Sometimes when I get votes on reviews, I feel like the people are voting on whether or not they would actually like the item you are reviewing instead of the actual review content itself.
When we get new contributors, do you feel it would be beneficial if they are told ahead of time, what they are actually voting for with regards to reviews?
A "Useful" vote is a good vote. And one or two less than useful votes isn't going to destroy your rank in the system. On a few of my reviews one person consistently rated them all as "useful". Sure, it looks funky with one vote just hanging out on useful and everyone else voting extremely useful, but there's really no difference between the two votes.
Feb 8, 9:48 am
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I hadn't thought much about it, but it could be helpful, just a little explaination of what they are looking for and such..
Originally posted by
wrmbreze
Sometimes when I get votes on reviews, I feel like the people are voting on whether or not they would actually like the item you are reviewing instead of the actual review content itself.
Feb 8, 10:40 am
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I lean more to her view. I also liked 'Nazaress' comment that some people are, well, clueless! There is a wide range of ages and of various educational backgrounds who visit EF. I do think that Eden Fantasys should set guidelines on what a review is suppose to provide.
Originally posted by
js250
I have had people comment that it was a great review, they loved.... and then rate me at useful or somewhat useful. Yeah, I think an explanation would be a great idea.
I try to make my reviews a message of 'informing and educating the reader'. When I first visited EF, I was looking for information on the toy and how it performed to their experiences. Each review is different, and so I took the totality of all the reviews into consideration.
Maybe there should only be 3 levels of votes: Excellent, Average, or Not useful! The EF computer program, which calculates the votes, should then tallies the votes on a weighted sliding-scale. In this way the rank is less impacted for us serious reviewers.
Feb 8, 1:17 pm
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I so agree with Kindred. An explanation might help a few people but people are gonna do what people are gonna do.
Originally posted by
Kindred
People can use whatever criteria they want to base their vote. And if a reader doesn't understand that it is based on the content of a review, I doubt an explanation is going to help.
I've finally gotten to the point after over 100 reviews where I've learned to stop focusing on what other people do about my reviews (especially when it comes to voting) and just focus on my part in writing the review.
Yes, it was hard to get to this point. I have three people who ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS vote "useful" on my reviews. Guess what? They're always going to do that...period. I may have 20 Extremely usefuls on a review and they'll still vote useful.
Mind you - useful isn't bad and I'm not saying it is.
My point is- people are going to do what they're going to do. In some cases, it is a case of a newbie not understanding. In some cases, it is what may appear to others to be a personal issue. Whatever.
Take that energy that you waste by getting pissed and just put it into writing your reviews and then walk away [emotionally] and don't worry about it.
Folks who read your reviews regularly know you're a good reviewer and you probably get enough EU and U votes that it really doesn't matter what the others think.
Trust me - I used to literally cry over a useful vote because it was the same 3 people most of the time. It got to the point where I almost hated to post a review or hated to check on comments later because I always dreaded their votes.
Now I don't care. I find I'm much happier that way and my family is much happier cause I'm not so hard to live with since I'm not frustrated.
Just my .02
Feb 8, 9:22 pm
I know that there are some contributors that will vote me down just because my review is posted offline, not here. I've gotten to the point that I don't care. I already thought the voting was self explanatory, but IDK, if you think that would help, then it might be nice to give it a shot.
Feb 8, 10:12 pm
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HNSTM, you are so right. I am working on it, I promise. It is a work in progress though.
Originally posted by
Hot 'N Sexy TexasMama
I so agree with Kindred. An explanation might help a few people but people are gonna do what people are gonna do.
I've finally gotten to the point after over 100 reviews where I've learned to stop focusing on what other people do about my ...
I've finally gotten to the point after over 100 reviews where I've learned to stop focusing on what other people do about my ...
I so agree with Kindred. An explanation might help a few people but people are gonna do what people are gonna do.
I've finally gotten to the point after over 100 reviews where I've learned to stop focusing on what other people do about my reviews (especially when it comes to voting) and just focus on my part in writing the review.
Yes, it was hard to get to this point. I have three people who ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS vote "useful" on my reviews. Guess what? They're always going to do that...period. I may have 20 Extremely usefuls on a review and they'll still vote useful.
Mind you - useful isn't bad and I'm not saying it is.
My point is- people are going to do what they're going to do. In some cases, it is a case of a newbie not understanding. In some cases, it is what may appear to others to be a personal issue. Whatever.
Take that energy that you waste by getting pissed and just put it into writing your reviews and then walk away [emotionally] and don't worry about it.
Folks who read your reviews regularly know you're a good reviewer and you probably get enough EU and U votes that it really doesn't matter what the others think.
Trust me - I used to literally cry over a useful vote because it was the same 3 people most of the time. It got to the point where I almost hated to post a review or hated to check on comments later because I always dreaded their votes.
Now I don't care. I find I'm much happier that way and my family is much happier cause I'm not so hard to live with since I'm not frustrated.
Just my .02
I've finally gotten to the point after over 100 reviews where I've learned to stop focusing on what other people do about my reviews (especially when it comes to voting) and just focus on my part in writing the review.
Yes, it was hard to get to this point. I have three people who ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS vote "useful" on my reviews. Guess what? They're always going to do that...period. I may have 20 Extremely usefuls on a review and they'll still vote useful.
Mind you - useful isn't bad and I'm not saying it is.
My point is- people are going to do what they're going to do. In some cases, it is a case of a newbie not understanding. In some cases, it is what may appear to others to be a personal issue. Whatever.
Take that energy that you waste by getting pissed and just put it into writing your reviews and then walk away [emotionally] and don't worry about it.
Folks who read your reviews regularly know you're a good reviewer and you probably get enough EU and U votes that it really doesn't matter what the others think.
Trust me - I used to literally cry over a useful vote because it was the same 3 people most of the time. It got to the point where I almost hated to post a review or hated to check on comments later because I always dreaded their votes.
Now I don't care. I find I'm much happier that way and my family is much happier cause I'm not so hard to live with since I'm not frustrated.
Just my .02
Feb 9, 6:46 am
I love the new ones that vote for 9 reviews for the smae product in 1 minute with the it's somewhat useful and your's happens to be one written that they're voting for. I checked it the other day when I had one where everyone voted EU but them and I followed them to see their activity and it was in a minutes time they voted everyone somewhat useful. OK people, we work HARD on our reviews and are trying to keep or increase our rank and that's not helping it any.
Feb 9, 11:25 am
Those saying that ratings don't matter are right, but come on... does it mean new contributors shouldn't be educated about how everything works here? I think wrmbreze really has a point! There were a few situations when people would vote "not useful at all" on my review and then apologize and say they had no idea they were supposed to evaluate the review, not a product. I think it might feel a bit embarrassing for them to appear as such clueless newbies. At least, I would feel confused and uncomfortable. So yes, sure, my answer is "yes".
Feb 17, 6:15 am
This is exactly the thread I was looking for. We have people who DO NOT KNOW HOW TO VOTE.
We have people who are obviously new to the site - out there voting on reviews, MY reviews, that I took hours to write and research and with a click of a button, for or five of them crashing my rating.
My rating does matter, at least to ME. I'M the one who took the time and made the effort to do the review, so naturally, I care about it. Ignorance on their part doesn't give them the right to fuck it up.
Some of these guys haven't even written a review, but they're out there rating them.
Something about "How to rate" needs to be added into the Mentor Program.
We have people who are obviously new to the site - out there voting on reviews, MY reviews, that I took hours to write and research and with a click of a button, for or five of them crashing my rating.
My rating does matter, at least to ME. I'M the one who took the time and made the effort to do the review, so naturally, I care about it. Ignorance on their part doesn't give them the right to fuck it up.
Some of these guys haven't even written a review, but they're out there rating them.
Something about "How to rate" needs to be added into the Mentor Program.
Mar 14, 9:35 pm
I'm going to add to this, look at who these people are when this happens to you.
I've found that more than often it's the ones who either never wrote a review, or wrote their two to get in, and on their wall, go down and every minute, rate a review 'useful' or lower - EVERY MINUTE. That means they aren't reading them. They rate for points.
How many new reviewers does EF need - especially when a percentage of them are behaving like this?
I've found that more than often it's the ones who either never wrote a review, or wrote their two to get in, and on their wall, go down and every minute, rate a review 'useful' or lower - EVERY MINUTE. That means they aren't reading them. They rate for points.
How many new reviewers does EF need - especially when a percentage of them are behaving like this?
Mar 14, 9:48 pm
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