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In addition to leaving a comment, you can now rate selected posts anonymously. If you see a Whaddaya Think box at the bottom of an entry you can use it to indicate how useful (or awful) you found a particular post to be. As the system is new, it will take a while for patterns to emerge. In the right hand column just below the "recent comments" section is a list of rated comments with more than three votes.
Now, I really do want to know which kinds of posts are of most interest, but if people start play the Amazon Reviewer Game with the ratings, then I'll just have to give up on the whole idea.
Amazon Reviewer Game: In theory, the reviews are meant to be there so potential readers can decide if the book is something they might like. Person A reads the book and posts a review. Five stars, high praise. Person B comes along. She's read the book too and hated it, but she's too lazy to write her own review. Instead, she decides to review the other reviews. She disagrees with the reader who liked the book, so in response to the question "was this review helpful?" she clicks NO. Comes back twenty times to do it again, just to make her point.
Really, Amazon should just give up and either take away the "Was this review helpful?" bit or add another one: "Did you agree with this review?"
Gosh, I had no idea I was so irritated by that flaw in the Amazon system, but there you see it: ire. I'm going to leave it to make the point that you should only vote once on a given post, okay? Unless you like the idea of me being cranky, which you might.
October 20, 2005 08:47 AM
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