Review suggestions

Today I figured I would take a some time to read, comment, and vote on as many reviews as I could with the time I had (about an hour and half). I was noticing that some reviews had only 5 or 6 votes. Even more disparaging, I read a magnificent review that only had like 3 votes, the review wasn't only a day or two old either.

Here are two examples, and these reviews are from a top 15 reviewer!
"A little bit of trouble by Alan & Michele"

[ https://www.edenfantasys.com/sex-toy-reviews/male-sextoys/her-touch-will-leave-you-shaking | "Her Touch Will Leave You Shaking" by Alan & Michele

We take our time to write reviews and we seem to have a small group of people who goes out of their way to read and comment.

I understand that it is a busy time of the season, but some of the older reviews still only get a few votes.

I understand that some reviewers such as myself are in fact new, and people like me do not have a large following.

Maybe it is because the amount of reviews submitted daily. I was just going to ask if anyone had any suggestions, then we can discuss them.

Its tough, Could we make commenting and voting more valuable to members?

Will that just lead to people not reading the review but spamming generic comments and votes?

Can we make a Random review suggestion on every page? Or will that make for extra clutter?

You see I do not have very many suggestions, but I see a problem (for lack of a better word), but I am trying to think of ways for improvement.

Do you see this as a problem? Do you have any suggestions?

Thank you for your time,
Viktor less

I was thinking, you could make a section in the forum for advertisements of sort, where a reviewer could make a thread and let people know. This has its disadvantages, one being that their might be too many "advertisement" threads and might drowned out the others.

You would also have to deal with multiple "advertisement" threads from on individual, unless you make a rule where you must use a single thread you already made for your reviews, for example:
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You make a thread called:

"Viktor's Review Update"

First post:
Hey this is Viktor, check out my review:

Second Post:
I have a new Review up, please check it out.

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That is just one idea, with some flaws. I didn't want to advertise my reviews through this thread so I didn't add any to that example less

I'm not sure if that is necessary, considering the fact that the Community Corner is easily found. Edenfantasys might want to send out a newsletter though to all of the reviewers saying, "remember this, remember that," every so often, with updates on navigation of the site and things like that.

In the future, however, we are going to have some great updates, which should take care of this.

At the same time, if people do not want to vote/commented, they're not obligated. But I believe that most people in the community are definitely involved this way. I myself have certain days where I'll just sit down and read and vote/comment reviews, when I have some free time. less

They might not be obligated but there is a good portion that would like to raise that number (you know the one), and that is a good way.

I think it shows good manners. If you want someone to sit down and read your review and vote or comment on your review, well then you should also read and comment. Just my personal thoughts. I am not saying you have to go out of your way every single day and read,vote and comment on every single product. I am just saying if you happen to have spare time then maybe you can read, vote and comment. less

Ahh, I know what you mean! The ranking, yes. Voting and commenting is certainly something that is a great thing, and by my response I wasn't trying to say that it was bad (it's highly recommended, in fact, not just for the rank, but for the reviewers themselves).

I agree with the courtesy thing, but honestly, we cannot force it on people. What I was saying was unnecessary was the forums for every reviewer. There are too many reviewers for that, and it would be a mass of threads being posted on daily! I agree that it's good for spare time. It's a bit hard to keep up with, actually, with the forums, with the reviews, with writing your own reviews. But hey, it's a great community overall! I think that, as a whole, the Edenfantasys community has become excellent in terms of this.

Since you are fairly new (do not take me saying this negatively), I will say that it was a bit different a year ago, and for people here longer than me, it was different then too! Edenfantasys has grown a lot as a community, and has gotten much better about commenting, reviewing, and voting. less

Personally, I've been making it a habit to get in and sort through all of the reviews that were posted. I don't think I've missed more than ten since I turned Advanced a couple months ago (I don't comment on condom reviews because I have no idea what's useful on those or not. Plus, the boyfriend and I don't use condoms because we have other birth control, so it's just not useful for me to read.) It's definitely really time consuming to try and keep up with some of them.

I've also seen that it's usually the more popular of the reviewers that get the comments. I'd love to see some of the lower-end reviewers posting comments. However, not all people are really that dedicated to the sex toy blogosphere.

I think having it be part of the contributor rating does effect people doing it. It's one of the main reasons that I do it. However, I don't see an advertising forum being very useful. I think it will just be more of a black spot on the forum than anything else. I know I post my links to reviews on my blog, and I really do consider that my advertisement. I think what's sitting on the contributor page does help. less

I think you have to remember that many people are still in holiday season full of drama, socializing, hangovers, travel and plans of all sorts. It doesn't surprise me that some of the recent reviews may only have a few comments or votes. Unfortunately, if they're not read right away, many of them are lost in the abyss. There are many things which are more important than EF (even though this is a major part of my online life).

As to your suggestion for forum updates? Sorry that's just incredibly unrealistic. There are hundreds of reviews posted every week and that would just fill the forum with useless posts. PLUS, you can already keep track of your favourite reviewers by their profiles or set alerts to be notified of their new reviews.

However, I'd like to see an actual page (not just RSS) where more reviews are displayed and a link on the community homepage to the RSS. less

I think you have to remember that many people are still in holiday season full of drama, socializing, hangovers, travel and plans of all sorts. It doesn't surprise me that some of the recent reviews may only have a few comments or votes. Unfortunately, if they're not read right away, many of them are lost in the abyss. There are many things which are more important than EF (even though this is a major part of my online life).

As to your suggestion for forum updates? Sorry that's just incredibly unrealistic. There are hundreds of reviews posted every week and that would just fill the forum with useless posts. PLUS, you can already keep track of your favourite reviewers by their profiles or set alerts to be notified of their new reviews.

However, I'd like to see an actual page (not just RSS) where more reviews are displayed and a link on the community homepage to the RSS. less

You are correct about the holidays and I made reference about that in my original post, I understand completely, and it would be very crazy (for lack of a better word) of me to expect people to just drop the holidays to read and comment

My suggest are unrealistic yes, I am just trying to brainstorm, throw out idea (good or bad) and maybe someone will help it. Someone may modify the original idea and come up with something better less