Discussing a Review
Several members have asked us for a way to communicate with those who review their work. In order to better meet your needs Steve added a new feature to accommodate this last week. We intentionally made it a little hard to find because we want just a few people to try it out before we added prominent links to this feature on the My Account page. If you would like to be one of our testers please follow the steps outlined below and let us know what you think about this feature by commenting on this post.
- Click on the “view icon” for either the “Latest Reviews I’ve Received” or “Latest Reviews I’ve Given” on the My Account page. See screen shot 1.
- If you chose the “view icon” from the “Latest Reviews I’ve Received” section, please take a moment to rate the review if you have not already done so. See screen shot 2. We use review ratings as part of our peer matching criteria, if you tend to give good reviews we will match you up with people who also tend to give good reviews and vice versa. By the end of next month review rating will be a much more significant factor in determining your peers for the assigned reviews.
- Screen Shots 3, 4 and 5 show the two users interacting by posting messages to each other. Screen shot 5 also shows that you can choose to “redo a review.” This is primarily for new members who give low quality reviews on their first attempt. We wanted to provide a way for them to repent of this misdeed.
The “discuss this review” feature will become more prominent and easy to use over the next few weeks. Please let us know if you like it and how we can improve it. If you have not had a chance to do so please feel free join Review Fuse, after all it’s free.
Jacob
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Tags: Discus a review, Rate a Review
December 15th, 2008 at 11:16 pm
I have had the opportunity to experiment with this new discussion board, and I am quite pleased with it. With a few simple added words to my review an understanding was reached. Thank you.
December 22nd, 2008 at 1:14 pm
Being able to discuss the review is a great addition. Sometimes the reviewer doesn’t really know what the author is going for so it makes it difficult to review. A simple explaination could open up this idea. If we were catergorized by our preferences of reading and writing genre’s it would be easier to understand. It makes it difficult when we have to read and review genre’s we know nothing about. The reverse is also true.