One of the reasons I occasionally do blog searches on FimFiction is I occasionally run across review posts I would have missed. hawthornbunny has done two random story review posts.
Of course when I said I was completely caught up, I didn't mean I had added all of my reviews to the Big Master Review List. Count myself? That would be silly! Anyway, unless there is another couple hundred reviews from another place I'm forgetting now I'm done.
So, thanks to a generous supply of motivation vis-a-vis a small money donation, I have been chugging along updating the Big Master Review List here and there. Trying to do at least one review post a day. Just today I actually updated the main info page for it on my profile here and once again got smacked in the face with the numbers involved. It's so easy to just kind of glance at things when copy/pasting authors, titles, links, typing out PresentPerfect's screen name for the 5,000th time.
I've decided that I will update the basic Big Master Review List once a month. Just to make things easier. The deluxe BMRL will be what I update when reviews come out (ideally) and the basic BMRL will get updated at the start of each month. With that established, I just did just that.
Why they so bad? Like nine out of ten youtube video reviewers of pony fan fiction are just terrible. I've gotten to the point where I'm all caught up on the BMRL but still have the energy to work on it. So I once again dipped into the video reviews bookmarks. Which once again reminded me why I don't do them as a regular thing. Half the time finding out what story is being reviewed is a struggle. Just link the damn story properly, dang it!
Almost to 15,000 total reviews linked to on the Big Master Review List. The secret is to do one of PresentPerfect's contest blogs. That was like 20 reviews all by itself. I'm pretty sure I've now typed PresentPerfect more times than I've written my own name at this point.
My own efforts revealed that the list is probably stories that only John Perry reviewed. I deleted his column when I found out his profile was gone, but apparently never did the cleanup follow-up. If you have a review of one of the previous stories, please let me know, but I'm no longer nearly as worried as I just deleted the stories from the list. If anyone has a review I'll add them back but I have to draw the line somewhere. Probably got rid of at least one non-Perry review in the purge but
List is at 9950 stories on it. Wonder what story 10,000 is going to be. That's a lot of ponyfic people have commented about. I'll probably hit it working on the backlog of reviews, so we'll never know what the *true* 10k milestone is/was I guess.
Wow. Haven't done this in a while. Someone pointed me at a non-fimfiction review of one of their stories and revealed a brand new person doing pony fan fiction reviews! The Big Master Review List continues to see all. Here is this new person. Does seem to be an in-character style of reviews that are fairly short. I didn't actually read any of them in depth since I'm trying to get through as many review linkages as possible right now.
So yeah, nowhere near actually caught up but the Big Master Review List now has a total of 10,000 titles on it.
I took the opportunity to update the basic master review list here so that the non-browser crashing version is more up to date. If someone could check to make sure the link works, I'd appreciate it. I'll do it again when I get all caught up, but that'll be months down the line.
Okay, apparently I didn't have as much backlog of my own reviews as I thought! Probably missed some here and there, but that's standard. Might go through my entire blog to check for stragglers at some point. So I decided to jump into one of the 'possible review additions' folder in my bookmarks and added 100+ reviews from a brand new reviewer. I could do that again, but... Nah.
I'm calling the Big Master Review List up to date! If you haven't checked for new reviews on your stories in a while, now might be a good time to peek at things. If there is trouble seeing things lemme know so I can spend more time wrestling with google spreadsheet sharing settings to get the damn thing to work. Grumble grumble google spreadsheets grumble.
So, trying to keep on top of the Big Master Review List. It's got almost 20,000 stories on it by nearly 4,000 authors. Which means that sometimes things fall through the cracks. Sometimes small things. Sometimes not-so-small things.
Such as the approximately 100 stories that I apparently added to the list and then never linked a review for. Normally there is a handful, but apparently I haven't checked in a while and holy carp they built up!
For those of you who might not know, I just recently got the Big Master Review List fully updated. Even added some video reviews. Just a few, since I don't follow many of them. Mostly just the post-update fidgeting where I run out of text review posts but still have energy.
Just got finished catching up with all of PresentPerfect's reviews that I had bookmarked.
Now I just have to handle the reviews from everyone else.
Been nice keeping on top of the BMRL so that I'm getting reviews added more or less right when they come out. Though also leads to be finding out mistakes I made. Like having 8 stories from an author under someone else's name for some bizarre reason. Which have apparently been like that for who knows how long. Ugh. So glad I found and fixed that but now I can't help but think there is another big one like that somewhere in there.
Pretty much caught up on working through the backlog of review posts to add links on the Big Master Review List. Including a reviwer that I thought had stopped, but instead has been going a while and I just didn't notice because the blogpost titles didn't have review in them. Hopefully I will be able to keep up with things for the near future.
Anyway! Point of the post is to mention that there is now over 20,000 reviews linked on the list. There are too many ponyfic reviews out there.
Alright, all caught up on both PaulAsaran and Titanium Dragon reviews. As far as I can tell anyway.
Also, this is a public service announcement. The title 'Family Matters' is no longer allowed for ponyfic. Got four of them on the BMRL and I'm sure there is at least one other out there somewhere. So think of something else!
3,500 authors on the list. Which means 3,500 people I've poked with the bookshelf notification! Yes, truly I live the dream. I've bothered thousands of people without resorting to social media.
Probably about halfway done catching up with Louder Yay. Also found a few other new reviewers that I've been adding in. With one in the bookmark folder. At the pace I'm going I should be done with catching up by the end of the weekend.
Also, at the moment there are exactly 3333 authors on the BMRL. Also, Titanium Dragon is now a 1080r dragon. The r stands for reviews, of course.
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