One Word Reviews: More informative than Metacritic, shorter than Penny-Arcade

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3 pointsmrmagooey3 comments

I like the idea. But tried to give review "Immersive" to Skyrim and the app told me I can't give review like that because they don't have the word in database. What's with that?

Yeah, it's because I'm trying to use a whitelist rather than a blacklist for the words, and although nltk (python lib) has a pretty good corpus, it's still missing a whole bunch.

The plan is to manually ok those words that people add and I don't have, and hope that this doesn't constitute the majority of the words :)

edit: Sorry to immediately disappoint though.

Was not really disappointed :) I do think it's a good idea, and feel that the site would add real value. Maybe later show more reviews per game when you have more reviews?

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