A Ciao Handbook for New Users.

Advantages: A handbook for new users - hopefully will answer any questions you may have.
Disadvantages: Sure to have forgotten something!

...When I first started on Ciao, I had a lot of unanswered questions which, until after extensive research, were left unanswered. Below is a new user's handbook to Ciao - hopefully, something new members can use to answer those questions, and find out just what Ciao is really all about! It doubles as a manual - so if you're unsure how to do certain things, read on... Firstly; What is Ciao? Rather simply - a review website. Ciao offers members the ability to read or write reviews, rate others and be rated, become part of a community and to make money. **Reading and Rating** I've decided to put this before 'Writing your own reviews' as it is very important to read others first. This really allows you to see what members are looking for in reviews, and I'd suggest searching for products that you would like to write about yourself...

Sam_Garland 10.08.2006 · Read review
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Review of Advice for New Members

New people, new way of life.

Advantages: Hope it helps new members by relating my experience.
Disadvantages: None as long as you are aware.

...This is my 100th review on Ciao and I thought I could impart just a little of my experience so far. What better then, than to help some new aspiring members. There has not been many reviews written on this subject but it is a useful topic for beginners to Ciao. I wish I could have consulted something like this when I joined, but this category didn?t exist. There are now five reviews on this subject and this one will make six. Maybe you can read them all and learn a little from each, as each writer will have certain opinions or perceptions of Ciao. Some of this review is advice and some will be a relating of experiences I have encountered since joining. Hopefully this will assist you in making the most of what I consider to be generally an excellent site. I do not pretend to be an expert on the workings of inner ciao as some...

milleniumzeus 19.09.2004 · Read review
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Review of Advice for New Members

Ciao - Advice to Help You Get Started

Advantages: hopefully it will give you a good idea about site etiquette
Disadvantages: you don't have to take advice given here or anywhere else on the site or do you?

...constructive feedback from my peers on the sites I write for as well as to be able to give constructive feedback myself. Feedback is a much better word than criticism, don't you agree? I thought some of you might be interested to know what I feel a consumer review writer should take into consideration if they want to get the best out of sites like Ciao. This is not an exhaustive list of how to use the site as a new member - you can read ALL about that in the site guidelines - I felt I'd put this together for people to read stuff that they might not be able to work out from reading the site rules. READING/RATING/COMMENTING Well you might have already noticed that if you don't read and rate around the site you won't get many reads and rates yourself. If you're not able to spend the time reading and rating other people's reviews...

anonymili 30.06.2009 (05.10.2009) · Read review
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Review of Advice for New Members

Is Ciao being Abused by New Members

Advantages: None that I can think of
Disadvantages: Everyone gets hurt in the process

...I'm usually a very helpful person on this site, and I especially try to be so with the new members here. I try to let people know exactly why I've rated them down. I do this, because I think that we should always try to do our best, and writing for Ciao should be no exception. But sometimes I get really upset, and although I do my best to keep calm - and succeed most of the time, I'm starting to lose my patience here. I've laboured long and hard to not post this op, but I've finally decided to let you all know what I think about some of the problems here with our newest members. The other day, I was forced by a new member to report them for abusing Ciao. The person had posted four or five ops every day for three days. Now, I could have sat quietly by, if those ops had been good ones. But there wasn't one of those ops that...

TheChocolateLady 11.10.2002 · Read review
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Review of Member advice on Internet Abuse

So, you've joined a new world!

Advantages: Hopefully easy for a newbie
Disadvantages: It's your choice!

...the review include details on help/customer support, interface, navigation, content (for websites), ease of use and performance and affiance. (for software, especially). ~Surveys~ If you want to do surveys simply complete filling in personal info on http://www.ciao.co.uk/account.php/TabId/11 . You will then be emailed some every month; however you're only normally eligible for one or two. ~CoTs~ After you start writing reviews, leaving comments and rating you'll develop a Circle of trust. These members appreciate your presence on the site and believe in your opinions and advice. Another way to develop CoTs is to add users to yours, taking you trust them, and they may trust you and add you back. (I trust 19 users, 11trust me. Mutual trust 11) ~Guest books~ Guest books are a way of communicating with users on Ciao. The private...

andersonfamily 10.01.2005 · Read review
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The Sea Of Lost Souls A Beginners Guide To Ciao

Advantages: You Make Friends
Disadvantages: You Lose Friends

...The Sea Of Lost Souls - A Beginners Guide To Ciao….. I read a review last week about Ciao and to be honest I found the comments more entertaining than the review. Anyway it prompted me to write about the land of make believe that is Ciao. And yes Jesi I know it's officially Ciao.co.uk but bugger it if everyone else is doing it under Ciao.com I sure as hell am not going to miss out!!........... So let's start at the beginning, the poor new member and that white dot. Poor sod hasn't a clue about the site and many don't even know they have a private guestbook until they are a few weeks on the site. Now as I have returned a few times I know how hard it is to get established on this site and it's even harder now. Thing is at best they only get about 14 reads and it's the same members on here that encourage them. You check...

BadCompany77 04.08.2006 (17.08.2008) · Read review
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Review of Advice for New Members

A new members experience

Advantages: good, friendly
Disadvantages: there's always some prats trying to spoil our fun

...I am a fairly new member on ciao, so I thought I would write an opinion about what I think about ciao and some of the experience I have had whist on the site. I was introduces to ciao less than 3 weeks ago and since then I have never looked back. I have only had my computer 4 weeks and Ciao was the first site that I when on, however thanks to some of ciaos members. I have since been surfing a few more - Flashpointz - cdm thanks I have now got 7 chunks, Beejee -iwins thanks the games are great, Trampus - median - they haven’t emailed me yet but there’s still time. The list is endless so sorry if I have forgot any one. Being new I’d like to tell everyone that most of the people who rated my first opinion also left comment telling me kind things and wishing me the best of luck on the site and a welcome message. (Ah...

misslook 26.06.2001 · Read review
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Review of ciao.co.uk

Welcome aboard. Your fire exits are here, here and here...

Advantages: See text.
Disadvantages: See text.

...I would just like to write a review for all new members on Ciao, although I don't actually claim to be the best on here I would still just like to think that I have got something to offer to you all. However, hopefully all existing and current members can get something from others to - or else there is something wrong with you! Thankfully by now, you should be reading this AFTER you have completed your registration process. Otherwise, you are wasting your time as if you are not a member then you will be unable to make of anything that I am writing here anywhere else - for the simple reasons inasmuch as it relates only to Ciao, nowehere else. There is now a new ruling on Ciao, whereby you cannot actually rate another members' review until after you have written one that has been rated as at least helpful. You will know this if you...

dynamicnurse 25.04.2009 (26.04.2009) · Read review
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Review of Advice for New Members

New member

Advantages: none yet
Disadvantages: none yet

...Hi there First of all, I´d like to apologise for a simple but important thing in a web site like this. I´m spanish, and my english might not be as good as I wish. So, if I make mistakes (and I will), I hope you´ll be there to help me to improve. The reason for me to becoming a member of ciao.co.uk is very simple. There are two reasons, as a matter of fact. The first one, and most important for me, is about my english. I think this web site might help me to improve it, so that´s a good reason, and probably enough. And the second one is that I am a member of ciao.es (spanish ciao) since september 2002, almost a year, and now that I know how this web site works, I´d like to see how does this one, the british one. Another reason, or let´s say another part of this second reason, is that I'm finding out a few things of ciao...

BLUESY 02.09.2003 · Read review
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Review of Everything that starts with N ...

Meet the New Member of our Family

Advantages: 3 proper rear seats with diagonal belts
Disadvantages: Hard to park for me!

...When a couple of friends bought Citroen Xsara Picasso's last year, I was mightily impressed by the shape, and the size of the car. We looked into getting one but realistically we couldn't afford a new one and even a used one would stretch our budget. But when my mum and dad gifted us some money, we realised that it could be very affordable and would really help us manage a new one. So my challenge started..... I had to talk the other driver in the house into it. There are 3 types of Picasso. The basic model is know as the LX. The key equipment in an LX is: - ABS with electronic Breakforce distribution - Driver, front passenger and front lateral airbags - Height adjustable front seat belts with pre-tensioners and force limiters - On Board Trip computer - CD/Radio Stereo with 6 speakers - High Frequency remote...

Groovee 02.06.2004 · Read review
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Review of Citroen Xsara Picasso