which he/she worked.

Time-consuming though, is the magic word–maybe it’s a project for another summer…thanks for the feedback.

By: Jammer

Jammer — Mon, 28 May 2012 15:12:14 +0000

Not a bad idea in theory, but in practice it’s very time consuming, and while it might be useful as a reader feature, there is no benefit for me in putting in the extra time, as it would direct people off my site rather than to other pages on it.

By: Elliott

Elliott — Sun, 27 May 2012 03:34:38 +0000

While you’re in review mode, I wonder if it might be possible to hyperlink more things on your page, like the authors’, directors’, composers’ and actors’ names you mention. It would be neat to be able to cross-reference their work with a click…

By: Delkazyr

Delkazyr — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 23:18:35 +0000

As much as I’d like to see the final TNG episodes here, I understand your wish to update your site. I believe anybody who has finished something personally important to be published (like an oil-on-canvas painting for sale, a self-written novel or a PhD thesis) can tell that there is no satisfaction in this before you can say there is nothing that needs to be improved.

Of course, I am looking forward to reading your final reviews. But quality cannot be achieved by pushing, and quality is what made me a fan of jammersreviews.com.

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 21:32:29 +0000

Awesome. Now, finish the TNG reviews!