I spent some time thinking about this. Any review template should be considered from several points of view and uses.
1. Eden Fantasys - Their primary goal is high quality, informative reviews. These should be effective to customers, help individuals make decisions about the purchase of a product, and may be used for decisions regarding inventory and stock. Having a consistent appearance for all reviews makes the site more user friendly and professional, and technically easy to maintain.
Eden does not actually want reviews "The neighbors heard me scream" which was recently published.
2. Advanced Reviewer - Primary goal is to write high quality reviews that match their individual writing styles and people want to read. In order to do so, they need a template that actually works. (I deliberately excluded a beginning reviewer because they may have all sorts of goals.)
3. Customer - They want the ability to read about a product and find the information that they are interested in. This can vary between a "new" user who may have never heard the concept that silicone lube should not be applied to silicone toys or an "advanced" user who is looking to purchase their 50th vibrator and just wants to make sure that this one is fabulous.
A good review should have the following (and the template should actually encourage that all relevant information is included)
- Basic information about the product including packing, care and cleaning, description, storage information, safety precautions.
- Vibration information as necessary
- Additional information about the unique factors of product. This might include a particular actress, specially designed shape, etc., the fact that it broke in 3 seconds.
- Quality
- Personal experience or comments.
- Additional information - such as comparisons, author information, other reviews, etc.
I know that there are a lot of different templates out there because Eden carries a lot of different types of products. I actually looked at a lot of reviews this morning. Most of them look great, somebody put a lot of work into them. Yet when I was writing a book review I found that were combined in strange ways. I do believe that in some cases some improvement could happen. Some of the template title just need a little more tweaking.
My specific suggestions, and I'd like to get a lot of feedback here.
1. A discussion about if we should move to "all new reviews should be done with the extended template." Between yesterday and today I read both one of the worst and best reviews on the standard template that I think I've ever seen.
2. When voting on review, we should have the ability to vote "This review needs to be rewritten." Anonymously. It should serve as a flag to Eden that reviews which are poor quality and primarily a sexual account or contain unsafe information should be either rewritten or pulled from the site.
3. Either by product line or by category (Sensual game, bdsm, glass, insertion with or without vibration, restraint, cock rings, lingerie, books, media, etc.) the current templates are looked at by someone who does a lot of reviews in that particular area to ensure that the titles actually make sense. A separate thread could then be started to build some consensus on ideas.
For example. I've reviewed lots of books and cock rings, Scott A- butt plugs, Jimbo - mastubators, etc.
4. Have multiple sections in the extended template. For all required sections have a minimum of 100 words. For perhaps one key section in each "Content" in a book for example - have it longer. A separate section on "Vibration and Power" would any toy with power. Having that optional makes it appropriate for those that don't and a great way to say how much better the toy is if you've modified it or used it with something that did vibrate. (Adding a bullet for example.)
5. Some sections could be simple brief and actually cross most product lines. These could include "packaging," "material," "design," "Safety", "Storage and cleaning"
1. Eden Fantasys - Their primary goal is high quality, informative reviews. These should be effective to customers, help individuals make decisions about the purchase of a product, and may be used for decisions regarding inventory and stock. Having a consistent appearance for all reviews makes the site more user friendly and professional, and technically easy to maintain.
Eden does not actually want reviews "The neighbors heard me scream" which was recently published.
2. Advanced Reviewer - Primary goal is to write high quality reviews that match their individual writing styles and people want to read. In order to do so, they need a template that actually works. (I deliberately excluded a beginning reviewer because they may have all sorts of goals.)
3. Customer - They want the ability to read about a product and find the information that they are interested in. This can vary between a "new" user who may have never heard the concept that silicone lube should not be applied to silicone toys or an "advanced" user who is looking to purchase their 50th vibrator and just wants to make sure that this one is fabulous.
A good review should have the following (and the template should actually encourage that all relevant information is included)
- Basic information about the product including packing, care and cleaning, description, storage information, safety precautions.
- Vibration information as necessary
- Additional information about the unique factors of product. This might include a particular actress, specially designed shape, etc., the fact that it broke in 3 seconds.
- Quality
- Personal experience or comments.
- Additional information - such as comparisons, author information, other reviews, etc.
I know that there are a lot of different templates out there because Eden carries a lot of different types of products. I actually looked at a lot of reviews this morning. Most of them look great, somebody put a lot of work into them. Yet when I was writing a book review I found that were combined in strange ways. I do believe that in some cases some improvement could happen. Some of the template title just need a little more tweaking.
My specific suggestions, and I'd like to get a lot of feedback here.
1. A discussion about if we should move to "all new reviews should be done with the extended template." Between yesterday and today I read both one of the worst and best reviews on the standard template that I think I've ever seen.
2. When voting on review, we should have the ability to vote "This review needs to be rewritten." Anonymously. It should serve as a flag to Eden that reviews which are poor quality and primarily a sexual account or contain unsafe information should be either rewritten or pulled from the site.
3. Either by product line or by category (Sensual game, bdsm, glass, insertion with or without vibration, restraint, cock rings, lingerie, books, media, etc.) the current templates are looked at by someone who does a lot of reviews in that particular area to ensure that the titles actually make sense. A separate thread could then be started to build some consensus on ideas.
For example. I've reviewed lots of books and cock rings, Scott A- butt plugs, Jimbo - mastubators, etc.
4. Have multiple sections in the extended template. For all required sections have a minimum of 100 words. For perhaps one key section in each "Content" in a book for example - have it longer. A separate section on "Vibration and Power" would any toy with power. Having that optional makes it appropriate for those that don't and a great way to say how much better the toy is if you've modified it or used it with something that did vibrate. (Adding a bullet for example.)
5. Some sections could be simple brief and actually cross most product lines. These could include "packaging," "material," "design," "Safety", "Storage and cleaning"
