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Scaredy_Cat_3

Thanks Emmysmum - I have sent an email via the 'contact the Dooyoo team' section. I haven't deleted the message yet in case they want to see it - but I was a bit annoyed by it! I get enough of this rubbish to my normal email. Didn't everyone else get this, or was I specially chosen because I look so honest?

I'm feeling a bit disillusioned with Dooyoo anyway. I started quite keen and wrote one a day (two on a good day) for the first few days, then it was one every couple of days, now it's about one a week. My last 2 reviews, I put loads of effort in, and had quite a few comments where people said they were nominating me but I never got the crowns. Very disappointing.

barongreenback

Scaredy_Cat wrote: »

Thanks Emmysmum - I have sent an email via the 'contact the Dooyoo team' section. I haven't deleted the message yet in case they want to see it - but I was a bit annoyed by it! I get enough of this rubbish to my normal email. Didn't everyone else get this, or was I specially chosen because I look so honest?

I'm feeling a bit disillusioned with Dooyoo anyway. I started quite keen and wrote one a day (two on a good day) for the first few days, then it was one every couple of days, now it's about one a week. My last 2 reviews, I put loads of effort in, and had quite a few comments where people said they were nominating me but I never got the crowns. Very disappointing.

I have said this before but dooyoo staff themselves have stated that people who say they have nominated you often are lying just to appear like they are your best mate. A nomination is not a guarantee of a crown so just keep on going and they will come!

Scaredy_Cat_3

barongreenback wrote: »

I have said this before but dooyoo staff themselves have stated that people who say they have nominated you often are lying just to appear like they are your best mate. A nomination is not a guarantee of a crown so just keep on going and they will come!

I know - I remember someone (probably you ) saying this before. Nevertheless, regarding these 2 latest reviews - one got 2 comments from people claiming to have nominated it, while the other had 5 comments where people claimed to have nominated it - not people I 'know', so no reason for them to want to be my best mate!

I would have thought, even if some of them were lying or just forgot to click the button, surely one out of these 7 must have clicked the button?

I know it's just one of those mystical things, who gets the crowns, but to be honest I don't feel inclined to keep going. I really did put a lot of effort into those last 2 reviews and felt that they were good enough to be nominated. So then I felt really pleased when people said they had nominated them, and to have nothing happen just feels like a slap in the face. I'm sorry if this is going against the Dooyoo community ethos, but I can't help the way I feel - and I feel demoralised.

barongreenback

LOL you can feel any way you like I have felt the same way many a time. Hell last week I thought I wrote a crackin review it got nothing and then some of my so so ones get crowned. Crowns are a bit mysterious but they are the fairest system on the review sites. Some categories are very competitive such as books and films whereas others struggle for a good review. I tend to find these are the categories were newer members are most likely to crown. If you dont decide to carry on fair play to you. I write more for the love of writing than the cash. If you do and you want any advice however, drop me a line. Dooyoo have been known to overlook/miss the odd review so it will do know harm if you want a guide or two to look it over.

Emmysmum_2

That's why they do it, the people you don't know. They want to butter you up so you will read them and maybe nom them back. Also, Crowns only go out on a Tuesday generally, so if you keeping Nommed and its not Tuesday yet, you won't see a crown lol. Then there is the fact that even several really good reviews, miss out on getting a crown, even if nommed. being good enough to et nominated for the Emmy, doesn't mean they get it, i just means its fab enough to be in teh running. So don't feel demoralised. Instead preen as you got put in the running. I know people who have taken over a year to get that far, and in over 3 years, so far have only been crowned once. Others manage it more frequently. Even guides don't crowned every time, nommed or not.

Scaredy_Cat_3

Emmysmum - maybe you are right about strangers nominating me in the hope that I'll nominate them back - but they are wasting their time because I only nominate if I really think the review deserves it - and most of the time, I don't even notice who wrote it! I read the content, not the name of the author!

As for the crowns only going out on a Tuesday - I've waited 2 weeks now so if I was getting a crown I think it would have happened by now.

The irony, I suppose (just as Baron Silas said) is that I did receive a crown for one of my reviews - but I didn't think that one was as good as these!

Baron (I am right in thinking your first name is Silas???), thanks for the advice. I wouldn't dream of asking a Guide to look them over. That would be like... questioning an editor!!!! I am a bit of a writer, too, but have to be honest I like writing what I like writing, and that tends not to be reviews! This is just something I thought I would try, and hopefully earn some vouchers along the way. I kind of enjoyed it for a while but am getting steadily more and more disillusioned with it!

Thanks very much to both of you for the encouragement and advice - much appreciated!

barongreenback

Scaredy_Cat wrote: »

Emmysmum - maybe you are right about strangers nominating me in the hope that I'll nominate them back - but they are wasting their time because I only nominate if I really think the review deserves it - most of the time, I don't even notice who wrote it! I read the content, not the name of the author!

As for the crowns only going out on a Tuesday - I've waited 2 weeks now so if I was getting a crown I think it would have happened by now.

The irony, I suppose (just as Baron Silas said) is that I did receive a crown for one of my reviews - but I didn't think that one was as good as these!

Baron (I am right in thinking your first name is Silas???), thanks for the advice. I wouldn't dream of asking a Guide to look them over. That would be like... questioning an editor!!!! I am a bit of a writer, too, but have to be honest I like writing what I like writing, and that tends not to be reviews! This is just something I thought I would try, and hopefully earn some vouchers along the way. I kind of enjoyed it for a while but am getting steadily more and more disillusioned with it!

Thanks very much to both of you for the encouragement and advice - much appreciated!

LOL who is this Silas?

I think you can grow to love review writing but it is not for everybody. Speakers Corner is good if you prefer to vent on a more casual basis???

My suggestion for a Guide to read is not because of you saying "How dare they not crown this" (which as I can clearly see you or not) but merely because dooyoo are as infallible as anyone else and might have missed it. It has happened before!

Out of interest what do you like to write?

Scaredy_Cat_3

barongreenback wrote: »

LOL who is this Silas?

I think you can grow to love review writing but it is not for everybody. Speakers Corner is good if you prefer to vent on a more casual basis???

My suggestion for a Guide to read is not because of you saying "How dare they not crown this" (which as I can clearly see you or not) but merely because dooyoo are as infallible as anyone else and might have missed it. It has happened before!

Out of interest what do you like to write?

You have a small white furry pet, don't you??? And a sidekick called Stiletto? (if my memory serves me correctly!)

I write magazine articles and other 'creative' stuff - humour mostly! But haven't done much recently as I got sort of distracted by real life!

cheap_charlie

Why the need to tell someone you have nominated them for a Crown?

I prefer to just nominate and not tell someone I have done so...I just don't feel its necessary for them to know.

barongreenback

Scaredy_Cat wrote: »

You have a small white furry pet, don't you??? And a sidekick called Stiletto? (if my memory serves me correctly!)

I write magazine articles and other 'creative' stuff - humour mostly! But haven't done much recently as I got sort of distracted by real life!

Ah my Dangermouse history was a bit pants there! I do know his pet was called Nero though. OT alert.