It kinda is to me. I want my reviews to be the very best I can do. To me, if 99% of people vote extremely useful and a couple vote useful, that's a fail because I haven't been able to acheive my very best.
It's kinda different if most vote useful. Then I definitely know I need to do some serious improving.

I'm sure other scorpios will know exactly what I mean. I like to achieve my best in everything I feel passionate about. Anything less is failure and I can't stand for failing in myself.

But there's nothing I can do about it so as much as it annoys me when I first see it, I end up brushing it off. Ya can't change it - it's just the way it is.

BUT - there are two ID's who seem to vote and follow each other around the site. I don't know if it's a couple or someone has just got two accounts. Either way, it looks suspicious to me.


PS - I don't bother to contact the person. If they didn't want to give feedback in the comments part then they more than likely wouldn't bother to tell me in a message either. If they wanted me to know, they would have stated it.
If I read a review that doesn't make a useful vote, then I'll usually leave a comment (unless someone else has already said it) letting them know what they missed or could have perhaps added - cause I genuinely want them to be able to improve. less

If anyone received a lower vote than you hoped from me, its likely because there wasn't enough discussion of how the toy worked for you in actual use. Seems like I've read quite a number of reviews lately that completely or almost completely skipped that critical section.

I guess this is off topic. That's not actually down voting for spite or personal gain. less

Wow, I guess a vote all depends on the person voting. Personally, I tend to vote like this

-not useful at all: virtually no information, information grossly incorrect

-worth reading, but not useful: gave reviewers opinion, but lacked general info, or vise versa

-somewhat useful: decent review that didn't answer all my questions

-useful: good review that answered all my questions

-extremely useful: great review that answer all my questions, plus some I didn't even think to ask less

I see the rating system as this







extremely useful: Something above and beyond just "good"







useful: a good job







somewhat useful: an adequate job, but might need some improvement and additional information



worth reading, but not useful: needs to go back, read other people's reviews and learn more about the reviewing process



not useful at all: not a good review in any way



As a rule, honest ratings don't bother me at all. Sometimes one of my reviews simply may not hit a regular reader as "extremely useful" if it's a regular, and I know they are honest and do good reviews themselves, it doesn't bother me at all, because they KNOW what goes into a review.



It bugs me when people who write NO reviews themselves and never participate in the forums go around and rate other's reviews, and most of these people usually give pretty low ratings. There are a few who seem to do nothing but hang around and rate some people very low (usually the reviewers who have high ratings) and seem to rate seemingly inadequate reviews as "extremely useful." Are these people with two or more identities? Those who are not doing a good job and trying to bring down good reviews to raise their own rating? We've seen this before.



Some of these people also seem to vote others into the "Advanced Reviewer" category. Really THINK about the quality of the reviews before you vote someone to be Advanced The reviewers are the face of Eden, and poor reviews don't help the site nor anyone else.



I know we need to allow shoppers to rate reviews, but they may not realize what goes into to REALLY good review. Two systems? One for the casual shopper, and those who have not submitted reviews and do not participate in the forums, and one for regulars who KNOW how much work goes into a good review? That might be too much for the site to have to deal with. I don't know.



What if only members or advanced reviewers could vote? It might discourage people who are here to shop. But, those not familiar with the site or the intricacies of sex toys and their materials and functions seem to be more harsh in their rating. less

I JUST NOTICED THIS. My ranking went down just today. I assumed it was because I haven't reviewed much lately (school and whatnot), but after looking at my reviews, I noticed a lot of downvotes that weren't there before. Honestly I'm a little offended. I mean, I understand my poor ratings on my first two reviews as I was new and all that, but I worked hard to improve my review quality. I don't appreciate people downvoting out of laziness/spite/whateve r. >.< less

IMHO, I feel like I may have been down voted once, but then again, I was a n00b at the time.

Oh, another thing that is slightly related that really bugs me is when people clearly have not read the reviews, but they rate it anyway. I know that sometimes people do it, especially when they're new or Point Farming, but it's REALLY NOTICEABLE for off-site reviews, when there are less page hits than there are ratings...

Fishy. Too bad there's no practical way of preventing that. :/ less

When you feel you have been down voted, what do you do or not do and why? Are you afraid to do certain things? e.g. talk to the person and ask?

P.S. I want everyone to know that you can ALWAYS message me if you feel I did the above (for any reason!). I know I have a real reason for every vote and I would be more than happy to let you know why I voted why I did! That is how we get better! I also welcome comments on my reviews as well. We can never be perfect and can all improve. less

When you feel you have been down voted, what do you do or not do and why? Are you afraid to do certain things? e.g. talk to the person and ask?

P.S. I want everyone to know that you can ALWAYS message me if you feel I did the above (for any reason!). I know I have a real reason for every vote and I would be more than happy to let you know why I voted why I did! That is how we get better! I also welcome comments on my reviews as well. We can never be perfect and can all improve. less

I have found the same.
One of my best reviews so far got all extremely useful from all the regular users here and 4 people who had done nothing (at that stage) came along and voted just useful.

That really annoys me cause they haven't done anything on the site and yet they have the audacity to down vote when everyone else votes the highest.
To me, it appears as though they are petty or jealous! less

When you feel you have been down voted, what do you do or not do and why? Are you afraid to do certain things? e.g. talk to the person and ask?

P.S. I want everyone to know that you can ALWAYS message me if you feel I did the above (for any reason!). I know I have a real reason for every vote and I would be more than happy to let you know why I voted why I did! That is how we get better! I also welcome comments on my reviews as well. We can never be perfect and can all improve. less