BLACK LIST READERS: ARE THEY WORTH IT?

BLACK LIST READERS: ARE THEY WORTH IT?

In a previous post, I explained my irritation with the Black List readers' rating system. Now my paranoia and potential ego lead "butt-hurt" has been justified, as an interesting paraphrased post about writer Jeff Lowell's experience with  the rating system in this post, hosted and paraphrased by Slug the Lines.

In it, he orders two evaluations, receiving a 9 and a 6 on an early pilot he wrote. The post argues against Lowell's quote that "the Blacklist would be a no-brainer to try" as a novice, imploring that the system is flawed due to fact that it encourages re-writes, regardless of scoring, and that it's only actually the alosive 8-10 scoring that brings you to producers attention, especially if you get 9+, where BL will use your log line as a sent newsletter to producers.

The post even mirrored my own frustration, quoting that the re-write script getting a <5 is not an uncommon sight.

I don't wish for this post to be simply a rant justifying my previous post, but considering the Slug the Lines post was posted in the last few days, it may be possible that we are seeing something of a mini-scandal; one where the reputation of a script hosting site could be in jepordy due to the lack of a consenses among the readers for BL.