If you have been on dooyoo for long, you will doubtless have heard talk about a conspiracy, cartel or monopoly on crowns. Is the crown system fair? Does everyone stand an equal shot? And most importantly, do guides really get more crowns? Well, first I think I should mention what crowns are, for any new members. Crowns add a nice bit of bling to your review. I use dooyoo for everything I buy. If I have failed to sign in, I've noticed crowned reviews show up at the top of the list for me, followed by those ranked most useful. I assume this is dooyoo's way of getting the most useful reviews read first, which will keep non members coming back to the site. ...  Read the complete review

I will start by saying openly that yes, for the first time, I am more than a little annoyed that I haven't recieved a crown this week. Yes I fell into the worst of holes, I wrote 3 reviews, all of which I am incredibly proud of and started to believe that at least one of them would have granted me a little gold hat. It's my own fault that I'm bothered by it, I admit that, but in my defence, I've never yet had a crown, and it's never before even crossed my mind, and I never set out to write crown worthy reviews, I just wrote them as I felt they needed to be done. And frankly, for all I know, none of them got nominated anyway, so it is pretty much ...  Read the complete review

Dooyoo crowns are 1500mile awards for what the Dooyoo team claim are premium reviews of particularly high quality. You only need to check the "New Reviews" section of the site to see just how many are churned out by so many users per day. As a result, Dooyoo crowns to me, appear to be something of a random draw. So often now have I noticed reviews of superb quality passed over for crowns in favour much worse ones. In my opinion, I have far, far better reviews than the ones I have received crowns for, and am always genuinely surprised at the choice when I receive a new one. Its best not to chase or expect crowns, because you'll only be ...  Read the complete review

There's no denying that a crowned review is usually very useful and written to a high standard. When I first started submitting reviews on dooyoo I tried my best to get a crown. There's nothing better than having a nice shiny crown next to a review. Unfortunately to obtain a crown requires a lot of effort yet little is given as a reward. Not only does one have to know the product inside out, one has to do a bit of research and check every bit of punctuation and grammer. For every crown I obtained it took about four hours, the equivalent time to write up and University assignment, yet with the reward of a measly £1.50. I'm generally surprised how generous some ...  Read the complete review

The crown system is a great idea, but in my opinion its one that seems pretty badly executed. Having discussed it with a number of friends who all use the site, we agreed that the awarding of crowns seems to be largely random, rather than based on nominations, creative ability or depth of review- it seems as if anything of a reasonable word length that looks reasonably accurate and well written will be considered, with awards appearing to be chosen largely at random. Granted, I am far from one of the best reviewers on this site, and there are plenty who are far more deserving of crowns than me, but whilst a couple of my reviews have been crowned these are ...  Read the complete review