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

[Stephen Cui]

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.

Stephen Cui

On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 7:41 PM, Srikanth Koneru <tskk79 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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