Comments and reviews: writing about a film, an episode, a season
On Kitazo a comment is attached to something precise: a film, an episode, a season or a whole series. To write one you have to have watched it, and readers see it covered until they have reached the same point. This guide explains how to write one, what you can attach, what you can change afterwards and where it ends up.
Where you write
At the bottom of a title's page there is Community comments, with every comment left on that title and the Add a comment button. From an episode's page you comment on that episode; from the series page, on the series as a whole. A season is commented on when you rate it: the rating sheet has room for a note, and Submit rating and publish comment publishes it as a comment on the season.
Comments are ordered by Latest or Popular, and for a series you can filter them by season. Every comment says what it refers to: about S2 E5, about S2, or nothing if it is about the whole title.
You can only comment on what you watched
A film can be commented on after you mark it watched. An episode after you watched that episode. A whole series only after you finished it: until then the button reads Finish the title to leave a comment. A dropped film counts as watched. It is the half of the anti-spoiler system that concerns writers, and it makes sure that under a title there are only the voices of people who saw it. A verified email is needed too.
What you can attach
The text runs up to a thousand characters. Next to the field are the photo button, for an image from your gallery, and the GIF button, which searches GIPHY or, with Send a GIF of yours, uploads an animated file of your own up to five megabytes. A comment can also be just an image.
Every comment goes through a language filter that blocks racial and homophobic slurs, even written with numbers or spaces in between. A blocked comment is not published and the app tells you.
The rating stamped on it
When you comment on a film or an episode, Kitazo saves with the text the rating you had at that moment and, for films, how many times you had watched it. The comment then shows a small tag with the stars and, where relevant, rewatched ×N. A comment on the whole series carries written when it had N seasons instead. The stamp stays as it is: changing your rating later doesn't update it, so the page reads as a chronology of what you thought when.
Correcting and translating
A comment can be edited for six hours after publishing, with Edit in its menu; the time left is written next to it, and after an edit the edited label appears. Past the six hours only Delete remains, which removes the comment with all its replies. The rating stamp doesn't change with an edit.
A comment written in another language has Translate: the translation appears in place of the text, with the source language, and Show original removes it. The translation is automatic.
Replying
Under every comment there is Reply. Replies sit inside the comment's thread, oldest first, and whoever wrote the comment gets a notification. In the feed, when replying to a post, you can tick Also publish as a post to make the reply appear as an activity of yours as well. Replies follow the same rules as comments: a verified email, and having watched what is being discussed.
Who sees it
On the title's page a comment is always public: anyone who opens that title reads it, and the same goes for the title's public page on the site, where reviews written on Kitazo are listed with rating, season or episode and rewatch count. The Comments in the feed setting, under Privacy, only decides who sees the comment as a post in the feed: Public, Followers, Friends or Private. Comments imported from other platforms become public on the title's page too.
For readers, a comment about something they haven't watched yet is covered by a strip, and Reveal all spoilers opens them all. The exact mechanics, with reports, strikes and bans, are in the anti-spoiler guide.
Reporting
The menu of a comment that isn't yours has Report, with two reasons: Spoiler, for revealing the plot without warning, and Offensive. A moderator decides; you get a notification when it arrives and one with the outcome.
The favourite character
On an episode's page, and in a film's rating box, there is Who was your favourite? with the cast's faces: one tap records your vote for that character, and the page shows how many votes each received. It is not a comment and has no text, but it is an activity: the Share favourite characters setting decides who sees it in the feed, and there is no Public option.
Your comments in the backup
Your data export holds every comment with its text, stamped rating, visibility and the point of the title it was attached to. Put it back into an account and the comments return to the right page.