Review Rules & Guidelines

Forumotion Bot at 12h31

Aug

2011

Review Guidelines

Requesting Rules

Quick Rules

Forumotion forums only! If you're forum is not from forumotion, we will simply refuse it.
Bumping your request for attention is permitted, but the post must be separated from your last post with a 72 hour time span. If a member has tagged your review, bumping will no longer be necessary, but patience will be.
Reviewer Harassment is prohibited. You may not disturb the reviewer while he is in the process of completing your request. You must be patient and wait for your free review.
If your request is not in the proper format, we will refuse it. We ask that you post in the given formats so that we may begin to review your forum.
The review section also follows the rules of the forum itself. You may find the rules in each section as a Global Announcement, or you can access them here.
Only Administrators of your forum can request a review here. If you are not an Administrator, you may not request for a review. If your Administrators group is hidden, you must post a screenshot of the group itself proving that you are an Administrator.
All forums that are requested to be reviewed must be in English! If it is not in English, your request will be refused.
Any further questions regarding reviews can be asked in our [Only Topic] "Questions about Reviews" located here.
Once your review has been tagged, no one else may tag it. The tagger must complete it unless he/she requests that it be un-tagged due to an issue.
Please read our Review Section Policy regarding reviews done by members
You can't mark your own topic completed. Only reviewers have the right to mark a review official, and change the topic icon to completed.

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Review Type Requirements

All requirements are for your forum, and not the support forum (to avoid confusion).
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Full Review ~ Forum Posts: 350 ll Forum Members: 75
Two Area Review ~ Forum Posts: 200 ll Forum Members: 45
One Area Review ~ Forum Posts: 30 ll Forum Members: 15
Quick Review ~ Forum Posts: 30 ll Forum Members: 5
Graphics & Design/Theme & Layout ~ Forum Posts: 0 ll Forum Members: 0

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Requesting Templates

To request your forum to be reviewed, simply create a new topic, and put in the following codes according to what type of review your forum has the requirements for. Please don't edit the "Type of Review" field as it is completed for you already according to what type of review you want. You may also provide the reviewer a reviewing account on your forum by putting

Code:: [hide][/hide]

tags in your request containing the account details.
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Full Review:

Code:: [color=#00A5CD][b]Name of the Forum:[/b][/color] Information Here [color=#7CBA2C][b]Address:[/b][/color] Information Here [color=#00A5CD][b]Type of Review (Do not Edit):[/b][/color] [u]Full Review[/u] [b][color=#7CBA2C]Your Name on the board:[/b][/color] Information here

Two Area Review:

Code:: [color=#00A5CD][b]Name of the Forum:[/b][/color] Information Here [color=#7CBA2C][b]Address:[/b][/color] Information Here [color=#00A5CD][b]Type of Review (Do not Edit):[/b][/color] [u]Two Area Review[/u] [color=#7CBA2C][b]The two areas you want your forum to be reviewed in:[/b][/color] Information Here [b][color=#00A5CD]Your Name on the board:[/b][/color] Information here

One Area Review:

Code:: [color=#00A5CD][b]Name of the Forum:[/b][/color] Information Here [color=#7CBA2C][b]Address:[/b][/color] Information Here [color=#00A5CD][b]Type of Review (Do not Edit):[/b][/color] [u]One Area Review[/u] [color=#7CBA2C]The area you want your forum to be reviewed in:[/b][/color] Information Here [b][color=#00A5CD]Your Name on the board:[/b][/color] Information here

Quick Review:

Code:: [color=#00A5CD][b]Name of the Forum:[/b][/color] Information Here [color=#7CBA2C][b]Address:[/b][/color] Information Here [color=#00A5CD][b]Type of Review (Do not Edit):[/b][/color] [u]Quick Review[/u] [b][color=#7CBA2C]Your Name on the board:[/b][/color] Information here

Graphics & Design/Theme & Layout (No Requirements Review):

Code:: [color=#00A5CD][b]Name of the Forum:[/b][/color] Information Here [color=#7CBA2C][b]Address:[/b][/color] Information Here [color=#00A5CD][b]Type of Review (Do not Edit):[/b][/color] [u]Graphics & Design/Theme & Layout (No Requirements Review)[/u] [b][color=#7CBA2C]Your Name on the board:[/b][/color] Information here

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Official Forum Areas (Two & One Area Reviews Only)

These are the only areas you can put when requesting a two or one area review. These can't be used for any other type of review, but only the two and one area reviews.
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Quick Review - The first impressions of a reviewer on the forum, the review gives the pros and cons of the forum.
Graphical & Design/Theme & Layout - Description (Don't put in Request!): The graphics of you're forum and it's overall design put into a short summary of about one paragraph.
General - Description (Don't put in Request!): This aspect involves looking over at the how many staff/user groups there are, the staff/user activity, the number of messages posted on the forum and number of users on the forum.
Originality - Description (Don't put in Request!): When you request Originality as a review, the reviewer will describe what's unique about your forum, and what isn't. The reviewer will also provide ideas that can make your forum unique in more ways than one, all in one short paragraph.

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Requesting Limits

All review requests must be separated by a time span of 2 Weeks. Aside from that, certain review types can't be requested until a certain amount of time from that same review type.
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Full Review ~ Allowed once a month - You can request another full review after one month from your last full review
Two Area Review ~ Allowed twice a month - You can request another two area review after a full two weeks from your last two area review
One Area Review ~ Allowed twice a month - You can request another one area review after a full two weeks from your last one area review
Quick Review ~ Allowed once a month - You can request another quick review after a full month from your last quick review
Graphics & Design/Theme & Layout Review ~ Allowed twice a month - You can request another design/theme & layout review after a two weeks from your last design/theme & layout review

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Reviewing Rules

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Reviewing Rules & Regulations

All members that wish to review forums must follow these rules accordingly!
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If you have tagged a review, and there isn't a post after your last post, then please edit your last post on that topic (most likely the tagged post you made). If there is a post after your last post, then feel free to post the review in a brand new post.
To tag a review, simply say "Tagged" and however long you will take to complete it. Please don't use bold/colored text as this is reserved for staff moderation only.
Multi-Tagging is not permitted! If you have a review already tagged, you must first complete that review before tagging another.
Stamps/sign grades used by the reviewers are not allowed to used by members, this is reserved for the staff, but if you have your own stamp/sign grades, you can use it.
Reviews created by members are not official until an official reviewer has seen it, and made their corrections. You will know if your review is official once we put the "Completed" icon on that topic.
If you tagged a review and are unable to complete it within three days, please contact any available reviewer, and describe your issue.
All General Rules will be enforced.

Cordially,
The Review Team

1 Jophy, on 22/11/2011 at 03h13

Hello,

We recently increased the requirements for the number of reviews to be requested, please take note of the changes.

Full Review ~ Forum Posts: 350 ll Forum Members: 75
Two Area Review ~ Forum Posts: 200 ll Forum Members: 45

We've increased the requirements to provide a more detailed/meaningful review for your requests in terms of users, activity etc. of a forum. Thanks!

Review Team