My First Ever Challenge! (Tips / Guides on Helping to Recruit Members to dooyoo)

Member Name: zebra

Product:	Tips / Guides on Helping to Recruit Members to dooyoo
Date:	22/11/03 (29 review reads)
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Advantages: It used to be the best UK opinion site

Disadvantages: Horible technical problems

Q: When did you join Dooyoo?

A: 8th June 2000 I was one of the first I think!

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Q: How did you discover Dooyoo?

A: I was going through my competitions on the internet phase and, as part of their
opening promotion, Dooyoo had a huge prize draw which was advertised on a
competition site. I think the top prize was a BMW Scooter which I really would have
loved to win. Anyway Dooyoo also paid loads of money for opinions and for reading
other opinions and it was too good an opportunity to miss.

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Q:Why did you join?

A: To enter the prize draw. However, I thought the idea of Dooyoo was fantastic. I
really thought it would be an excellent consumer resource and stayed. I actually enjoy
telling people about things I have enjoyed or would recommend and warning them if
it was awful. But while I thought it was a brilliant idea I don't think it works as well
as a resource as I originally thought because there are too many outdated and poor
quality opinions still dominating many categories as 'very useful'.

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Q: What was your first opinion?

A: My first opinion hardly counts as one of those moments I will remember forever. I
had to go and look! My first review was about gulet cruises, which are still my
favourite type of holiday. It was a very short opinion by today's standards but
probably one of the longer opinions around at the time.

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Q: Did you find it easy to get the hang of Dooyoo?

A: Not really! Every one was new to Dooyoo at that time including the many category
managers they employed. It seemed like no one really knew exactly what was
expected. Someone started a news
group to discuss Dooyoo and we used to try and
work out what we were supposed to be doing amongst ourselves. There were quite a
few clicking cartels and other abuse going on in the early days. If you dared rate
some people's opinions less than 'very useful' the chances are they would revenge
rate you back or worse. Although I enjoyed Dooyoo I had problems and even got
hounded off for a while. With Dooyoo's permission, I wrote under a different name
for a while to avoid the abuse. It was quite amusing in a way because the main culprit
of the nastiness was so charming to my alter ego.

Perhaps I took it all too seriously. In retrospect I wished I had been a serial churner
and made some money while it was available.

I'm still finding it difficult to get the hang of Dooyoo now. I'm never sure if I have to
edit for stray ?????? or not, sometimes they appear other times they don't. I can't
seem to log in easily and I regularly get XML error messages. I think it must be very
difficult for someone new to have to cope with all this on top of learning how the site
works in general.

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Q: Did you read other opinions before you posted your first one?

A: I can't remember but we got paid to read opinions in those days as well as write.

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Q: Do you write no/some/many comments?

A: I write some comments. If I feel moved to comment I will but don't do so as a
matter of course or to promote my name. I still tend to consider Dooyoo as a resource
rather than a member's club and wonder what a genuine consumer trying to find out
about a product would think of some of the comments. This is just my rather daft
view of what I thought Dooyoo ought to be and doesn't reflect what it is.
T
he fact of the matter is that Dooyoo is primarily a member's club and I have no real
objection to people who like to write lots of comments.

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Q: Do you write your opinions in one sitting?

A: Sometimes, but more often than not I start writing an opinion, get interrupted and
don't finish it. I have loads of half finished opinions. The problem is that if I don't
write while I feel strongly about something then the urge to write goes away.

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Q: How often do you post a new opinion?

A: It depends how busy I am elsewhere. I have been deliberately avoiding posting on
Dooyoo because of the technical problems. I put some effort into writing and object to
seeing an opinion look a mess. However, I'm also cheap so I am easily tempted by
double miles and other incentives hence my presence.

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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 tend to read the people who I know write well in the newest reviews. I don't read
everything anyone writes but just what I might be interested in. I sometimes wish the
there was a bit more information about the product though. Sometimes I click on an
interesting looking title only to discover a review of an obscure computer part or
something else that I am not at all interested in.

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Q: Do you think you can improve your chances to get a crown if you suck up to a
guide?
A: How do you suck up to guide? Perhaps that should be a new category or challenge!

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Q: Are you a member of a forum or a chat room?

A: I have been a member of forums in the past and really enjoyed Opcom in its
heyday. I can't get on with chat rooms at all ? they go too fast for me. I have a
Tooyoo Guestbook and read Chatterweb sometimes but haven't joined yet because
I'm too busy to get involved with much else at the moment. I think they are both
useful and fun though and great if you do have the time.

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Q: Does it get to you when members praise or condemn you?

A: I'm human and I enjoy compliments. I don't mind if people disagree with me after
all this is an opinion site but I was very upset by some comments made about me in
the early days of Dooyoo. I don't that sort of thing happens any more though!

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Q: What did you do in your spare time before you joined Dooyoo?

A: Most of my spare time is and has always been taken up by real life but before I
discovered Dooyoo my virtual interest was comping. I won some fabulous prizes
including two holidays and netted prizes to the value of £3000 in a year. The trouble
was most of the prizes were things I didn't really want. It was just another phase but I
enjoyed it and the friends I made online while I did it.

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Q: What do you wish for the future?

My wish for Dooyoo is the same as everyone else ? that they sort out their technical
problems before their reputation is completely ruined.

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