The dooyoo guide system

Whilst not a prolific reviewer myself, after joining dooyoo just over three years ago I soon found myself addicted and rather fond of this old website and its community. Two years later, after resigning from my job, I decided that helping out on my favourite website might be one way of putting my extra free time to good use. So I volunteered to be a guide. Rewards~~~ I will get this over and done with as it would be remiss to write a review on guiding without covering off that old guide and crown chestnut, a famous conspiracy theory started by one of our more devilish members way back when. I do not tend to scrutinise the crown statistics as ...  Read the complete review

Never mind MP expenses claims, rigged elections in Iran and a pandemic of swine flu. The topic 'du jour' around these parts for some time now has been the Dooyoo Guides. Bullies, egotists, victimisers extraordinaires and so on and so forth, the allegations come thick and fast on what seems like a daily basis. Sour grapes or honest experiences? You decide. For some, there's a suggestion that the site doesn't really need guides at all, and, certainly, for new members at least, there seems to be a misunderstanding about the guide role in general. Guides are appointed (either via invitation or application) to support the permanent team of Dooyoo staff in some of ...  Read the complete review

For each Dooyoo category there is a guide. Guides are non paid member of Dooyoo who are resposnible for positing comments and advice on the reviews posted in each of the available categoriee. The idea is to provide feedback (and off course, it should be constructive feedback) to the fellow colleagues on Dooyoo. I have noticed that MOST of the guides are competetent, although I found some discrepancies between them and on a couple of occasions I wondered if they have the relevant background and experience to be a guide for that specific category. In my humble opinion, a guide should fullfill some pre requisites. These ...  Read the complete review

If there is one kind of review that's likely to pull in the reads it's a navel-gazing opinion on dooyoo or its members. Seeing as I've now been a member of dooyoo for exactly 7 years (as of the date of this opinion) I thought it about time for some navel gazing but I want to do it properly. We could all write 150 or even 500 words on dooyoo and its members and earn our 50p (or not, in this case as I've purposely chosen a Speakers Corner topic). In fact, these topics are probably about the easiest to churn in (and, because of the memberships love of navel gazing, will earn read miles too) but, quite frankly, I'm getting rather tired of reading the same negative moans ...  Read the complete review

I have stumbled across this topic by chance, but what interesting reading all the reviews and comments has made! So I have decided to add my own two-pennorth to the reviews about Dooyoo guides. ARE GUIDES NECESSARY? I am a fairly new member to Dooyoo and have already asked myself this question several times. I really cannot see that the guides serve any useful purpose – but I am willing to be corrected if anyone can prove me wrong. The guidelines on Dooyoo for reviewing are pretty straightforward, surely the guides are not required to help us write our reviews. If we are capable of writing a review, then we are equally capable ...  Read the complete review