David Landgren writes: > I've just noticed a scathing review on one of my modules. Ok, it's > Tie::Cycle::Sinewave and a bit of a joke, but nonetheless, it does > seem to work just fine for me. > > But "chitresh" thinks that it's "Highly buggy and not reliable. Many > false positives. I think the author should calculate the senstivity & > specificity of the modules first."
I saw that review. > I haven't the faintest idea what the chap is talking about, That's exactly what I thought. So I gained a poor impression of the reviewer, rather than of the module. For what it's worth if I were looking to use a module and that was the only review on it, it wouldn't put me off. Especially when (as in this case) it's the only review by that reviewer. > I'm at a loss as to figure out what I could do to improve it. Don't worry about it then! > (So I marked the review as unhelpful, heh). So did I. > How can I get in touch with the person to find out what they didn't > like about it. You probably can't. And I think that's a feature: people should be able to leave reviews without fear of being attacked for them (or of being spammed, come to think of it.) You could however 'review' your own module, responding to that review: clearly state that you are the author, and only use the comment box; don't put in a rating. You could mention in there that you'd be happy to respond to any bug reports which are sent to you. But otherwise just accept that everybody gets some bad reviews from time-to-time -- as actors, for example, have had to deal with for centuries! Smylers
