Then the TER staff who edit the reviews should put in a few.

I offer as exhibit A this review of London Rayne.  It is a very good review, and well written, but how is anyone to get through it when it looks like the back of a rental car agreement?

No offense to the writer as many do this, but let's have the TER staff help us out here.

Is that too much to ask?

First of all, what makes you think they are qualified editors in the first place?

A reviewer's review should not be touched unless there are personal items that don't belong in the review and then it should be rejected and the reviewer prompted to make the edits. I believe that it has always been done that way.  

With an average of 5,000 reviews per day being submitted your idea would backlog the review process for additional days or even weeks.

Maybe 10% are qualified.  The rest get paid to show up and move pencils around.

It wouldn't take much time or be that hard to do.  One or two minutes would do the trick, and make reading the reviews so much easier.

My eyes get lost in such a sea of words.

Fisher,

The link the doesn't work.

It seems that you're advertising for LR. Why?

If those reviews bother you that much, don't read them!

Serpius

I don't think TER should edit it. But what they should do is reject it and say "put in some paragraph breaks." That would not add more 'work' or delays for them and would put editing back in the hands of the writers. (just like all other review editing currently is)

...times to look at the linked review. The first time it comes up server error. I back out and then click the link again and it goes to the review in Classic but won't allow me to see the details. Says VIP only. I know it wants me to log in to Classic. Curious, why won't it just accept that I am logged in to new and I am a VIP.

I agree that paragraph breaks are important. My first few reviews I didn't do that. I did go back before submitting and indent to show paragraphs but when it went through the TER processor had removed the indents. Now I skip a line to show the new paragraph.
I do think the best idea is to reject the review if it doesn't have breaks.

1) mrfisher is not a shill, and if he wanted to shill or advertise for anyone, first of all he wouldn't point people to a poorly written review, and secondly, why the fuck would he be shilling on the S&P board? Did you see how many reads the posts on this board gets?

2) We all know you have some issues with the lady in question and I would take bets that if it was another lady's review he pointed to, you would not have commented.

3) Long reviews without paragraph breaks suck! Mrfisher is not the only one this bothers. The topic comes up all the time. Sure we can just ignore them, but that defeats the purpose of this site! This is a review site. We are here to read reviews. If they are too difficult to read, then they are not helpful to providers or hobbyists! Personally I learned how to make paragraphs in third grade. I don't understand why people who graduated high school or college can't write.

4) This is the suggestion board. Mrf made a suggestion. You are free to ignore it.
My own opinion is that it is not TER's job to edit paragraphs, but they should just kick it back and force the reviewer to make paragraphs.

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While I disagree with pretty much everything in serp's post, the link doesn't work for me either. However, I did see the review, and yes it is very difficult to read.

I am not advertizing for LR, I just happen to follow her reviews (along with about 40 other favorites of mine) and felt frustrated that I wanted to read this review, and did so, but with considerably more difficulty than I otherwise would have had the author used a few paragraph breaks, or if the TER editor had added same.

This is the Board for Suggestions.  I pitched, you can catch or ignore this.

I'm finding now that I can not answer PMs from people from the classic and have to log on to the new one to answer the PMs from some people.

I guess it's sad but true, I'm going to have to give up my Classic TER soon.

sniff.

8o(

i make an effort to write reviews in a manner that the reader will find easy to get through.
Breaking a review into several paragraphs is more likely to get and hold the attention of the readers. The works with any lenghty document .