Thanks very much everyone. I'm steadily making it through.
A couple of things-
I was not aware that people's reviews are disappearing. Totally new to me. I will have to check each and every one, so please be patient.
But for some of you, you're just unfamiliar with the process so I guess I need more stickies.
If your review submission lacks details, I will reject it. ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING that skips the "Private Details" section gets rejected, period. Don't try to argue the point. I'm gonna reject it, period.
One of you said "watered down"
That's fine. If it's so watered down that you didn't put anything in the private details, now you know what happened. But if you just meant that you weren't explicit with the details, I'm perfectly fine with that. I will approve it.
Now, if I reject a review, it doesn't go away. It stays there. There was a piece of garbage posted the other day that didn't even have 30% of the fields filled out. I rejected it, yet there was a whole thread of people griping that it got approved. It didn't. And I wouldn't.
My requirement for approval: Your review needs to be of value to the readers.
Yep, it's subjective. it's based on my opinion and mine alone. If I add a few moderators, then it will be based on their opinions too. All boards work that way, so may as well be straight up about it.
Speaking of that, that's what you'll always get from me. I will be straight up and honest. You may not always like my answer, but you'll grow to appreciate my approach.
I am disappointed as hell to hear that reviews are disappearing, and I will work like hell to get that fixed.
And I'm sorry for the time lapse in approving reviews. Real life got in my way.
Finally if you wrote more reviews than what your count shows, then either I haven't got to them yet. (Im caught up except the past few days) or I rejected it. Your count won't go up if I reject your review.
One final note, I am noticing that there are some of you who are doing a damn good job of contributing to this site trying to make it your new home. I want to thank you for that. I am noticing. I am starting to randomly add private access time to those of you and you know who you are.
It's a blessing. For me to be able to go away to tend to my deceased mother and then come back and find only a few fires to put out, but yet hundreds of new reviews to approve and members here willing to give me the benefit of the doubt really touches my heart and inspires me to do whatever I can to make this site better. I know there's bigger boards with a lot more traffic. Heck I advertise on one of them. AR is just the baby, the new kid on the block, but at the speed we are moving, I see great things ahead.
Thank you