It is the second review I'v wrote which vanished right after submitting it without any error feedback. WTF?!

There sometimes is a varying delay with the reviews, try checking later on if it appeared.

I thought so. Its now a day ago, that is why I write. It vanished, I thought it will appear. It did not.
It is also confusing if there is still the option to write a review if you already did. I ignored it, thinking it will be fixed or improved, but its that way since I can think back. Looks like gog is ignoring such things too.

you should have the ability to review. especially if you own the game.

contact support. see what's going on.

PM a blue and see what happened. I've left savage reviews that they left up, well past the point where they were relevant. If the review has vanished, then that's most likely a bug.

Or, you're looking in the wrong place, If you review a deluxe version, the review won't show up on the regular version's review list.

It was the game starbound. I'v backed it before its EA was released and before it was on steam. Later on, they gave steam keys, so I don't have it on GOG.

I've had this happen with every single review I've ever written. They disappear into a black void. I talked with GOG support about it and they seemed surprised. I did get back information from someone at GOG though that they do not moderate incoming reviews etc. and that my review should show up. A week or so later I went through all the pages of reviews for the games again and found my review buried in there even though it did not originally show up.

My guess is that their review system code is just shaky around the edges and if a review doesn't show up right away it isn't on purpose, but they seem to show up after a while. They claimed to not censor posts which one might question at first, but if you go reading all the reviews for some games they actually contain a hell of a lot of nonsense bitching and whining and crap that isn't remotely an actual game review including some really nasty stuff, so I'm inclined to believe them that they don't purposefully censor reviews because there are a lot of reviews that SHOULD be censored. :)

@skeletonbow

interessting to read a very similar approach I did about it. The first review that vanished appeared few hours later. That moment I thought something like: "do they censor the reviews? wtf?". Then I remembered the lots of reviews I'v read, both positive and negative including heavy ranting, etc and my answer was: don't seems like they do, but who knows?

On this review, I was calm after it yet again disappeared. But this time it did not appear after a few hours, so its the first time now where I got really angry, since I was calm quite long enough.

But week(s) delayed? This is a no-go! Especially since its a bug which exists now by my experience at least 1,5 years, who knows how long actually?

Compared to the assumption about censorship, here we have no logical disprove (or fact, which makes it less likely to be true), that this is not an intent to delay critical reviews on new published (not necessary new released) games for example. IN addition, GOG adds up to this assumption by ignoring it for years.

When something is put on sale and/or published, customers buy decision depends on reviews. Delaying for a week or even days is CRITICAL disturbance and does not make GOG shine in the light they want to put themselves.

Review are "community censored". Enough people marking them as spam make them disappear. I don't say this happened to ysor123, but I've noticed some reviews disappearing rather quickly in the first days after a release (and all of them justified, like only bitching about the price without ever mentioning anything about the game itself).

I think the key here is "Never attribute to malice what can be explained by suckageness." :)

It is still not visible...

I wouldn't bother wasting your time to keep checking. The review system is pretty shoddy, easily gamed by people, contains tonnes of crap that aren't even reviews. People who get upset at a game because it doesn't support their native language of Swahili or whatever will go give a perfectly good game a review of 1 star to lower its score, as will people who have difficulty downloading it or something due to their own bad ISP or whatever. People even give positive reviews to games they've never played so that they sell faster when GOG does Insomnia sales where each game has a fixed number of copies to sell before the next game comes up for sale and they don't want to wait for it.

So the reviews and ratings are pretty unreliable, the software that runs it is shaky and loses reviews either completely or they vanish for days/weeks then suddenly are there, it only shows you a few at a time making it take forever to read a bunch at a time, forces you to have to click "more" on most of them further making it inconvenient.

Just not worth spending time on really IMHO. I just use Steam reviews for games, or metacritic and other sites. Nothing is foolproof but combining a few sources gives decent results that work for me well enough. As for leaving reviews, I occasionally do, but usually have the same experience you did and just forget it and move on as I don't feel like wasting even more of my time with GOG support due to bad website software problems. :)

Still not there, Now I'm fucking pissed off