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Rating other's reviews: on dooyoo and beyond |
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05/12/07 (671 review reads) |
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Advantages: Make a bit of money, share your opinions.
Disadvantages: Not everyone has the time to write a perfect review.
When logging into dooyoo, naturally, products and services that interest me first tend to receive my attention, especially if its something I may be interested in purchasing in the future. Regular contributors, those on my bookmarked list and those who have been kind enough to take the time to read my reviews, I tend to read. For the small minority of established members that don't bother to read my reviews despite having read theirs, I tend not to read theirs.
When it comes to rating I take a very simple approach. First and foremost, a site such as dooyoo is a consumer review site for consumers to share their opinions. If someone has taken the time to write a review of a reasonable length and detail despite having flaws it would seem fair to rate them very helpful. Such rating acknowledges that the author has put time and effort into their review.
Despite what some members would like to believe dooyoo is not a site of professional reviewers so the standard shouldn't be set too high. After all people have lives with other things to do rather than spend their whole day writing a review. Reviews should be as short as possible while containing all the essential information and opinion. This leads to the next point.
Some established members tend to be unnecessarily harsh when it comes to rating. Although they will deny it, newly registered users tend to be on the receiving end of this. As an example, the first review I submitted on dooyoo, despite being crowned received some very poor ratings. Those who downrated didn't offer any comment or explanation to why they had downrated it.
Overall dooyoo is just a consumer review site, one shouldn't take the standard of reviews too seriously and it would be better not to become so obsessed with ratings. For any review with a reasonable amount of content, deserves very helpful and those that go beyond what one would expect a crown. However, whenever serious about buying something, the first place to get an in depth balanced review is a specialist website.
Summary: dooyoo is just a consumer review site
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- 04/01/08 I have been there with the Duke like pretty much everyone else has on dooyoo.Few like him so just hang in there as 95% of the site are behind you. |
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- 31/12/07 Intersting perspective although not one I'm likely to agree with. Rating generously due to the time and effort others have put in is something of a misnomer for me, as time and effort is not a real distinction of quality. For example, it's not exactly fair that two students who put in the same amount of effort in GCSE English are rewarded with a similar grade, if one's effort has included insight and individual thought in an essay they've written, whereas the others effort is too self-reliant and not gone beyond what they have merely been taught by their teacher. The same is similar here in my mind. |
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- 17/12/07 You say it's idiotic yet you're so worried and obsessed you keep on coming back to defend yourself. You've polluted this review with enough of your comments. |
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