MALU'S DOOYOO CHALLENGE (Tips / Guides on Helping to Recruit Members to dooyoo)

Member Name: Boonoiy

Product:	Tips / Guides on Helping to Recruit Members to dooyoo
Date:	15/01/04 (38 review reads)
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Advantages: Fun site, Earn cash (now ipoints have gone)

Disadvantages: Pop-ups

q: when did you join dooyoo?

September 2001! Wow that's quite a while.

q: how did you discover dooyoo?

From ipoints.co.uk, big partners of dooyoo at the time.

q: why did you join?

Mainly because of the incentive of the ipoints to begin with, write a couple of reviews, get 5p for every read by others and collect them up until you've got enough for 100 ipoints - was worth a CD at back then. Also it sounded like a fun site.

q: what was the opinion you wrote:

I can't remember it was that long ago, I know I wrote a dreadful one about the Simpsons and one about Whitby (Hometown) when I was very new and got scathing feedback on both. Well, the Whitby one got me a couple of VUs but the Simpsons one really was poor.

q: did you find it easy to get the hang of dooyoo?

I thought it would be a quick fix for ipoints top-ups, I didn't get that to churn out opinions was a bad thing and that it'd get me disliked by all and sundry. I learned in the end though and put in the work necessary to get a few reads and a bit of respect from my fellow dooyooers. All is now well but it took me a while to get the hang of it.

q: did you read other opinions before you posted your first one?

Nope - just went charging in like a bull at a gate, no respect for anyone else or anything on the site. 5 ops on the first day followed by 4 or something and still not very many reads, as I say - it took me a while to get into it here.

q: do you write no/some/many comments.

Quite a few - I'm only 8 short of hitting the 1000 mark so I'll probably hit that this afternoon. I tend to write comments if an opinion has really meant something to me - touching or sad ones in the speakers corner or passionate ones in films or books tend to incite a comment from me as I want to pass on my approval/agreement/disapproval/etc.

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?

Yep - try and do a bit of everything. The newbies' writings can often strike up a smile on my face (if only when I see how bad they are so I can wistfully think back on my early days) so I do check what's there. My COF generally get a read (now that I'm back on the site again that is) when I see them on the new ops list and I do try and read on the things I'm most interested in too.

q: Do you write your opinions in one sitting?

Usually - I've done a couple that took some time and some changing round before I was happy with them but generally I'll just sit down to it and bash one out.

q: Do you use a spell check?

Yep.

q: Do you think you can improve your chances of getting a crown if you suck up to a guide?

Have never thought of it. I have yet to use the guides and have not had any trouble with ops since my early days. I just get onto it and see how we go.

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

I'm on the tooyoo list but don't use it that much.

q: Does it hurt when members praise or condemn you?

I've never been hurt by praise and I tend to think of any negative feedback as constructive criticism. If I have genuinely made a boo-boo of an opinion then I usually know it when I put it up, in these cases I expect to get bad comments.

q: What did you do in your spare time before you joined dooyoo?

Played online games and worked harder - then got addicted, fought it off again and then came back.

q: What do you wish for in the future?

Obviously the capital letters thing is a pain and the pop-ups are a little annoying, they could knock that on the head for a bit. Other than that I find the site fine.

Here
endeth the story of Boon on dooyoo.
:-)

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