Review Rules & Guidelines

by Forumotion Bot on August 9th 2011, 4:31 am

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. This includes using the bold and colored text that we specify for requesting reviews.
You must provide us the link to your most recent review request. Cheating and providing us with false links to earlier requests will result in refusal of your request and further consequences. If it is your first review request, please specify that appropriately.
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: 500 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 are also required to provide the reviewer a reviewing account on your forum by putting

Code:: [hide][/hide]

tags in your request containing the account details if there are some hidden parts on your forum, it's already on the requesting template, make sure to put the details of the account there.
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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 [color=#00A5CD][b]Link of the thread to your last request:[/b][/color] Link of the thread here [color=#7CBA2C][b]Do you restrict access to some parts of the forum from guests such as groups,widgets,forums etc.?(Yes/No):[/b][/color] Answer here [color=#00A5CD][b]If Yes, Please provide an account for the reviewer to use:[/b][/color] [hide]Account details here[/hide]

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 [color=#7CBA2C][b]Link of the thread to your last request:[/b][/color] Link of the thread here [color=#00A5CD][b]Do you restrict access to some parts of the forum from guests such as groups,widgets,forums etc.?(Yes/No):[/b][/color] Answer here [color=#7CBA2C][b]If Yes, Please provide an account for the reviewer to use:[/b][/color] [hide]Account details here[/hide]

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][b]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 [color=#7CBA2C][b]Link of the thread to your last request:[/b][/color] Link of the thread here [color=#00A5CD][b]Do you restrict access to some parts of the forum from guests such as groups,widgets,forums etc.?(Yes/No):[/b][/color] Answer here [color=#7CBA2C][b]If Yes, Please provide an account for the reviewer to use:[/b][/color] [hide]Account details here[/hide]

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 [color=#00A5CD][b]Link of the thread to your last request:[/b][/color] Link of the thread 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 [color=#00A5CD][b]Link of the thread to your last request:[/b][/color] Link of the thread here [color=#7CBA2C][b]Do you restrict access to some parts of the forum from guests such as groups,widgets,forums etc.?(Yes/No):[/b][/color] Answer here [color=#00A5CD][b]If Yes, Please provide an account for the reviewer to use:[/b][/color] [hide]Account details here[/hide]

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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.
Generalities & Activity - 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 & Special Features - 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 only every 2 months - You can request another full review after 2 months 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 every 3 weeks - You can request another quick review after 3 weeks from your last quick review
Graphics & Design/Theme & Layout Review ~ Allowed once a month - You can request another design/theme & layout review after one month 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

by **Jophy** on November 21st 2011, 7:13 pm

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

by **Jophy** on August 25th 2012, 3:52 am

Major Updates (August 25, 2012):

Hello,

Requirement for Full review was raised for us to provide a higher quality review on a forum, whilst one, two etc. area can be requested to improve small forums to get the requirements for a Full review:

Full Review ~ Forum Posts: 500 ll Forum Members: 75

Added a new field for the templates:

Code:: [color=#00A5CD][b]Link of the thread to your last request:[/b][/color] Link of the thread here

This is for us to keep track of your requests and to be fair with the other members. If you're it's your first request, you can leave it as it is. Please be honest, if we find out that you'll link it to an older thread you requested from the past, we can simply give out warnings or either restrict you from requesting again from this section.

Update of Requesting Limits:

Full Review ~ Allowed once only every 2 months - You can request another full review after 2 months from your last full review
Quick Review ~ Allowed once every 3 weeks - You can request another quick review after 3 weeks from your last quick review
Graphics & Design/Theme & Layout Review ~ Allowed once a month - You can request another design/theme & layout review after one month from your last design/theme & layout review

Also, Full reviews are not allowed to be requested for now as we're still making changes to our current templates, Full reviews can be requested again starting August 26, 2012. Thank you for understanding.

Review Team

by **Jophy** on September 5th 2012, 8:05 am

Update (September 5, 2012):

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. This includes using the bold and colored text that we specify for requesting reviews.
You must provide us the link to your most recent review request. Cheating and providing us with false links to earlier requests will result in refusal of your request and further consequences. If it is your first review request, please specify that appropriately.

Updated by Empire_1
Review Team

by **Jophy** on May 10th 2013, 8:53 am

Update(May 9, 2013)

Hello Forumotion members!

In an effort for us(official reviewers & volunteer members) to provide a more detailed/complete reviews, we made the providing of account for the reviewer as obligatory.

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 are also required to provide the reviewer a reviewing account on your forum by putting
Code:
[hide]Account details here[/hide]
tags in your request containing the account details if there are some hidden parts on your forum, it's already on the requesting template, make sure to put the details of the account there.

You are required to provide an account if only you have hidden features on your forum or have restricted access to some parts of your forum such as groups, widgets, forums etc. This is for us to avoid providing incomplete reviews.

Note: This will not include the Quick review since it just provides the first impression details of a forum.

The changes to the templates has been made, make sure to copy, paste and fill in the details properly.

Thank you.
Review Team

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