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| Subject: | Re: Reviews - Too Many High Ratings |  |
| Date: | Mar 9, 2005 |
| From: | Peter Ong | |
I agree that perhaps removing the stars for inbox reviews would solve part of this trend. I do a lot of inbox reviews, and after I built the figure, the star-rating would go down due to the amount of work involved, fit problems, gaps, etc.
I normally give high ratings because since I buy a lot of modern figures, quite a few figures have no comparisions. For example, DML's Modern Marines are still one of the only plastic modern Marine offerings on market for at least over a year before Trumpeter's. So if DML's is say a "four-star kit" IMO, what would be a five-star plastic Marine? None will be ever made. If DML's plastic modern Marines were three-star, what would be four or five star kit? $10, $20, $30 more?
Then if we compare the DML plastic figures to resin, would DML go down in ratings, or should we compare resin-to-resin and plastic-to-plastic, or to the whole market?
I haven't done a review in a long while here, but does TL's drop-down rating menu have decimals such as 3.5 stars? There were many times I felt awarding half-a-star instead of rounding up to the next highest level. I didn't want to round down to three-stars because the kit wasn't "average," so I rounded up to 4-stars. Sometimes I say in my review text the kit is 3.5 stars, but when the header says 4-stars, what to believe? Also, since I'm verbose, saying 3.5 stars in the text might get lost.
Another solution would be for inbox reviews to have what some other reviewers say: "Recommended, Highly recomm., Not recomm., Don't waste your money, Fine, if you are a fan of the subject, So-so, etc." That way, the buyer doesn't see a star-rating and wonders if the model is compared to resin, but can see if he should buy or avoid. Perhaps a drop-down box of sayings for inbox reviews would be ideal.
Pete |
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 | Reviews - Too Many High Ratings - Paul A. Owen - Mar 8, 2005 |
| . . . Re: Reviews - Too Many High Ratings - Kurt Laughlin - Mar 8, 2005 |
| . . . . . . "Or are the reviewers just plain wrong?" - Steve Campbell - Mar 9, 2005 |
| . . . Re: Reviews - Too Many High Ratings - Paul A. Owen - Mar 8, 2005 |
| . . . . . . Re: Reviews - Too Many High Ratings - Sean Lynch - Mar 8, 2005 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: Reviews - Too Many High Ratings - Paul A. Owen - Mar 8, 2005 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Reviews - Too Many High Ratings - Ed Bouwmeester - Mar 8, 2005 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Reviews - Too Many High Ratings - Paul A. Owen - Mar 9, 2005 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Reviews - Too Many High Ratings - Steve Frost - Mar 9, 2005 |
| . . . Re: Reviews - Too Many High Ratings - gene fong - Mar 8, 2005 |
| . . . . . . Belly buttons? - Kurt Laughlin - Mar 9, 2005 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: Belly buttons? - Steve Frost - Mar 9, 2005 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Belly buttons? - Paul A. Owen - Mar 9, 2005 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Formal Warning! - Steve Campbell - Mar 10, 2005 |
| . . . Re: Reviews - Too Many High Ratings - David Manning - Mar 8, 2005 |
| . . . . . . Yeah, I like this idea - Kevin Johnson - Mar 10, 2005 |
| . . . Re: Reviews - Too Many High Ratings - Veli-Pekka Pelttari - Mar 8, 2005 |
| . . . Re: Reviews - Too Many High Ratings - Peter Ong - Mar 9, 2005 |
| . . . Re: Reviews - Too Many High Ratings - terry li - Mar 9, 2005 |
| . . . Re: Reviews - Extra stars - Leo Lee - Mar 9, 2005 |
| . . . Re: Reviews - Too Many High Ratings - Steve Frost - Mar 9, 2005 |
| . . . . . . Stars are OK - Kurt Laughlin - Mar 9, 2005 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: Stars are OK - Paul A. Owen - Mar 9, 2005 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . Hey lates review the reviewers!?! - Billy Bishop (Michael Wawrow) - Mar 9, 2005 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Stars are OK - Steve Frost - Mar 11, 2005 |
| . . . Re: Reviews - Too Many High Ratings - adam lehmann - Mar 10, 2005 |
| . . . Well, I had one experience where.... - Mark Fergel - Mar 10, 2005 |
| . . . . . . Re: Well, I had one experience where.... - gene fong - Mar 10, 2005 |
| . . . Re: Reviews - Too Many High Ratings - Late Reply - Doug Chaltry - Mar 11, 2005 |
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