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Rating other's reviews: on dooyoo and beyond |
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04/03/07 (80 review reads) |
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Advantages: ratings pay
Disadvantages: takes time
I'll be honest. Getting ratings for my reviews always makes me happy. Hard part is when I have to rate other peoples reviews because it is time consuming. When I have free time I browse the reviews page and read the ones that interest me. On a good day I have read upto 25 reviews. This takes at least 1/2 hour if not more. Some days I don't access the site. Today I probably read about 15 reviews that were posted in last two days. I will read more once this review is posted.
My advice to anyone reading reviews on this site or others is that be fair in ratings. Think of the way review is written and how others have rated it. If majority of ratings are VH than your rating of SH will look out of place.
Any review has to be well written to earn the top marks. I have seen some reviews where the member has improved on the past work yet the rating is the same. I think this is wrong. First impressions linger on at this site as well.
I feel sorry for some people. Their reviews are at least 1500 words long and well written yet they fail to attract more than 20 reads and some of them useful.
I can't say for others but I always rate a review on its merit. Well written one always gets VH from me. Those under 250 words get useful as long as the subject is well covered and self opinion is added. Less than 150 words gets SU rating and of course the bad ones are NU.
I don't rate people because they rate my reviews. I don't read reviews because they don't read mine. I always look at what interests me or something that is new information to me. When I have time I try to read as mansy as I can.
Thank you for reading my views on ratings and reads.
Summary: be fair
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- 23/11/09 Sorry for the poor rating but this review was not helpful to me. I don't agree with you about how long a review is correllates to how high their rating should be - a long review could still be full of garbage whereas a review of 250 words could contain everything I need to know!
I agree with the other commenters also ... if you believe a review is deserving of a Somewhat Useful, you should not adapt your rate to match those of others', even if everyone else has rated 'Very Useful'. Maybe everyone else hasn't bothered to read the review properly and has just marked an above average grade to get a 'VU' in return. |
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- 10/03/07 Totally agree with Wendybull bloew - you should always rate as to how useful YOU found the review, not rate in accordance with how useful other people have found the review. If your rating stands out - what does it matter? You get paid exactly the same on dooyoo regardless of the rate - and if means your rating honestly than thats exactly how you should rate. |
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- 04/03/07 Whoops sorry forgot to add that those writers who get very few reads are probably those who dont read many themselves. I, and others, will often look to see how many reads the writer has done and if the number is a lot lower than the number of times they have been read then I will not read it, unless it is something in an interesting category like this one :o) |
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