gwern comments on Writing reviews instead of collecting - Less Wrong

7 Post author: DSimon 17 February 2011 11:27PM

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Comment author: gwern 18 February 2011 12:24:51AM 4 points [-]

If you don't really care about contributing to someone else's bottomline, then it seems to me that Amazon is what you want. You can rank pretty much everything, can write short public reviews, get recommendations, maintain wishlists, see a pretty list of your existing stuff...

Comment author: DSimon 19 February 2011 05:55:02PM 0 points [-]

Amazon's interface really is pretty good, but unfortunately it doesn't allow reviewing stuff for which there isn't physical media (i.e. games which are only available online, such as Minecraft, or free games, like much of the Interactive Fiction scene).

This kind of contradicts my original reason for needing to keep an online review tracker, but it's significant: I need to be able to think of this as a (at least potentially) thorough log of experiences in a given media, or I don't think it will satisfy my magpie instincts.