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<blockquote data-quote="Psion" data-source="post: 36683" data-attributes="member: 172"><p>Okay, where do I begin?</p><p></p><p>I have been musing over how reviews are done, and here are a few of my thoughts.</p><p></p><p>1) the existing page is too hard to browse. About the best key the visitors have to browse is the top ten guides. Othen than that, they have to know what product they are looking for.</p><p></p><p>How to help this, I'm not sure, but maybe you could, in addition to the top 10, botton 10, top 10 D20, top 10 adventures, you could make:</p><p></p><p>a) last 10 -- or last 20 -- products released (or last two months, whatever)</p><p>a) top 10 non-advetures, top 10 free products, top 10 downloads, etc. Maybe a top 10 gallery.</p><p></p><p>2) The reviewer list is too long to be on every page. Perhaps the top 10 reviewer should be on every page, and then you can jump to a page that says "browse by reviewer, etc."</p><p></p><p>3) While the recent move to cutting off anything below 7 is understandable, it goes too far. There are many good products that just don't get reviewed as much. In the past, I recomended cutting out the top and bottom review... this won't work. This won't work for the same reason... there are a lot of products that just don't get enough reviews. Anyway, what I am thinking now is that the top review and bottom review should be weighted by 50%. It doesn't matter if you only have one or two reviews since the weighting comes out in the wash. We can still hold them out of being listed until they get 3 scores, but 7 is too much. 5 at the very lowest.</p><p></p><p>4) I think I have suggested some weighting schemes in the past. First, Morrus expressed that the staff reviewers could be weighted heavier. Second, one of the major problems that cause abberent review ratings is someone doing their first review ranting and/or raving.</p><p></p><p>So, what I think is that you can do this: Weight the reviewer by a factor equal to the square root of their number of reviews, with some "cap", which I would say should be 16. This would give a weight of 4. Give the staff reviewers a weight of 5.</p><p></p><p>Another possibility is to do as above, but subtract one from the final weight. This can give a weight of 0 for someone who has only done one review. Ah, well... <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>5) Another threshold you might consider is weighting or making a cutoff for short reviews to the effect of "everybody has said it better, yadda yadda..." Not sure about that one.</p><p></p><p>Those are my initial thoughts.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Psion, post: 36683, member: 172"] Okay, where do I begin? I have been musing over how reviews are done, and here are a few of my thoughts. 1) the existing page is too hard to browse. About the best key the visitors have to browse is the top ten guides. Othen than that, they have to know what product they are looking for. How to help this, I'm not sure, but maybe you could, in addition to the top 10, botton 10, top 10 D20, top 10 adventures, you could make: a) last 10 -- or last 20 -- products released (or last two months, whatever) a) top 10 non-advetures, top 10 free products, top 10 downloads, etc. Maybe a top 10 gallery. 2) The reviewer list is too long to be on every page. Perhaps the top 10 reviewer should be on every page, and then you can jump to a page that says "browse by reviewer, etc." 3) While the recent move to cutting off anything below 7 is understandable, it goes too far. There are many good products that just don't get reviewed as much. In the past, I recomended cutting out the top and bottom review... this won't work. This won't work for the same reason... there are a lot of products that just don't get enough reviews. Anyway, what I am thinking now is that the top review and bottom review should be weighted by 50%. It doesn't matter if you only have one or two reviews since the weighting comes out in the wash. We can still hold them out of being listed until they get 3 scores, but 7 is too much. 5 at the very lowest. 4) I think I have suggested some weighting schemes in the past. First, Morrus expressed that the staff reviewers could be weighted heavier. Second, one of the major problems that cause abberent review ratings is someone doing their first review ranting and/or raving. So, what I think is that you can do this: Weight the reviewer by a factor equal to the square root of their number of reviews, with some "cap", which I would say should be 16. This would give a weight of 4. Give the staff reviewers a weight of 5. Another possibility is to do as above, but subtract one from the final weight. This can give a weight of 0 for someone who has only done one review. Ah, well... :) 5) Another threshold you might consider is weighting or making a cutoff for short reviews to the effect of "everybody has said it better, yadda yadda..." Not sure about that one. Those are my initial thoughts. [/QUOTE]
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