My rant on people who rant! (Frustration with dooyoo)

Member Name: BabyGirl08x

Product:	Frustration with dooyoo
Date:	23/11/08 (204 review reads)
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Well, what can I say about Dooyoo? Its a great site, a fantastic site. I have 100% no problem with it. So, why am I posting in "frustration with Dooyoo", if I have there's no problem? Ill tell you why! Some of our beloved members of the "Dooyoo community" really **** me off! I must warn you, this review is full of strong opinions, I often enough respect other peoples, now I am asking the same.

I really don't know where to start with this one, so my complains are in no particular order, just whatever comes to mind.

* Ratings *
Personally, I am not at all bothered about ratings. Dooyoo is practice for me with things such as spelling, punctuation, vocabulary, for my "Highers". (Known in England as "A-levels"). All this "Dooyoo miles" rubbish really doesn't bother me in the slightest. I am not asking people to rate my reviews! Well, it does help me magnificently as the standard of my work can only be improved with other member's feedback. Actually, when I think about it, ratings are vital for me. Nevertheless, I do not make a huge fuss about it. So, as you can imagine, the thing that really grinds my bones is when other complains about it. This whole situation began when I first joined the site. I am a hard-studying girl, also my mother works full-time so I am left to take care of my house, the ironing, my fathers house (as he is permanently ill), his ironing, his cooking. So I don't exactly have all the free time in the world to "return ratings". I remembered I received a message from a young girl member, the message said "I recommend you start returning people's ratings, look how many people have rated you, and look how many you have returned". Ooh, the little B***** got what was coming to her! And the annoying thing is, I gave her double the ratings she gave me! Really but, why do people make such a big fuss over ratings, if someone doesn't return your rating, well, you learned a lesson therefor don't rate them again. And don't complain about it. And just incase you think I purposely don't return ratings, I do, I usually return double the ratings people give me so I can catch up.

* Part 2 - Rating so seriously *
Again talking about ratings, why do people rate so seriously?! Jesus, this is Dooyoo, not a classroom. I just HATE people who rate "Somewhat useful", for really gay reasons. For example, I wrote two reviews, one about Airline Pilots, and one about Air Cabin Crew. I would like to be any one of those two, so I decided to write, VERY lengthy reviews giving information, requirements, everything that anybody could need to start. The Airline Pilot review said in the description "this is only for people who have had experience", either way I wrote a review and got nothing but complements and a crown. However, the one about Air Cabin Crew did NOT specify it was only for people with experience, yet I got "useful". Now, that really didn't bother me, useful is a good rating, but then, several people gave "somewhat useful". Now that, was bang out. The review took me 4 hours to write as there was so much information needed and people were saying it was somewhat useful just because I hadn't done the job. I felt like saying to them, forgodsake and go get a life OUTSIDE Dooyoo. (Hence, I didn't actually say it).

Now, I've only ever wrote one film review, and I got "very useful" for it, but I hate people that give "not useful", for people who write long reviews and release the ending. Okay, fair enough people should warn you if they are going to release the ending, but even at that, people still give "not useful". If someone gives gives out information on a film, its useful. You should rate on the majority of a person's work, not because they wrote one little line your not happy with. I my opinion, people who do this are childish. How can a review be "not useful", if it contains some form of use?
* - Yes, its understandable people dislike hearing the end of books or films. Want a soulution to solve it?! Dont read book or film reviews! Go find the advert, or read the back of the book.

* revenge ratings*
God, shine your light upon me because I'm about to be controversial and I don't think many people are going to like it. I do NOT support "revenge rating". Okay, its childish and its against the rules, but really I think there are people who rate a review badly for unfair reasons.
So, if these people can rate badly for unfair reasons, do they not deserve to be treated in the same way? Okay, many would argue what an unfair reason is, but I think if someone rates badly for a certain reason (and specifies the reason), then the other person can return the exact same rating if it is for the same reason. I don't think its fair that someone can rate a review that's considerably below the average, then if the person re-rated someone's review with a rating that's again, considerably below average, its classed as "revenge rating". I think if your going to rate someone's review at a low rating, you should accept the fact that they may do the same, and not go cry about it to a member of Dooyoo staff. If you do not wish to be rated badly, don't rate other's badly, stay on the safe side and don't complain about it.

(PS. I never have/never will revenge rate, I have never rated a "not-useful" and rarely rate "somewhat useful", so I'm not just saying it because I do it, because I don't!)

* Short reviews/churning *
Right, once again, there's going to be a protest about this one, because its an opinion site, right? Some are here to make money, some are here to write. If someone is here just to make loads of money, what's all the bother about? Leave them to it. They're happy, your happy, I honestly don't see the war on it. I heard a few times, "they should raise the minimum word count", Hey, who's the boss here? If Dooyoo are willing to give out cash for 150 words, then that's their decision, end of, topic closed, no discussion. You can't tell Dooyoo how to run their business, that's like going into a pub and saying "well, I think your beer should be this price". You would be thrown head first out the door by two barmen. If you don't like the fact someone is making more money than you for less work, stop crying, come out of the corner, quit being a spoilt sport, and get on with doing what YOU want to do on this site, and don't worry so much about what other people want to do. Everybody does their own thing on this site and if you are angry at the fact that someone doesn't do enough work, don't read their reviews, don't rate them and shut up about it, really!

So, why doesn't everybody just lighten up, start being nice, and stop being like grumpy old teachers, just be nice with the ratings, there's no need to be so harsh. And with churning & revenge rating S*** happens! That's life.

Well, everyone's had their turn ranting, I just thought I had the right to mine. Bye :)

Summary: Stop crying and start enjoying Dooyoo!