What we have is a rating system. Users are not professionals. Most of time, they simply give a rating based on single event. However, the overall rating will give better indication. For example, Emil's Responsive Theme (4.8). Another example, Twenty Ten > Twenty Eleven > Twenty Twelve as later theme is mainly used to showcase the functionality.<br>
<br clear="all"><div>Stephen Cui<br></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 7:41 PM, Srikanth Koneru <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tskk79@gmail.com" target="_blank">tskk79@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr">That's the thing, they rate based on their view/experience/liking.... they are not professional critics....<br></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 7:06 AM, Daniel Tara <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:contact@onedesigns.com" target="_blank">contact@onedesigns.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I was lurking through theme reviews and noticed something: When writing a review very few people strive to give an objective review and most people rather tend to get personal and biased about it, so instead of writing a generally useful review and give a rating based on the theme's quality they write things like "This is exactly the theme I was looking for, 5/5" or "I was hoping for this theme to have feature X, but was disappointed it doesn't so I'm gonna give it 2/5", which in my opinion just messes up the ratings. I also noticed newer themes tend to have more from the first category and get high ratings regardless of their quality and older but more popular themes tend to have more from the latter so they get a low rating despite being top quality.<br>
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I believe users should understand that just because *they* found a theme to match their needs it doesn't mean it's useful for everybody and also that just because a theme lacks a feature *they* need it doesn't mean the theme is poor quality. So I was thinking the review form should have a guideline like "Please try to be as objective as possible with your review. Try to focus on the theme's general quality rather than a single personal experience to make sure your review is as helpful as possible to others".<br>
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I'd love to hear your thoughts on this.<br>
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Daniel<br>
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