Re: New Black List Thread - Franklin Leonard answers your questions
Hi Franklin,
I really appreciate the work you've put into the Blacklist and the improvements made over the past year. However, I do have a concern about the visibility of scripts hosted on the site. It could be that I'm not using the search correctly, but it doesn't appear possible to search by the script's rating, which seems like a key piece of functionality that is missing.
What if a pro wanted to find all the scripts that were a specific genre and had an average rating over 7 (or 8, etc.) Is this search possible?
It seems that the only way a screenplay will display in search results is if that script has had a certain number of reviews in a specific time period. (Such as 2 in the last month or 4 in the last year.) Since reviews come in at different times, that means that even if a script had two reviews with above average ratings it may only show up in search results for one or two weeks. It also means that a script could have two reviews and an 8 average, but if one of the reviews is 30+ days old a person's script with a 6 average and a newer review would display in the top list and the higher rated script would not.
This seems strange to me. Shouldn't the top lists actually display higher rated scripts, not ones that fall into some arbitrary time bracket?
I don't understand why the screenplay's rating isn't a searchable field? You could include a filter/date field if someone wanted to *only* see newer scripts, but why exclude highly-rated scripts that are hosted on the site from displaying in top lists? Or why can't you search by rating in a general search?
Please correct me if I've misunderstood the searching methods on the Blacklist. But if I've understood them correctly, could you please consider adding an option to search by rating to the pro's dashboards and to other searches? Or allow scripts to display that might have less than two reviews, or ratings that don't fall into a certain date range, but their average shows that they are really "top rated"?
Thanks for listening to our suggestions.
Suzanne
P.S. Another thought: what if you sorted the results in a general search by rating, also. So if I did a search for all "Animation" screenplays, the search results would be ordered from highest average rating to lowest rating. (Maybe they are sorted that way currently, but it doesn't appear that way to me. I just get a list of all animation scripts, in no particular order.)
Hi Franklin,
I really appreciate the work you've put into the Blacklist and the improvements made over the past year. However, I do have a concern about the visibility of scripts hosted on the site. It could be that I'm not using the search correctly, but it doesn't appear possible to search by the script's rating, which seems like a key piece of functionality that is missing.
What if a pro wanted to find all the scripts that were a specific genre and had an average rating over 7 (or 8, etc.) Is this search possible?
It seems that the only way a screenplay will display in search results is if that script has had a certain number of reviews in a specific time period. (Such as 2 in the last month or 4 in the last year.) Since reviews come in at different times, that means that even if a script had two reviews with above average ratings it may only show up in search results for one or two weeks. It also means that a script could have two reviews and an 8 average, but if one of the reviews is 30+ days old a person's script with a 6 average and a newer review would display in the top list and the higher rated script would not.
This seems strange to me. Shouldn't the top lists actually display higher rated scripts, not ones that fall into some arbitrary time bracket?
I don't understand why the screenplay's rating isn't a searchable field? You could include a filter/date field if someone wanted to *only* see newer scripts, but why exclude highly-rated scripts that are hosted on the site from displaying in top lists? Or why can't you search by rating in a general search?
Please correct me if I've misunderstood the searching methods on the Blacklist. But if I've understood them correctly, could you please consider adding an option to search by rating to the pro's dashboards and to other searches? Or allow scripts to display that might have less than two reviews, or ratings that don't fall into a certain date range, but their average shows that they are really "top rated"?
Thanks for listening to our suggestions.
Suzanne
P.S. Another thought: what if you sorted the results in a general search by rating, also. So if I did a search for all "Animation" screenplays, the search results would be ordered from highest average rating to lowest rating. (Maybe they are sorted that way currently, but it doesn't appear that way to me. I just get a list of all animation scripts, in no particular order.)
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