Rating Reviews

When rating a toy review, how honest are you? Do you take the time to read through the whole review or do you always rate the same?

I find most of the toy reviews very well written and give mostly everyone an excellent. I work hard on my reviews and try to give alot of information. less

I have noticed a lot of people who just say "Great review" when the review is obviously horrible. Most likely, these people are fishing for points.

I am always very honest. If it's someone who has written 30-something reviews, and there is only a little good info, I let them know and I rate accordingly.

If it's someone's first review, I honestly do try to give them a head start push and always rate "Useful" at LEAST. I will comment them and say "You could add..." or "I liked how you mentioned...". less

I have noticed a lot of people who just say "Great review" when the review is obviously horrible. Most likely, these people are fishing for points.

I am always very honest. If it's someone who has written 30-something reviews, and there is only a little good info, I let them know and I rate accordingly.

If it's someone's first review, I honestly do try to give them a head start push and always rate "Useful" at LEAST. I will comment them and say "You could add..." or "I liked how you mentioned...". less

I think that's kind of misleading.

If a review isn't useful? Then I'm going to say so. Letting someone think their bad review isn't bad isn't helping them: it's indicating to them that their shitty review was enough to compete with other (validly) useful reviews.


And I really wish people wouldn't do this. I see it happening a lot, where people vote 'extremely useful' on a review that wasn't even useful.

I'm getting off on a tangent, now, but things like this are why there's the tendency to rate higher than the review is really worth. less

I agree. While I don't feel it's necessary to bash a reviewer's attempt at offering their opinion on a product, it's not really constructive to tell them they're fantastic when they're not.

I think that offering advice, explaining the mentor program and how it works, or even a PRIVATE message telling them how they can improve on their skills is the better, more constructive way to go. Telling someone they're doing great when they're not is lying and no one really benefits from lying. less

If I don't feel that I can honestly rate a review as at least "somewhat useful", I generally just don't give it any rating. Maybe that skews that system, but I just don't feel comfortable being that negative about someone. Especially when you can see that they are a highly ranked member within the community. I'm frankly afraid to give them a negative rating for fear of retaliation.

Maybe if your ratings were anonymous, it would make it easier to give a negative rating. less

If I don't feel that I can honestly rate a review as at least "somewhat useful", I generally just don't give it any rating. Maybe that skews that system, but I just don't feel comfortable being that negative about someone. Especially when you can see that they are a highly ranked member within the community. I'm frankly afraid to give them a negative rating for fear of retaliation.

Maybe if your ratings were anonymous, it would make it easier to give a negative rating. less

If I don't feel that I can honestly rate a review as at least "somewhat useful", I generally just don't give it any rating. Maybe that skews that system, but I just don't feel comfortable being that negative about someone. Especially when you can see that they are a highly ranked member within the community. I'm frankly afraid to give them a negative rating for fear of retaliation.

Maybe if your ratings were anonymous, it would make it easier to give a negative rating. less

When rating a toy review, how honest are you? Do you take the time to read through the whole review or do you always rate the same?

I find most of the toy reviews very well written and give mostly everyone an excellent. I work hard on my reviews and try to give alot of information. less

There is one way in which I'm not completely honest: a review must be very frustrating or questionable for me to vote badly on it. I know how much people are penalized (how much their rating goes down) for bad votes, so I'm very shy about voting badly. I feel like, if I'm going to hurt people, the reason needs to be strongly justified!

If the penalty for the reviewer wasn't so harsh, I would feel more comfortable giving out harsh criticism on reviews that are overall good but have a few nitpicky problems. I suppose this is one disadvantage to the community EdenFantasys has formed here. People afraid to step on other people's toes.

I sometimes do skip over sections in a review, but I don't think that's dishonest. Isn't that basically what the long-form reviews are for? So that if you're already familiar with the properties of silicone you can skip over the materials section and don't have to read several paragraphs about how silicone tastes and smells and what lube you should use with it and how it attracts lint and how you shouldn't let it be stored in contact with other silicone toys?

I know a lot of people complain about "great review" and things like that, but coming up with a detailed, well-written summary of a review is a lot of work to do and rather pointless. Once you're writing a review of a review, isn't that kind of redundant? Yet people benefit from every comment left, so I don't think review replies are an issue unless people leave something very suspicious such as the exact same text on every review they reply to, or habitual smilies and nothing else. And I think those people already get warned by staff, don't they? less

There is one way in which I'm not completely honest: a review must be very frustrating or questionable for me to vote badly on it. I know how much people are penalized (how much their rating goes down) for bad votes, so I'm very shy about voting badly. I feel like, if I'm going to hurt people, the reason needs to be strongly justified!

If the penalty for the reviewer wasn't so harsh, I would feel more comfortable giving out harsh criticism on reviews that are overall good but have a few nitpicky problems. I suppose this is one disadvantage to the community EdenFantasys has formed here. People afraid to step on other people's toes.

I sometimes do skip over sections in a review, but I don't think that's dishonest. Isn't that basically what the long-form reviews are for? So that if you're already familiar with the properties of silicone you can skip over the materials section and don't have to read several paragraphs about how silicone tastes and smells and what lube you should use with it and how it attracts lint and how you shouldn't let it be stored in contact with other silicone toys?

I know a lot of people complain about "great review" and things like that, but coming up with a detailed, well-written summary of a review is a lot of work to do and rather pointless. Once you're writing a review of a review, isn't that kind of redundant? Yet people benefit from every comment left, so I don't think review replies are an issue unless people leave something very suspicious such as the exact same text on every review they reply to, or habitual smilies and nothing else. And I think those people already get warned by staff, don't they? less

I think that's kind of misleading.

If a review isn't useful? Then I'm going to say so. Letting someone think their bad review isn't bad isn't helping them: it's indicating to them that their shitty review was enough to compete with other (validly) useful reviews.


And I really wish people wouldn't do this. I see it happening a lot, where people vote 'extremely useful' on a review that wasn't even useful.

I'm getting off on a tangent, now, but things like this are why there's the tendency to rate higher than the review is really worth. less