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Get some more traction for http://BuyersVote.com http://BuyersVote.com It's stackoverflow but for product reviews, critical mass is getting there but not quite

Get some more traction for http://BuyersVote.com http://BuyersVote.com It's stackoverflow but for product reviews, critical mass is getting there but not quite. I have some other features I want to add like "awards" which show off the best and worst rated products of the year, month, etc. It would be fun to publicly shame bad products/companies.

cubicle67 17y ago
As someone who bases a number of purchasing decisions on online reviews (mainly amazon.com and productreview.com.au) , may I offer some feedback It looks like you're trying to make things as simple as possible, but I feel you really need some way for people to rate things other than good/bad (up/down in your case). You need a way for someone like me to be able to see that product A is considered better than product B, and no, number of up votes doesn't do that. All it tells me is that more people purchased item A and thought is was not rubbish. This may mean the product has been on the market longer, or just has better marketing. Seeing that 50 people gave product A 3 stars, but 10 people gave 5 stars to product B carries more information Being able to see the distribution of votes is also important. Some products are divisive, with some people loving them (5 stars) and others hating them (1 star), and other products are just uniformly considered average (3 stars). Showing this distribution also tells me more about the product than just showing me products C and D both average 3 stars Reviews. No idea how you'll do this, but you absolutely need a means of encouraging people to write good informative reviews. Allowing users to rate reviews seems to work for some places, and productreview has some sort of rewards scheme based around reviews. Given that no product is perfect, it's a well written review that allows me to see what the faults are and figure out if they're likely to be an issue given the way I intend to use it. It's the reviews that flesh out why some users gave a product 2 stars and others gave it 5. If, for example, I wanted to buy a mobile phone and I could see that the people who rated it 1 star did so because the sole carrier in that country has lousy coverage I'd know that didn't affect me as I have (being in Aus) 5 different carriers from which I can purchase said phone. Oh, I like the clean layout of the site. looks good.

cubicle67 17y ago

As someone who bases a number of purchasing decisions on online reviews (mainly amazon.com and productreview.com.au) , may I offer some feedback It looks like you're trying to make things as simple as possible, but I feel you really need some way for people to rate things other than good/bad (up/down in your case). You need a way for someone like me to be able to see that product A is considered better than product B, and no, number of up votes doesn't do that. All it tells me is that more people purchased item A and thought is was not rubbish. This may mean the product has been on the market longer, or just has better marketing. Seeing that 50 people gave product A 3 stars, but 10 people gave 5 stars to product B carries more information Being able to see the distribution of votes is also important. Some products are divisive, with some people loving them (5 stars) and others hating them (1 star), and other products are just uniformly considered average (3 stars). Showing this distribution also tells me more about the product than just showing me products C and D both average 3 stars Reviews. No idea how you'll do this, but you absolutely need a means of encouraging people to write good informative reviews. Allowing users to rate reviews seems to work for some places, and productreview has some sort of rewards scheme based around reviews. Given that no product is perfect, it's a well written review that allows me to see what the faults are and figure out if they're likely to be an issue given the way I intend to use it. It's the reviews that flesh out why some users gave a product 2 stars and others gave it 5. If, for example, I wanted to buy a mobile phone and I could see that the people who rated it 1 star did so because the sole carrier in that country has lousy coverage I'd know that didn't affect me as I have (being in Aus) 5 different carriers from which I can purchase said phone. Oh, I like the clean layout of the site. looks good.