Another one of these reviews

Advantages: kept me busy for a little while
Disadvantages: Everyone is probably fed up of these by now

...wish you had done more of? Redecorating, then I wouldn't be worrying about it now. 16) What do you wish you had done less of? Housework. But thats never going to happen unless I win the lottery and can hire a maid. I also wish I'd used less exclamation marks, I'm addicted to them and will be trying really hard not to include too many in my reviews from now on. 17) What was your favourite TV programme? Oh no. I'm going to be honest, which means I'll be embarrassed. - Home & Away. Oh, and Heros, when is it coming back? 18) Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate last year? Yes! See Q.10. I don't want to waste my time & energy on such a useless emotion, but when I catch sight of him a huge part of me wants to gouge his eyes out and chops his hands off, especially as it looks like he's going to get away with it. I...

watkins11 02.02.2009 · Read review
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Review of Your Personal Review of 2008

~ Happy Birthday to me!! 100th review ~

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...~ REVIEW NO. 100 ~ I have finally reached my 100th review on Ciao and have been thinking what to do for this for weeks. I have just decided to do some questions found on members picks that others have answered in the past. This subject is all about me joining Ciao and my time spent on here so far. I?d never really thought I would reach this many but glad I have. As I have only been a member since April 2008 I think it is quite an achievement to be reaching this far in a year and a half. It seems I have been a member longer and I am glad I have met a lot of nice people on this site. I think even in the last year the site has changed a lot. When I first joined it was mostly long term members and I didn?t notice many new members. Everyone was really helpful and gave me good advice. The first members that I remember helping me...

blackmagicstar4 08.10.2009 · Read review
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Review of My 100th Review

100th yoghurt review (400th Ciao review!!!)

Advantages: fun, taste, aroma, its yoghurt!, milestone
Disadvantages: pricey, unhealthy

...Okay so strictly speaking this is not my 100th review on Ciao, however it is my 100th yoghurt review, so it seems appropriate that since this does not have its own category (!), it could go here. I'm also celebrating my 400th review too, so it's a double party for me! Looking back at some of my older, more inhospitable, reviews, I came across my first yoghurt review. The 4th September 2007 marks the beginning of my climb to 100 yoghurt reviews, with a piddly little review on a Muller Strawberry Fruit Corner, with a shameful title and limited content. I've since then updated it and even still it's quite problematic for its readers! Since then though they have improved, if even slightly, and to be honest have become more enjoyable to write too! Because of Ciao, I've encouraged myself to sample a wide range of yoghurts I may not have...

Amy69 11.04.2009 · Read review
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Review of My 100th Review

Writing a review on what?

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...I have been a member on Ciao now for quite some time, and in this time I have seen many different authors -or should I say, many different styles of writing. There have been many reviews on writing a review, as well as themany comments and ratings that people give in the process. However, I would just like to write one now on the new layout of the writing page processes. I wasn't a huge fan of it at first because of the change, but now that it has been here for a while I have grown increasingly fond of it. Once you have found the name of whatsoever it is that you wish to write a review on, you then have to click on the button marked 'Write a Review' - this then takes you to the relevant page. You will then see the page laid out in the following manner: (the top of the page from where you begin is marked up start here) My...

dynamicnurse 22.02.2009 · Read review
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Review of Member feedback on Write a Review

Quick reviews

Advantages: Quick and easy
Disadvantages: Possibly innacurate and can't be deleted if posted by mistake

...Hi, following feedback have moved what was originally here in the correct section - hope that helps! With regards to quick reviews, I am quite new here, but I think they can be useful, in that someone with little experience such as myself can quickly add comments about a product without having to worry too much about how t do it. The downside is that perhaps, as suggested in other posts, it would make people lazy and perhaps it is good that people have to learn how to post properly - as I am doing at the moment! I would say though, that with such a feature it might also be useful to be able to delete the review too - quick reviews might be posted by mistake if someone is in a hurry. Unfortunately that happened to me!...

larsbaby 11.09.2007 · Read review
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The review of a review...

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...This review is on the issue of whether review writers should meet, and at the moment I don't know if this is a good thing or a bad one. But let's just see shall we, and end up seeing how much we all like the idea? I have heard of some very successful meets in the past, but unfortunately none of them seem to be down in or around Plymouth. OK I think the closest one was Bristol, but even that is still an hour and a half to two hours away (dependant on speed and/ or mode of transport). And so for me, one thing would have to be the location of the meet in order for not just myself but also for other people to attend it. It is all very well having one of these things on for people to attend, but it does of course need to be in a very accessible place. Leading on from this, it needs to be in a place within that place that is easy...

dynamicnurse 09.02.2008 · Read review
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Review of Should review writers meet?

YEAH! I did it! 100 reviews!

Advantages: Bit of fun
Disadvantages: Long

...I don't quite know how it happened, I got to review 99 and then stopped writing. Life took over in a big way, things changed and I no longer had the time to sit reading reviews, let alone writing any. I still had a couple of people left on alerts and one day I got an email to say Bollinger28 had written a new review, so I toddled off to read it and when I got to the end I saw that she'd challenged me as one of her 5 to complete this challenge. It still took a while because summer was here and I hardly get computer time, it is the being outside as much as possible that eats into it. Anyway, today being the first day of August 2008 and here I am, there are clouds about and the wind is blowing, visitors are coming later and I don't feel like doing housework so what better thing to do than answer these questions? 1. What first made you...

solamarie 01.08.2008 · Read review
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Review of My 100th Review

#100? - How I Serve My Video Game Reviews

Advantages: Say no to lists, buyers guides and factual overkill
Disadvantages: This guy should use a spell checker

...The majority of reviews that I write are on video games, so I thought with the 100th review I post here on Ciao I would share a little bit of insight into how I go about them. My approach to review writing is seemingly always changing and there are reviews of mine in the past where I feel I had written too much. Nowadays, I acknowledge there are so many games I want to play and then write about, so I would rather get to the point then go comprehensive. As much as writing is like therapy for me video games are my true love. Before I put together my review, I intend to prepare (on scrap paper preferably), by making bullet points of things I've felt strongly about the game under headers. I admit because I'm in such haste (either that or I'm too lazy) sometimes I skip this step. I tend to type up the paragraphs on Notepad (Windows Word...

scream4bruce 14.03.2008 · Read review
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Review of My 100th Review

A Song Review

Advantages: Good music which shows Stevie Wonder?s different styles.
Disadvantages: Differences of opinion about greatest hits.

...When reviewing an album with ?greatest hits? in the title, by an artist who has used a variety of music styles in his long career, there is bound to be controversy about which tracks should be there. I don?t want to haggle about Stevie Wonder?s best tracks, so far, as I probably wouldn?t end up pleasing many of his fans, if any. (Some critics seem to think that if a song is commercially good, it probably isn?t musically good.) Instead, I want to tell you about the tracks on this album and let you decide whether it is worth buying. One thing I am sure about is that there is no rubbish on this album. The tracks, to me, are either good or brilliant, therefore, I give the album 5 stars. A wide range of music influenced Stevie as he grew up including Gospel, Jazz, Reggae, and Motown. All of these influences can be heard on ?A Song...

luckyarchers 24.08.2004 · Read review
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Review of Song Review (The Very Best Of Stevie Wonder) - Stevie Wonder

How do I rate a review?

Advantages: None.
Disadvantages: Everything.

...I would just like to write a review on the new rates page, something that has not been here for very long but I am sure that a lot of us have already seen it by now. If not, then no doubt you will do once you have finished reading this review! Or unless you have fallen asleep by then. Whereas the general ideas behind rating a review is still just the same, the actual page itself has changed - but in my opinion, for the worse. It is all a lot of clutter in a small space, with the actual review somewhere in the middle of it all. Once you have finished reading the review, at the bottom of the screen are the buttons for how you wish to rate the review - off topic; not helpful; somewhat helpful; helpful; very helpful, and exceptional. As soon as you have done this, you also then have the same usual opportunities in order to comment...

dynamicnurse 26.02.2009 · Read review
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