MALU's Dooyoo Challenge (Helpful Advice for New Members)

Member Name: delawney

Product:	Helpful Advice for New Members
Date:	15/11/03 (66 review reads)
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This Q&A challenge can help newbies find out what dooyoo is about and, if many established members participate, what the community is like and will hopefully convince them to stay and become active. To be sure, everything has been said before, but has it had any impact? Only for a limited time until the opinion disappeared from the front page. by presenting the tips on helping new members in the form of a questionnaire which can be done by several members the impact can perhaps be prolonged. Several members, better: Many members, to show that many roads lead to dooyoo.

Q: When did you join dooyoo?
A: January 2002 apparently. I had to go and look at my profile to find out!

Q: How did you discover dooyoo?
A: Completely by accident. It was from one of those websites that tell you how to make money on the internet. I was a bit skint at the time!

Q: Why did you join?
A: In all honesty I didn't really understand the site. I don't even remember the sign up process - it was all a bit of an accident! I posted a highly dodgy opinion (see below) and then suddenly people started reading it! Bit unfortunate for them that they did really!

Q: What was your very first opinion on ?
A: It was on the website that brought me to dooyoo in the first place. It was totally, totally pants, and subsequently got blocked! I did update it to make it a bit better, but I have to confess I'm still not proud of it. It would have helped if I actually understood the website I was reviewing at the time! D'oh.

Q: Did you find it easy to get the hang of dooyoo?
A: After I'd made the mistake so many new members do of churning a few rubbishy opinions (on the Speaker's Corner in my case) I finally discovered how to read the comments and had a bit of a shock! Showing an unprecedented amount of sense on my part I actually followed some of the advice offered, wrote my first "decent" opinion (fo

r which I got my first crown - yay!) and updated the crappy ones I'd written before.

Q: Did you read other opinions before you posted your first one?
A: Only a couple and as it turned out they weren't really very good examples. Plus, I didn't really have an understanding of the site, so that didn't help. If I had one criticism of dooyoo it would be that they really don't provide new members with enough info, so it's really easy to start churning out a load of rubbish and make a twat of yourself. I would recommend all new members read loads of opinions before they post their own - remembering to rate and comment, then more people might read their first opinion when it's posted!

Q: Do you write no/some/many comments?
A: I try to comment wherever I can. I love to read the comments to my opinions, so it seems only fair to leave them. Admittedly, if I've been away for a while and I'm trying to catch up on lots of reading I may be a bit less conscientious, and I don't leave a comment if I can't think of anything intelligent to say!

Q: When you click on the list of Newest Reviews, do you read your friends' opinions no matter what they're on/according to subject no matter who has written on it/preferably the opinions of new writers?
A: I do try and read all the reviews of writers I like (emphasis on try there, since I have been away for some time!) no matter what the subject, though I may draw the line at opinions on football, even if they're written by my favourite writer! I do enjoy reading new writers as well, and that was one of the fun parts about being a guide.

Q: Do you write your opinions in one sitting?
A: Usually, but not always. Depends on how complicated the subject matter is!

Q: Do you use a spell check?
A: I'm afraid I don't, as I write in notepad to avoid all the punctuation complications. I know I could write
in Wo
rd and then copy it to notepad, but that would be too easy wouldn't it! So I guess the odd typo slips through. I do update my opinions and correct them when I spot them though!

Q: Do you think you can improve your chances to get a crown if you suck up to a guide?
A: Definitely not. Having been one I've never experienced that, and it would probably make me less likely to want to nominate an opionion, although as a fair person I would still nominate if I felt it was worthy.

Q: Are you a member of a forum or a chat room?
A: I am a member of Chatterweb but I have to confess to being really pants at remembering to go in and check what's going on! I do use the wonderful tooyoo though ;)

Q: Does it get to you when members praise or condemn you?
A: I love to get praise. I'm only human after all! If people make constructive criticism (such as some I received on my first highly dodgy opinions) then that's cool. If people are just obnoxious then I'm afraid I don't give a toss!

Q: What did you do in your spare time before you joined dooyoo?
A: Spare time? What's that? Seriously though, I don't think my use of my spare time has changed that much - I just have to make time for dooyoo!

Q: What do you wish for the future?
A: Capital letters (I religiously put them all in to MALU's heading - no doubt they will all be gone by the time this is posted!), no more "?" for punctuation, more emphasis on continuing to develop the community and fun which the members seem to want but the site seems to be hindering.

Do write your own answers to Malu's questions. The heading paragraph on mine is hers.

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