[theme-reviewers] An idea regarding the user review system

[Srikanth Koneru]

That's the thing, they rate based on their view/experience/liking.... they
are not professional critics....


On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 7:06 AM, Daniel Tara <contact at onedesigns.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
> 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".
>
> I'd love to hear your thoughts on this.
>
> Daniel
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