This Reviewing, Rating, Commenting Issue!

Advantages: Makes reviews and ciao better generally.
Disadvantages: hmmm.....

...Only five Ciaoists wrote a review on this topic. I am the sixth person as at this time. So I wondered: why haven't we have so many reviews on it? The issue of Reading, Rating and Commenting on a review has been a long standing one. In fact I shall say right from when ciao was lunched. I may not have been around at the time, but I strongly believe that Ciaos existence relied solely on these three issues. I wonder If people don't read, rate and comment on reviews we write, then there won't be buyers of these product we review, and that is why I agree on torr's review when he wrote : ''Ciao relies for its existence on revenue from advertisers who take space - or hyperlinks or pop-ups - on its pages. The readiness of advertisers to advertise, and the rates they pay, depend partly on the relevance...

tomi111 21.05.2005 (30.04.2009) · Read review
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How Do You Rate This

Advantages: Interesting Reads
Disadvantages: takes all your time up

...Rating and commenting on Ciao is very important to me. Ciao has improved immensely with the new look site and better speed of pages. It also offers the incentive of earning up to £15 for premier opinions which is a great boost to anyone’s account and spurs you on to try harder and make a review a lot better. However if nobody bothered to read or rate your opinions or vice versa then it would make Ciao very dull indeed and quite useless. The idea is to read opinions that interest you or for instance if you are thinking of a purchase and want to see what other people have said about it first. You should then rate accordingly whether you thought that opinion was Very helpful, helpful, Fairly helpful or even not helpful at all! This varies from person to person and it really depends on the individual as I could find...

broksababe 25.01.2001 · Read review
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Rated: NeXXXt

Advantages: Lots of big R&B tunes
Disadvantages: A few average tunes

...?Rated Next? was the 1997 debut from the R&B trio Next. Hailing from Minneapolis, Minnesota, Tweety, T-Low and R.L. broke through with the single, ?Too Close?, which in the UK was more famously covered by the Pop band, Blue. On this album, you have them do the most explicit R&B you are likely to hear, to get you right into the feel of what they are singing about. 1. ?Intro? 2. ?Too Close? I expect that you will be familiar with the Blue version, if you don?t remember the original, but one this one you actually feel exactly what they are going through, and in this one, unlike the Blue version has them go at it with explicit lyrics to tell exactly what they mean when they have girls grind up on them for the slow dances in the clubs. It is a killer tune, and begins the album off in a great way. **Five Stars** 3. ?Butta Love? I would...

XICripZ 07.04.2009 (16.03.2009) · Read review
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The Rating Game

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...Reading and rating opinions is rather more difficult than it might first appear. Your name will be clearly displayed next to the rating you give and you want to ensure that the rating is honest and impartial, otherwise people may not take you seriously when it comes to rating opinions you have written yourself. Firstly, try not to be influenced by the ratings left already by other members. Read the opinion through and base your rating decision entirely on how useful YOU found the opinion to be. Ask yourself whether the piece provided enough detail? Did it tell you everything you needed to know? And most importantly, did you learn from it? Would it influence you in trying the product or service? Was the advice offered impartial and honest? Remember that everybody has their own writing style and because the opinion may not have been...

Squiggles 30.01.2001 · Read review
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Rate Me High & I'll Rate You High? Don't Think So

Advantages: helps you learn from others
Disadvantages: none

...a good camera" when the reviewer has said the camera is not up to scratch or "really well written review" when the reviewer can barely string a sentence together and has dozens of typos in the review. If you rate a review as "very helpful" there is really no valid reason to then write a comment that says "good review" or "very helpful review" as it will be perceived that you're only doing this to get the 3 extra community points associated with leaving a comment. If you rating differently to the majority of rates you will be forced to leave a comment and in this case you should be clear as to why you have rated as you have done. I always know when someone is a dot chaser (here on Ciao you get a dot colour each time you pass a certain amount of Community Points). When I see a rating of Very Helpful on a review and a comment left which just...

anonymili 06.11.2008 · Read review
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ratings and comments !!!

Advantages: A site that offers great oppurtunites and a great source for consumers.
Disadvantages: innapropriate ratings and comments.

...*FINALLY MOVED! THANKS TO ALL WHO HAVE RETURNED TO RE-RATE AND COMMENT!* This site is so vast and so detailed it would be near impossible to review the whole site in detail and complete it as one review. For this reason, I have decided to review one area of it. However it would be wrong not to offer a brief summary of the site as a whole. The site presents itself as a consumer community; members of the public are offered the opportunity become a member, create reviews and complete surveys on a terrific number of products available on the market today?. with the added bonus of getting paid for it. These reviews are available for the public and members to read and rate accordingly. I would like to highlight that that really was a BRIEF summary (intentionally). The area I have chosen to review, is the ?ratings...

L0BSTER_QUADRILLE 19.04.2004 (08.06.2004) · Read review
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It's No Surprise That This Album Rocks

Advantages: Everything, a very strong album
Disadvantages: Nothing much at all.

...fallen in love with. I have to say I can?t hear myself listening to it a lot, I know there are lot of better and more listenable songs on the album, however this is great song. Chris Daughtry?s vocals are fantastic as always, I don?t think I?ve ever heard him sing off key or anything like that, his voice is just fantastic, this song does have a bit of a Nickelback feel who are definitely and influence on Daughtry?s music. This song is very good, very strong, it makes you listen right from the get go and it?s well placed at the start of the album, it starts things off with a bang and it really is a great start to what I hope is going to be a great album. Rating: 8/10 (A fantastic track, not as listenable for me as some of the others on the album however) Track 2- No Surprise This is the song that I first heard from this album...

DixieChick10 21.07.2009 · Read review
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Review of Leave This Town - Daughtry

To Rate or to Rant, that is the question

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...Having read a few opinions on how people go about rating and commenting on reviews, I thought I would throw my hat into the ring. Now I'm not saying my way is the best way, as everyone has their own individual criteria for rating and commenting, and no one's is right or wrong, but this is the way which works the best for me. WHY BOTHER ══════════ Before I give you my thoughts on rating and commenting, have you ever considered why we bother? There are loads of reasons to spend time reading and rating other member's reviews, with the foremost one being to help Ciao to become an effective consumer tool. Ciao relies on our ratings so that it can provide the consumers with the best information and opinions to assist them in making a purchase. If consumers stop using Ciao...

christianfilmcritic 20.03.2006 · Read review
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Anaylze This

Advantages: Performance
Disadvantages: could have been a little better

...Analyze This released in 1998 is a story about a Mob boss played by Robert DeNiro & Psychiatrist Billy Crystal, directed by Harold Ramis. Cast: Robert DeNiro (As Paul Vitti) Billy Crystal (As Ben Sobol) Lisa Kudrow (As Laura MacNamara) Plot: Paul Vitti is the head of crime gang in New York, for last few days he feels that he has been having Heart Attacks, but doctor suggests him that there are Panic Attacks. There is a big crime meeting in 2 weeks time where every big name from the crime world will be there to discuss about how to go further. A meeting like this had taken place earlier in 1957 when Paul was a child. Vitti is also in war with his arch rival Primo Sindone (Played by Palminteri), so this is also taking on him and his stress out. Dr. Ben Sobol is a Psychiatrist who by accidentally meets with one of the right...

majeedkazi 15.07.2008 · Read review
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UPDATED Rate on Merit

Advantages: Its helps the site, It helps your own opinions to get read. It is Vital for the site.
Disadvantages: Don't revenge rate

...Oh well, I thought I would carry on with my updating of old opinions, the original opinion is below and because of the mixed rating it received I thought I would try and add my extra gained knowledge, since the original was written. How should you rate an opinion? Well, I guess this is all down to personal taste and things like that, but I will tell you my way of rating an opinion. When reading an opinion I look for 3 things: How well is the opinion actually written i.e. Spelling, Typo’s, etc. I will then look at how helpful the content of the opinion is and could more have been added and finally, I make sure that the opinion is not copied, if it is, I will automatically give a Unhelpful rating, as there is nothing worse than to see cheats stealing opinions and getting a load of Very Helpfuls. How well is the opinion...

brianlfc 22.01.2001 (20.06.2001) · Read review
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