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== About This Template == Hello, I have recently seen a number of new users getting low ratings purely because of poorly laid out reviews, and such, so I decided to let you guys use what I have... more

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  • 544 of 545 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 7 Kukana

    Member since 12/08/2003

    Reviews written: 200

    5 Stars How to Earn At Least a Few Pennies on Ciao 20/07/2004
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Well-written reviews lead to positive ratings of value to consumers, and may earn you some money

    Disadvantages Disadvantages It won't be a lot of money, and you might disagree with me

    Everyone has an opinion. That's at least part of why we're writing on Ciao. So long as you stick to the guidelines (no plagiarism, no racism etc) and write something about the product whose category you're writing in, you can write whatever you like. Ciao does not censor reviews, so if you came here to rant because of a faulty product, or to rave about the latest CD you bought, that's OK. You can write anywhere between 120 and (I believe) 5000 words of your choosing, and submit your review. Do make sure it's in the right category, however, or it won't be read by people who might be interested ... more
  • 128 of 128 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 7 tractor-boy

    Member since 05/03/2005

    Reviews written: 83

    5 Stars GAME REVIEWING FOR DUMMIES 02/01/2007
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages You get to read/write an interesting and informative Games review

    Disadvantages Disadvantages You may disagree

    I can't help feeling that a review telling other people how to write is at best pompous and at worst darn right patronising. Nevertheless I feel duty bound to share my wisdom in what I feel makes a good, informative and readable synopsis of a game. Remember though this is MY PERSONAL OPINION, if you do not agree then fine, as long as you write to the best of your ability and with passion then it's all good. Introduction For me, a good game review is comprised of several short paragraphs detailing the various facets of the game in a friendly flowing manner without lapsing into jargon or cyber ... more
  • 104 of 104 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 5 jouk04

    Member since 18/02/2004

    Reviews written: 97

    5 Stars 'Quick Fix' 17/02/2006
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Big Fun

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Can Be Addictive

    Telling someone how to write opinions on Ciao is a bit like telling your grandmother how to suck eggs, and ultimately as pointless as everyone has their own way of doing it. However there are some universal rules that most people stick to in some form or another, be warned though that writing opinions on ciao can be highly ADDICTVTIVE. There are many forms of addiction, alcohol drugs, smoking, but one of the most addictive vices known to mankind in recent years has been found on the pages of Ciao where hapless victims have been found in a terrible state, ranting, raving and reviewing in an ... more
  • 109 of 109 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 6 CaptainDisaster

    Member since 18/12/2000

    Reviews written: 210

    4 Stars Guides to writing VERY HELPFUL reviews 14/05/2005
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages It tells you how to write VH Book, Movie, or Game reviews... and how to write really BAD ones, too :-)

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Doesn't tell you anything else!

    WARNING ONE - this is an amalgam of not one, not two, not even three, but FOUR advice guides I wrote for Epinions a while ago. They're a little abridged but it's still pretty long. WARNING TWO - this is most useful if you write (or plan to write) BOOK, MOVIE, or GAME reviews. If you don't… then it is far less helpful!! If you are not dissuaded from continuing by those warnings, please read on… ***************** This covers how to write a VERY HELPFUL Book, Movie, or Game review. Between the three I've written over 200 reviews now so I'm fairly well up on what makes a good review in those ... more
  • 66 of 66 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 6 Discerna

    Member since 26/03/2003

    Reviews written: 124

    3 Stars Who cares what I think? 04/01/2005
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages You may find my pondering helpful and/or interesting

    Disadvantages Disadvantages You may not

    I’ve paused to ponder for a while before putting fingers to my keyboard on this, my 100th opinion on Ciao. You might think that after reading and rating thousands of opinions and making 99 contributions of my own, I would have ready-formed freely-flowing advice to offer on how to write opinions, but when I reflect on opinions I have read and valued, and those I have written, and I look at the plethora of advice already available in this and other sections on Ciao, I wonder how helpful some of it really is. I am rather glad I didn’t find most of it until after I’d written a few opinions and ... more