| Icomment | - I liked your images and captions a lot overall, so you earn an 8.
*General thing: Your images are so big! A few of them actually obstruct section headers. You could make them a bit smaller, and I think you should.
*First image: Being brutally honest here, the caption is fine, but the picture isn't potatochopped too well. There's a lot of black space behind the chimp's head, and it looks really off. I love the picture itself, but I feel it would be better without all of those 'chopping problems.
*Second image: My only problem here is the fact that it looks like the spider is floating. Spiders can't fly! :P It needs to look like it's on a surface.
*Third image: This would be fine, except I have no idea what it is. I would like that better if it looked like something real- it would be funny on both the object an on the spider.
*Fourth image: I would love it, but huge spiders in dreams aren't mentioned. Anywhere. I feel like you could include something about some humans being afraid of huge spiders uprising, satirize it, etc. under that section. Then, the picture would be relevant.
*Fifth image: That's a keeper, but see my comment about it being too big.
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| Hcomment | - The score is my overall indication of how good I feel the humor is in this article right now. Overall, this is good, but it does need improvement in certain areas. Section-by-section:
*Lede: The quotes wouldn't actually hurt, except they're kind of irrelevant to the main topic of the article. There isn't much expansion about the stuff mentioned in either of the quotes. About the actual content, meh. It doesn't seem to establish any central concept , as it normally should, and I dislike the stuff about what organisms it is related to. This is mainly because there doesn't seem to be a clear point why it is there. I may be missing something. If I am, you should make it more obvious what it's really meant for. Same for the thing about them being rodents.
*Natural Habitat: This is generally a really good section. I really should discourage the thing about British people, but it was too funny. I would like a bit of expansion here; why are they miserable? Why are they small, etc.? There is potential to make this section better by adding something about that.
*Reproduction:Good, except for one thing: It says that the "motives are unclear" but you give a funny explanation for it above, so it's inconsistent. Also, another thing: This is less of something you need and more of something I would like- why does the female spider tend to lean towards lesbianism?
*Spider webs: Sigh, I have expressed my feelings about list form many times before. I think the whole list thing can be eliminated if you just put those into paragraphs and say something like "For example, " in the beginning. OK, so my list rant is over. The thing with orb webs seems to be more about spider webs in general, and less about a specific web. I'm honestly not sure to suggest here, so let's move on. The funnel webs thing seems to have very little humor here- frankly, I was a bit disappointed. The Google maps thing was nice, but slightly predictable. When hinting at a joke, you shouldn't wait for so many words/sentences- the effect is hurt. I expected the joke about the webs being big. The next item is the same as the second one- very little humor, more of a description. =/ I liked the thing about agonizing death, but I felt like it was the only thing in there to laugh at.
*Human and Spider coexistence: Hm, the beginning seems a bit inconsistent with the "vicious" theme, but that's minor. Anyway, I was a bit confused by this part- probably because of the phrasing. Retards such as me have trouble understanding subtlety that is too subtle. I think you were trying to say that humans killed the spiders- but you said they were killed "for experiments" before, and not just for pleasure, so I become lost. I would like you to HELPME understand this better- clarify their intentions, and make sure not to contradict yourself.
*The Spider Uprising: What does that prophecy have to do with race? Minor thing, just a thought. I really have no other helpful suggestions here, so let's move on, shall we?
*Bite Symptoms: I thought humans and spiders were fighting. Why would we cuddle them? Removing that would help the tone- there are still-funny replacements, though. You just have to think of them, heh. And that's more listy stuff down there. I frankly don't see the point of the "God spider" thing. The other two have a basis of of something, which makes them a little better in my eyes. I think you should remove that and convert this into a paragraph, somehow. Also, I felt you could have thought of more symptoms, especially for the black widow. It would have been a good funny opportunity. I like the stuff about eating the spider's head, but I wish you had explained it a little better. You could have said something like "this balances out the toxins by equalizing the amount of toxicity in your mouth and your stomach." That remains far-fetched, but it has twisted logic, something I enjoy. One last thing- what will the spiders do if they don't think you're injured/full of food? I wish you would have given a reason for this, too. That way, you deliver upon all of what the reader expects, and then some.
*The religion of spiders: I would give serious consideration to cutting this. It's extremely short, it's kind of hard to understand, and it makes a connection to Hinduism where one really doesn't make sense. The article could do without it.
*I can't really give advice on a video. Good introduction before it.
*One last thing: In the "see also" thing, why did you make the last links all weird? Couldn't they have just been normal? I don't understand what it means.
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| Fcomment | - This is a pretty good article that would get an abstain out of me on VFH, as it already has. It is funny, intelligent, and subtle; while still being in-your-face enough. However, i has problems that bring the quality down. The biggest ones are:
*The lists of doom
*The whacked-out formatting
*Tone, clarity, and prose problems
You know where to talk to me.
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