Frustration with dooyoo

A lot of people who have been reading my reviews lately are probably fed up with my opinions especially when it comes to my criticism of the dooyoo rewards system, rating system, structure, etc... One of my frustrations with dooyoo comes down to the fact that it takes 50,000 miles to be able to cash out your miles for a cheque. You see two weeks ago I hadn't submitted a review in a year and promised myself that I would try and make better use of my time than write reviews on an opinion website. Although its fun to share your opinions with a bunch of strangers on the internet, dooyoo can be time consuming and draining. I have a real life with more important ...  Read the complete review

Most of the time, I really enjoy contributing to Dooyoo - both writing my own reviews and reading those written by other members. There are a number of things which frustrate me, though and Friday afternoon seems as good a time as any to get them off my chest. I promise to try and avoid ranting! 1. Churners ---------------- When Dooyoo switched to its new rewards system a while back, I expressed concern that rewarding posting at a higher value than reading would lead to quantity over quality. I was hoping to be proved wrong, but no sooner did you get 50p for posting reviews and only 1.5p for a review read, there was a flood of uninformative, ...  Read the complete review

Let's make 2010 the year of the Somewhat Useful. Please. I'm asking nicely. I realise I expressed these views in another discussion topic but, if there is one thing that bothers me about dooyoo more than any other thing, it is over generous rating. I can't tell you how many times in the last few days I have seen reviews that had been given Useful or Very Useful ratings but failed to contain even the most basic information about the product. I keep seeing reviews for gadgets, games and accessories for games consoles that most people in my family will never have heard of. These reviews then express a few vague opinions on the product with no ...  Read the complete review

I joined dooyoo in October 2008 purely as a way to make money. I had no intention of becoming involved in any community, I didn't care about the standard of my writing and I certainly didn't care about dooyoo. Fortunately, or unfortunately (I'm not sure which) that all changed and I actually began to care about dooyoo. I LIKE this website, I like reading good reviews, I enjoy writing reviews and I enjoy chatting with members of dooyoo through PM or on a forum that I'm a member of. The problem is when you start caring about something you get frustrated when you feel that things aren't being done right or that improvements can be made. I'm not writing this review because ...  Read the complete review

I am pretty new to this dooyoo thing but overly long reviews bore the hell out of me and make me loose the will to live. I know there are maybe many that would disagree with me, but if I wanted to read a long review I would have bought a book. I totally love the short reviews that have some humour in them and that are broken down into paragraphs. I must admit that as a newbie I have not quite mastered the breaking down of my thoughts into paragraphs as yet, but we live and learn. As a caseworker by profession I must admit that writing 150 words can be a struggle at times as we are taught to keep things as simple and short as possible. As newbie I do ...  Read the complete review