Following @cchennnn tradition of creating a Review Sheet for the IFComp, here is one for the SpringThing:
Anyone clicking the link can edit the file. Just add your/the reviewer name on the first line, and the link to the review in the relevant box.
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Thanks for setting this up! It’s always fun to either be able to contribute, or to wake up and see a few more squares filled in.
Mods, can we pin this for the duration of Spring Thing?
Also, is this a good place to write up reviews potentially found in the wild, or should that be another topic?
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Might be best to have all reviews in on place, like with the IFComp.
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Almost 60 reviews already 
That’s a bit more than 2 reviews/games on average.
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Heeeeeeyyyy every game has had at least one review
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69 now. Also, nice to see everything reviewed. (ETA: I got ninja’d typing the next bit, ha ha.)
Looking ahead, I wonder what a good goal for minimum reviews for any one game would be?
2 seems inevitable, and 3 seems very likely.
4 seems realistic. Maybe 5, especially with fewer entries this year than last!
It’d seem potentially like a sort of community effort, especially with a week left, to get there–maybe we could even have people saying, okay, I’ll make sure to take on this game which is at the bare minimum?
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Nice
Did you mean a month left maybe ? 
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Haha, I keep forgetting, Spring Thing lasts more than a month, so yeah, there’s a month left. It feels like forever since I submitted WoR.
But I was more thinking, I think a lot of reviewers are sort-of hunting for entries without a lot of reviews, to boost them a bit. And we don’t want to concentrate on that too much. We want to see what we like and what’s there.
But then, with a week left, there’ll be certain trends, and it’d be neat for a reviewer to say: okay, I’m very strongly looking at (game X with the minimum reviews,) and I think I can/should tackle it.
Nothing critical or binding, but it’d be nice to have some way to communicate “hey, this entry’s extremely likely to get one more review,” whether through a topic here or with comments on the spreadsheet itself. I don’t know if I have any good detailed ideas/ways to organize this, though.
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I’ve seen a few people post about quantity of reviews possibly declining.
I decided to check this spreadsheet and last years.
This year, we have 85 reviews so far, with a median of 3 per game.
On April 18th of last year, we had 103 public reviews, for a median of 2 per game, 18 of which were from me (I plan on reviewing all games after Spring Thing ends).
Also, last year had 81% more games!
I think where people are feeling it the most is in the long games. A lot of people review the short and easy games sooner. Given that we still have almost a month left for reviews, I think everyone will get got to in time.
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I hereby commit to you all to be part of the solution here!
This, I can’t help. Oh wait, that says QUANTITY not QUALITY above. Yeah, I can help after all. :]
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You are already doing both 
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In previous comps, I’ve mostly relied on other people’s generosity to add my comp-impressions to the spreadsheet. I thought I’d give it a go this time.
I’ve just added links to two more reviews to the spreadsheet. When I paste them in place, I get an ugly long link-address that runs over the other squares. Can someone teach me the high-level SheetFu moves to change this into the elegant single-word “Link” that I see for all the other reviewers?
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Just type “Link” in the box, then highlight it and click the little button that looks like a chain-link in the toolbar (it should be most of the way to the right) – that will pop up a dialogue box you can paste the URL into.
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Done. Thanks.
I feel all smart and tech-savvy now.
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For those who try to use the mouse as little as possible, there’s also hitting ctrl-k, pasting the link into the bottom text box, then shift-tab and typing Link.
Note you should also be able to type Link as text, then enter, then hit the up-arrow and ctrl-k and paste the link!
This method may be slightly faster for people who wish to link several reviews in a row, e.g. if we find a new reviewer somewhere out there.
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Small update: the minimum is officially 2, with 7 entries at that total, 4 in the main festival.
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I’m glad someone is keeping up with my reviews, because I should definitely not mess with group spreadsheets. I will absolutely eff it up.
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Not to worry. Google Spreadsheets has that undo function.
The only worry now is that such sweeping actions, like, could make you feel powerless or easy to ignore! Though I suspect you’re too well-adjusted for that.
Oh, dry statistical news: We crossed 100 a bit ago. Yay, us. And we’re down to 4 entries with 2 reviews, 2 in the main festival!
By the way, has anyone else here ever bookmarked review sheets? I have to admit I have a task scheduler that launches it once a day. This helps me stay in orbit even as I have other stuff to do.
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My husband says I’m misleading you guys if you think that. But really, I can make a spreadsheet blow up in spectacular ways that are not undoable. It’s an art. I’m well-adjusted enough to know that I should stay in my lane.
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