I have noticed that there may be some hesitancy to ask for a review from a stronger player.
I wonder if a button at the start of a game would be useful to indicate that both players would be interested in a review.
That takes the guessing game out of whether or not to ask for a review from someone who would rather not be asked.
Both players would have the option of pressing the “open to review” button. The same button would be indicating that they are open to both giving or receiving a review.
I’m not sure that asking everyone to have to chose everytime if he’s open to review would have a positive feedback.
IRL it’s quite common in my own experience to have at least a quick view on what we played, but habits seem to differ online. Maybe it takes too much time and effort or maybe the motivation are not the same?
Promoting review may still be something interesting, so another suggestion could be a global switch in player settings (well usually you are open to review more as one specific game).
That switch will light on/off some indicator that you are open to review.
Or if we want to keep the possible choice for each game, the switch will ask for the default choice so that you don’t have to repeat for each game.
Maybe a good place to show the indicator would be in the small popup window when you click someone name? (Besides a more extensive one in the players profile ofc).
A global review option would be more efficient. People who are open to reviewing for weaker players are, generally, more open all the time, in my experience.
Personally I don’t think an additional button for this is worth its value, whether it’s buried in settings or on the game page. Just ask your opponent for goodness sake!
There are two issues I see with having some button:
If someone is open to review, but has not selected the option
missed opportunity!
If someone has selected the option, but changes their mind (perhaps their tea kettle is boiling over)
Does this become another form of escaping?
Will mods enjoy spending time enforcing this?
I would rather see development efforts go toward improving the review tools, building a broader culture of review on OGS.
There is no enforcement about the use of this button. Mods calling, what if he don’t…
The point is to inform, suggest some practice which is far to be common on-line. Telling “just ask” is not taking in account how players use the site, maybe some of them are lacking the review culture of face to face.
Another cheap way to try this out without a site-wide option would be to encourage people who are open to do reviews to join some group to signify this. I think there are a study groups that have reviews as part of their process, but maybe @copacetic wouldn’t mind creating a group just for saying “feel free to ask me for a review, I’m usually happy to do a quick one” and advertising it a bit?
Each dropdown has 3 levels to choose from (plus a 4th option: undefined), and an automatic chat is put in game chat reflecting your and your opponent’s settings when you play a game. I think it’s a nice QoL thing
I guess the challenge (without it being a site wide feature) would be to find people to join that group and somehow letting people know they can check if their opponent is in the group to ask for a review afterwards?
I’d be happy to join the group and generally try reviewing games after they’ve finished - although I’m not sure what the best format would be for live/blitz and correspondence (I play correspondence the most).
The group description should probably offer some kind of suggestion for what the right way to ask for a review should be. Just start the review and expect the other person to join? Or should you send a DM separately or ask in the game chat? IDK if you get a notification when someone starts a review on a game you finished, or updates it?
