Unofficial tracker and list for the 2014 Critique thread

[Garrett Guillotte]

As last year, I'm tracking the items and reviews posted to the 2014 Critique My Wondrous Item thread in a Google Doc.

If you posted an item, it should help you find reviews of your item. If you're reviewing items, it should help you find items that haven't been reviewed.

If you're just a fan, you can use it as an index to find any items put up for critique.

(If you're curious, here's last year's doc, which Ziv Wities and I worked on.)

[Donald Robinson]

Awesome! Thank you!

[Amy Gillespie]

Leave it to gamers to be adept at sorting spreadsheets and Google Docs!

[Papasteve08]

Speechless at the awesomeness of that google doc. Wow.

[Rich Malena]

This is a beautiful thing. I absolutely appreciate the work you're putting into this! Thank you!

[Chris Shaeffer]

Garrett, you beautiful bastard.

[Nickolas Floyd]

Wow. That's a lot of work. I salute you and your effort. Bravo.

[x93edwards]

Fantastic. Thank you.

[I'M INCREDIBLE!]

Absolutely amazing. Thank you very much!

[Bryan Bloomer]

Garrett Guillotte wrote:

As last year, I'm tracking the items and reviews posted to the 2014 Critique My Wondrous Item thread in a Google Doc.

If you posted an item, it should help you find reviews of your item. If you're reviewing items, it should help you find items that haven't been reviewed.

If you're just a fan, you can use it as an index to find any items put up for critique.

(If you're curious, here's last year's doc, which Ziv Wities and I worked on.)

You, sir, are an absolute wizard. And a data-miner's wet dream. Thank you :)

[Garrett Guillotte]

Heading to bed, but here's some stats on the day 1 of the official critique thread* and, I suppose, the start of the Blazing 9 pre-season:

• 95 items posted
  
• 58 items have reviews
  
• 10 reviews: 1 item
  
• 5-9 reviews: 5 items
  
• 3-4 reviews: 11 items
  
• 2 reviews: 10 items
  
• 1 review: 31 items
  
• 0 reviews: 37 items
  
• Thread page with the most 0-review items: Page 4 (14 items)

* Stats don't yet include the broken-out threads by GM_Solspiral, Bryan Bloomer, and Saint Caleth, or the fact that Steven Helt is still reviewing items right now!

[Garrett Guillotte]

Thanks to GM_Solspiral and Lucus Palosaari, every item on Page 1 has gotten at least 2 reviews! Page 2 is also well covered with at least 3 reviews per item.

Pages 3 and 4 are particularly dry, with 9 unreviewed items on Page 3 and 12 unreviewed items on Page 4. (There's a total of 12 unreviewed items on pages 5-7 combined.)

[Garrett Guillotte]

Thanks to GM_Solspiral, every item on Page 3 now has at least 1 review!

[Garrett Guillotte]

Garrett Guillotte wrote:

Thanks to GM_Solspiral, every item on Page 3 now has at least 1 review!

Actually, it looks like the Lantern of Solace on Page 3 did not get a review.

[Milton Murphy]

Garrett Guillotte wrote:

As last year, I'm tracking the items and reviews posted to the 2014 Critique My Wondrous Item thread in a Google Doc.

If you posted an item, it should help you find reviews of your item. If you're reviewing items, it should help you find items that haven't been reviewed.

If you're just a fan, you can use it as an index to find any items put up for critique.

(If you're curious, here's last year's doc, which Ziv Wities and I worked on.)

Many thanks for the effort of putting this together. Very helpful!

[Garrett Guillotte]

Every item on Pages 1 and 2 has at least 4 reviews!

Only 2 of the 42 items on Pages 3 and 4 have at least 4 reviews. Eight have no reviews.

Every item on Page 5 has at least 1 review!

Seven of the 15 items on Page 6 have no reviews.

Eight of the 10 items on Page 7 have no reviews.

Both of the items on Page 8 have at least 1 review!

[frank gori]

Garrett Guillotte wrote:

Actually, it looks like the Lantern of Solace on Page 3 did not get a review.

Thanks for the heads up I got it now...

[Garrett Guillotte]

Thanks to GM_Solspiral, every item on Page 4 now has at least 1 review!

This means each item on Pages 1-5—the first 91 submitted items—has at least 1 review. Out of the 117 items posted to the critique thread, 103 (88%) have been reviewed at least once, with a staggering total of 363 reviews posted.

That's some amazing work for just two days! Thanks to everyone providing feedback.

Some quick stats:

29 items have 1 review
19 items have 2 reviews
11 items have 3 reviews
12 items have 4 reviews
7 items have 5 reviews
7 items have 6 reviews
4 items have 7 reviews
3 items have 8 reviews
1 item has 9 reviews
3 items have 10 reviews
5 items have 11 reviews
1 item has 12 reviews
...
1 item has 17 reviews (Provocateur’s Pamphlet, by Bryan Bloomer, who appears to also be using the pamphlet :D )

27 items are on Page 1, with 194 reviews associated with them (7.2 reviews/item).
10 items are on Page 2, with 39 reviews associated with them (3.9 reviews/item).
20 items are on Page 3, with 40 reviews associated with them (2 reviews/item).
22 items are on Page 4, with 39 reviews associated with them (1.8 reviews/item).
11 items are on Page 5, with 25 reviews associated with them (2.3 reviews/item).
15 items are on Page 6, with 18 reviews associated with them (1.2 reviews/item). Six of the 15 items (40%) have no reviews.
10 items are on Page 7, with 5 reviews associated with them (0.5 reviews/item). Eight of the 10 items (80%) have no reviews.
2 items are on Page 8, with 3 reviews associated with them (1.5 reviews/item).

[Aeris Fallstar]

Holy cow. Dude, you are Bad @$$.

I can't thank you enough.

[MicMan]

Thanks a lot! That is quite some work you are doing for the benefit of anyone involved.

[Rasputin17]

This is both brilliant and extremely helpful. Can't thank you enough.

[Garrett Guillotte]

Thanks to GM_Solspiral, every item on Page 6 now has at least 1 review! Also, every item on Pages 8 and 9 has at least one review!

There are only six items left with no reviews, all on Page 7.

[frank gori]

Garrett Guillotte wrote:

There are only six items left with no reviews, all on Page 7.

Not for long

[Garrett Guillotte]

EVERY ITEM ON PAGES 1-9 HAS A REVIEW! WOOOOOO!

Thanks to GM_Solspiral for taking on the last unreviewed items, all on Page 7. Y'all are crushing it, it's amazing to watch.

[Garrett Guillotte]

I've now included tags in the list for items in the critique thread that made this year's Top 100. There's still several Top 100 items that have one or fewer reviews.

[frank gori]

I'm opening a beer because I'm done for the time being

Edit: we don't open bears it's rude :P

[Jacob W. Michaels]

Don't let the bear maul you! ;)

[Matt Banach]

GM_Solspiral wrote:

I'm opening a bear because I'm done for the time being

And crawling inside it, like a tauntaun? I get it, it is really cold where I live, too. You get used to the smell, I hear.

[frank gori]

Okay wiseguys you write 134 in depth critiques in 2 days...

ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED

[Matt Banach]

GM_Solspiral wrote:

Okay wiseguys you write 134 in depth critiques in 2 days...

ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED

You're a champion. Enjoy that bear - you've earned it! (Very seriously, what you're doing here is great. Thank you, huzzah, and keep it up!)

[Saint Caleth]

GM_Solspiral wrote:

Okay wiseguys you write 134 in depth critiques in 2 days...

ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED

Holy s~!~, dude how do you write critiques that good that quickly. As someone working way slower I'm seriously impressed.

[Daethor]

Haha, Garrett. Nice job on renaming Bryan Bloomer's thread in your Google Doc. I did a double take when I saw that and had a big grin when I confirmed what it said. Also, it's true! :)

[Garrett Guillotte]

There's 29 items from the Top 100 list in the Critique thread; with the Top 32, nearly two-thirds of 2014's Top 100 are available to the public for review.

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Most active posters in the Critique thread, minimum 10 posts:

44 theheadkase
36 StevenTHelt
36 Phloid
36 MrCab
34 mamaursula
34 FaxCelestis
30 Nazard
28 Darkjoy
26 MythrilDragon
20 ThomasLeBlanc
20 Aoann
18 DeathQuaker
14 ZionDarkbane
14 Scorba
14 Kaartus
12 x93edwards
12 Jiggy
12 Feros (who's reviewed several pages of items)
10 Rysky
10 motteditor

These are raw post counts, not numbers of reviews. Just wanted to tip my hat to those participating. (RonarsCorruption also deserves a shout-out for posts contain several reviews each.)

[Andrew Black]

Garrett Guillotte wrote:

There's 29 items from the Top 100 list in the Critique thread; with the Top 32, nearly two-thirds of 2014's Top 100 are available to the public for review.

Most active posters in the Critique thread, minimum 10 posts:

26 MythrilDragon

I think you may have miss counted, I haven't reviewed that many..... yet. :)

[Monica Marlowe]

Garrett Guillotte wrote:

There's 29 items from the Top 100 list in the Critique thread; with the Top 32, nearly two-thirds of 2014's Top 100 are available to the public for review.

Most active posters in the Critique thread, minimum 10 posts:

34 mamaursula

I believe this is a flat count of number of times I have posted. I am chatty and I tried really hard not to be so there, but 34 reviews? Really? I need to check my profile post list.

[frank gori]

Saint Caleth wrote:

GM_Solspiral wrote:

Okay wiseguys you write 134 in depth critiques in 2 days...

ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED

Holy s#!~, dude how do you write critiques that good that quickly. As someone working way slower I'm seriously impressed.

Step one write review template

Step two having voted close to 4k times I have yet to come across an item I haven't read several times before so I already had opinions. the rest is just typing

Sometimes I have to slow down and think about the positive feedback on the lower scoring items or the negatives on the items I love. It takes a moment to sort what criticisms are nitpicking as opposed to the critical issue which I save for the ugly. It helps that I'm decisive. I didn;t use the both button once.

[Allana Sliwinski]

GM_Solspiral wrote:

Okay wiseguys you write 134 in depth critiques in 2 days...

ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED

You're epic.

[Kiel Howell]

If it weren't for the bloody amount of work at work right now then I'd be there with GM_Solspiral.

But he is good at reviewing :)

[Garrett Guillotte]

Andrew Black wrote:

I think you may have miss counted, I haven't reviewed that many..... yet. :)

mamaursula wrote:

I believe this is a flat count of number of times I have posted. I am chatty and I tried really hard not to be so there, but 34 reviews? Really? I need to check my profile post list.

Yes, those are raw post counts, not reviews. Sorry for the confusion.

[Feros]

Hey! I got my own entry in the doc! Thanks so much Garrett, I didn't even have my own thread or anything!

:D

[Andrew Black]

Wow Feros, you are a beast!

[Garrett Guillotte]

Feros wrote:

Hey! I got my own entry in the doc! Thanks so much Garrett, I didn't even have my own thread or anything!

:D

You did just review every item on the first 10 pages, every single item. It didn't seem fair to not break that sort of effort out!

[frank gori]

This thread made it easier to get everyone critiques with fewer misses.

Thanks Garrett Guillotte

[Garrett Guillotte]

Added Covent's Critiques to the tracker!

[Covent]

Garrett Guillotte wrote:

Added Covent's Critiques to the tracker!

Thanks, Garrett. Gonna try and catch up ASAP.

[Garrett Guillotte]

A very close friend of mine died overnight and I won't be updating the tracker or participating in the boards for the next several days. I've opened up editing on the GDoc to everyone. The critique thread has slowed down quite a bit anyway.

[DiamondDustDealer]

Garrett Guillotte wrote:

A very close friend of mine died overnight

So sorry for your loss; my condolences.

[Curaigh]

Thank you for what you've done Garrett,

Best wishes to your friend's family and to you.

[Kiel Howell]

I'll keep you and the friend's family in prayers. Sorry to hear about the loss.

[Andrew Black]

May you and your family, the family of your dear friend, and all who knew them find peace and comfort as they grieve the loss and celebrate the life of someone worthy to love.