DooYoo - Get Paid to Write Reviews Online

ThinkingOfLinking

I have been getting back into DooYoo lately (same name there as here). I'd not been on for ages and am mainly trying to catch up at the moment as I "owe" about 800 reads/rates.

cloud9

I have had some of my earlier reviews locked adn was asked to look at my reviews.
I finished my revisions at the weekend and emailed asking them to relook at my reveiws..how long before I hsould expect an answer as I have not heard anything from them yet?

bandraoi

This business of rating people because they rated me irks me. I can understand the friendliness of it, but personally I prefer to only rate something if I know something about the product in the first place.

A review is only useful if it's accurate.

darlo_fan

bandraoi wrote: »

This business of rating people because they rated me irks me. I can understand the friendliness of it, but personally I prefer to only rate something if I know something about the product in the first place.

A review is only useful if it's accurate.

Actually I would say a review is only useful if it gives me an accurate insight to the product/service.

I dont need to know anything, bar the basics, when I read a review, All thats important to me is that the review I am reading is about something I may want to buy.

Fiver29

darlo_fan wrote: »

Actually I would say a review is only useful if it gives me an accurate insight to the product/service.

I would agree with that, if I knew about the product in the first place I wouldn't need to read a review. And thats how I base my readings, as if I dont know anything about it and want to find out.

bandraoi

If you don't know anything about the product, it's impossible to know if the review is accurate, and therefore if it's useful.

F'instance, I look to return a review, and the other person has written almost exclusively about toy soldiers. I have no idea what should be included in a useful review about toy soldiers or what is completely irrelevant to someone with an interest in them.

The whole review could talk about the fantastic quality with which a box set depicts French revolutionaries, when in fact they're in the wrong uniforms.

Without some knowledge of the product, I'm in no position to say whether the review is useful or not.

scubaangel

But the point is - is that useful to you in deciding if you might like to buy that product or not? Thats what reviews should aim to do, help a consumer make a decision, so you have to assume that the consumer knows nothing or very little before writing.

Or thats how I rate anyway, if I know anything about the procuct or not.

Fiver29

Its all subjective really, what one person feels is good another wont. As I said last week I thought my new reviews were far better than my crowned review, then this week I did a review I wasn't really happy with, but it got a crown, yet the ones I thought were brilliant didn't, its all in the eye of the beholder.

bandraoi

scubaangel wrote: »

But the point is - is that useful to you in deciding if you might like to buy that product or not? Thats what reviews should aim to do, help a consumer make a decision, so you have to assume that the consumer knows nothing or very little before writing.

Or thats how I rate anyway, if I know anything about the procuct or not.

The review may help me decide whether or not to buy a product, but it's only useful to me if the decision is the correct one.

I suppose personally I would prefer if a Very Useful review was the result of people who knew the review was useful rather than people who just thought it probably was.

cmh4135

bandraoi wrote: »

This business of rating people because they rated me irks me. I can understand the friendliness of it, but personally I prefer to only rate something if I know something about the product in the first place.

A review is only useful if it's accurate.

You're not alone with the feeling that return rates aren't the best way forward. There is no point in reading reviews about toy soldiers if you're not interested in them, although, I don't think you need to be an expert in them to rate that review.

There's a real danger in trying to assess the accuracy of a review when rating. Some things are subjective and where you might express disagreement with something that in the written word is stated as fact, is actually opinion, others may agree.

Clearly if there is manifestly misleading info in a review it doesn't deserve a high rate (I come across this quite a bit in my guide categories of Banking and Campus/Careers). BUT - be careful that you're not just disagreeing with opinion.

I think Scuba mentioned that you should assume no knowledge on the part of the reader to have a really good review. Although, in part, I'd agree, I think there is a danger here too. When you start thinking like this you start thinking about including loads of factual stuff which soon becomes lists of specs and so on. I think it fair to assume that a punter can go to a manufacturer's website and get the specs... what they need to know is do they live up to the standard expected.

Of course, all this is just my opinion. There are many ways of using the site!