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Katrena — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 21:18:49 GMT

As a new writer, I wasn't quite sure how to deal with the additional "tags" for the product. I wasn't sure if those would appear in my review or not. I hadn't thought of putting in ways people might misspell the product or slang words or other words people might use to search for the product.

Maybe some sort of explanation (perhaps something to click for additional info) in the area would be helpful for new people like me. I like the way I could look at explanations about adding photos, etc.

I'm thinking back to some of my earlier reviews and see how many more people could probably read them if I had put in more tags. I'd love to be able to go in and edit and add tags after publishing, so that might be something you guys might want to consider giving writers the ability to do in the future.

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Jo — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 14:04:44 GMT

Well since my computer is really weird lately - no bugs I'm sure of that - but something's not right like my D drive is invisible - I'll skip looking at this for now! Jo

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PattyTherre — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 21:54:22 GMT

kevin said…
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Also, a feature that probably nobody has seen (since it's been intentionally buried!) is the Community Explorer. We launched a page called Viewpoints Labs a while back, but it's only found in the footer links. On this page you will see the Explorer, which is a flash based app that lets you navigate all the friendships within our community, starting at your profile (if you are logged in).

Cavaet: this is based on Flash technology, which is not our strong suit, so we don't guarantee that it is bug free or supported on all browsers and operating systems. Also due to memory constraints, if you have more than 150 friends/fans, they won't all be loaded, so you might notice some connections as missing. That's why it's relegated to the Labs section and not part of the mainstream site. By all means check it out and enjoy it if you are interested.

OMG! That is the coolest thing. I just played with it and am going back. I can see who is friends with my friends and all kinds of cool stuff!! Why hide it? It's amazing! And I jump around like I do in real life on the page. I encourage everyone to check out Viewpoint Labs as linked above. It's really cool!

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kevin — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 13:02:08 GMT

In regards to being able to sort your friends...it's great to hear this feedback and you I'm going to let slip, that we'll be working on a revamp of the profile page in the coming months. Being able to order or at least call out your top friends is on the plan.

Also, a feature that probably nobody has seen (since it's been intentionally buried!) is the Community Explorer. We launched a page called Viewpoints Labs a while back, but it's only found in the footer links. On this page you will see the Explorer, which is a flash based app that lets you navigate all the friendships within our community, starting at your profile (if you are logged in).

Cavaet: this is based on Flash technology, which is not our strong suit, so we don't guarantee that it is bug free or supported on all browsers and operating systems. Also due to memory constraints, if you have more than 150 friends/fans, they won't all be loaded, so you might notice some connections as missing. That's why it's relegated to the Labs section and not part of the mainstream site. By all means check it out and enjoy it if you are interested.

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lilsquibb — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 17:12:11 GMT

Jo said…
Hi all you techies behind the screen - now take this with a grain of salt from someone who has been doing 7 hour shifts at an Assisted Living Facility and only 1/2 here - though that will change...So the Recent Activity list is FABULOUS. I just found out it was here. It's more than amazing. My problem is people finding it. I knew where it was and had a hard time finding it on the community page so if the goal is for people to get to it then I'd make it easier to find. Just my 2 cents. Jo

I agree... it took me a while to find it after I knew we had it as well. The page is busy and that link gets lost even though it's in the middle of the screen.

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Jo — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 14:35:12 GMT

Hi all you techies behind the screen - now take this with a grain of salt from someone who has been doing 7 hour shifts at an Assisted Living Facility and only 1/2 here - though that will change...So the Recent Activity list is FABULOUS. I just found out it was here. It's more than amazing. My problem is people finding it. I knew where it was and had a hard time finding it on the community page so if the goal is for people to get to it then I'd make it easier to find. Just my 2 cents. Jo

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PattyTherre — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 05:21:57 GMT

CyndiA said…
ROF Patty! I never thought about that. It would be my luck that my bestest bud or relative would hit it when they had been un-friended for a few seconds and be mad, mad, mad at me.

LOL. Well, every time you remove and add someone, they get a new fan notice which seems odd when they KNOW they have been on your friends list for ages. But the only people I do that with know what the notice means and they do or did the same thing. I think my son still has me as #1 on his list but my sister and I gave up trying to keep each other on the top. It only takes a minute to remove and add a person but it's a hassle every time you add a new friend to go back and do that.

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CyndiA — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 21:52:43 GMT

ROF Patty! I never thought about that. It would be my luck that my bestest bud or relative would hit it when they had been un-friended for a few seconds and be mad, mad, mad at me.

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PattyTherre — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 20:12:39 GMT

Katrena said…
Yep--understood you 100%, Patty!
Got another idea to run by you. I know on the home page I can view friends and fans. I think the last one added is the first one seen. Is there a way to choose to order them differently (say by frequency of visiting their sites, or to choose to reverse the order by placing the first one added to the top)?
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When I was actively trying to keep my sister and son at the top of my list, I would just remove them from my friends list then add them again. They would end up as the top two people every time. Now, I am not as concerned with that but it does work. Just remove someone and readd them and they will jump to the top of your list where you can see what they are up to at a glance.
HTH!

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CyndiA — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 20:10:21 GMT

I don't know of any way to sort them, and when the list gets longer, it's hard to find folks. There is a click to see a photo collage. Sometimes I find people with that. If I don't see a photo I'm looking for I refresh and sometimes I see the person or their family and then click on the photo.

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Katrena — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 13:04:42 GMT

Yep--understood you 100%, Patty!

Got another idea to run by you. I know on the home page I can view friends and fans. I think the last one added is the first one seen. Is there a way to choose to order them differently (say by frequency of visiting their sites, or to choose to reverse the order by placing the first one added to the top)?

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PattyTherre — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 07:34:06 GMT

I like the idea of two colors of links - blue for adding a friend and red for removing a friend or something. I think I have taken people off my friends list inadvertently. I have a good number of friends and sometimes forget who is and isn't on my list. And I am soooooooooo sleep deprived too that I can see myself removing someone but meaning to add them and they were already added but I forgot.

If you understood that paragraph, you too are sleep deprived! lol.

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Katrena — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 19:15:17 GMT

As a new writer here, I've found this site pretty user friendly and full of useful information--thanks! Here are a couple of my suggestions:

--Have a different color for adding/removing a friend from your list. "I am sleep deprived" is a pretty accurate description of me and I may have carelessly removed someone from my friends list when I thought I was adding them. If I removed any of you from my list inadvertantly, please send me a message and I'll be glad to add you back!

I enjoy searching pictures from other VP writers. I know you have writer's pictures to scroll through under community. but have you considered having two scroll bars of pictures on the home page (one labeled as "products" and one labeled as "writers")?

Also, is there a way to view the top 10, 100, 500 reviews? If so, I guess I need a tutoring session!

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vivasuzi — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:03:30 GMT

Hi Ron, to Meredith's point, I use dozen's of sites with the linkage thing and they do the same thing with the leading http://. For most people, it works as a good hint for what they have to put in there so they don't just open it and write "viewpoints.com/..." and that's it.

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kid-kansas — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 01:53:41 GMT

I have never seen one like ours before but one that had the "http://" as an example below it. I do see what your saying though and since I have been doing it for better than 20 years I do know what is needed and a novice might not understand it..

Ron

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LisaCarey — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 04:45:47 GMT

Maybe a slideshow feature, especially for those like Steve who have wonderful photos and travel reviews. . . but any of us may be able to use it and connect it to the review. Why not have slide show of video of how we used a product if we want to include it.

Functions to find people according to location, but hey, I have mentioned this before.

I think the reason there is no way to do "links" to sites within the review itself is because the site should not become a link pimping site for whatever we are reviewing. the side likes (google ads etc) are helpful and at least on topic if not EXACTLY what we review. It would be nice if it could be configured to pick up the topic or brand name mentioned.

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Meredith — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 18:15:08 GMT

kid-kansas said…
Okay I looked and didn't see this so here is my suggestion on a tweak I feel would be very helpful.

When you link to another page in your review you get the popup where you enter the link. The problem is repetition.......The link space contains http:// already......but when you copy a url you are also copying that http:// as part of the address you are linking. Wouldn't it be better to leave that popup line blank?? I think this may be causing problems for some people, especially someone that is not computer savvy. I just erase it before I paste my link but for those that don't know better they are pasting a link which look like this:

http://http://someplace.com/review87658654 (Which will never work)

Instead of having one that is correct like this:

http://someplace.com/review87658654 (which would work)

I am not nit picking I just feel it may be giving some people a hard time and should be a very easy fix.

Thanks,
Ron

Hey Ron,

The upload a link box is actually a standard, formatted tool used across the web for this type of action. The pre-seeded http:// can be an annoyance to the web savvy but helpful to the less knowledgeable user because it displays what URL information is needed to complete the link. We'd like to leave as is for now.

Thanks for sharing your idea. We're always glad to hear what you guys like and don't like as we develop and revise features.

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kid-kansas — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:56:09 GMT

bumping this up because it got lost.....read my last post and let me know if my idea is feasible and if it could be a good fix...

Ron

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kid-kansas — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:46:57 GMT

Okay I looked and didn't see this so here is my suggestion on a tweak I feel would be very helpful.

When you link to another page in your review you get the popup where you enter the link. The problem is repetition.......The link space contains http:// already......but when you copy a url you are also copying that http:// as part of the address you are linking. Wouldn't it be better to leave that popup line blank?? I think this may be causing problems for some people, especially someone that is not computer savvy. I just erase it before I paste my link but for those that don't know better they are pasting a link which look like this:

http://http://someplace.com/review87658654 (Which will never work)

Instead of having one that is correct like this:

http://someplace.com/review87658654 (which would work)

I am not nit picking I just feel it may be giving some people a hard time and should be a very easy fix.

Thanks,
Ron

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vivasuzi — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 16:19:06 GMT

Here's an idea for those of us with Many I Am tags. It would be cool if we could categorize our own I Am tags so that, for example, I could put anything that has to do with Movies into my "movies" I Am category. This would just make it easier to find them.

Or, if when writing a review, it would be nice if every tag you ever used in that category would show up in a list. A lot of times I'm reviewing a movie, for example, but not all my movie tags show up and a lot of the ones that do have nothing to do with movies. I go to my profile to see my list and pick the tags I want, but I wish that all the I Am tags that I ever used in "movies" would show on the review page (either as checkboxes or a list that pops up, whatever).

I try my best to reuse tags so that I don't have a million, but sometimes I forget if I already made one and end up making another that is really the same thing but phrased different.

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Meredith — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 18:31:03 GMT

JazzSinger said…
I get an e-mail every time someone leaves me a comment, but I also get an e-mail if I leave a comment within a review as a response to someone else's comment. I don't need to get an e-mail saying that I left a comment. Can something be done about this?

Hey there! So you get an email each time you post and receive a comment? That's not how we've set things up. Could you possibly forward me an example of an email notification you've received from us alerting you that YOU posting a comment to someone else? My email is meredith@viewpoints.com. Thanks so much.

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Meredith — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 18:28:34 GMT

PattyTherre said…
I am still just hoping to leave private messages. I came across a review where the person misspelled the name of the product throughout the review. It made me crazy but I didn't want to say anything publicly. If I could have sent a private message saying that the product spelling was wrong, I think the person would have appreciated it and not have felt criticized or embarrassed as s/he would have if I made a comment publicly.

Private messaging is absolutely on our list of features we'd like to add. No estimated date yet but it's coming.

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Meredith — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 18:25:19 GMT

joyjoy said…
I would like to be able to edit my title without having to ask the VP staff. Sometimes I realize I made a mistake afterwards.

I know several of you have requested the capability to edit your own product titles without having to email Jolie or I for corrections. We all know mistakes happen, no one is perfect. We have no problem making title corrections for you at all! At this time, because the product title effects so many factors (e.g. database of products on both Viewpoints and Shopping.com, searchability, etc.) we will not make them editable. Here's a good example of a reason why we shouldn't... Say you write a review for the Apple 4GB iPod. Then another person reviews that same iPod attaching it to your review but then they realize their iPod actually has 6GB. They go in to edit the product name to say 6GB instead of 4GB. Now, the review title is deceiving because one review is for the 4GB and the other for a 6GB iPod. Allowing product titles to be editable could open a whole new can of worms by creating more room for error.

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joyjoy — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 23:09:22 GMT

I would like to be able to edit my title without having to ask the VP staff. Sometimes I realize I made a mistake afterwards.

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RudiXeno — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 02:27:58 GMT

PattyTherre said…
I am still just hoping to leave private messages. I came across a review where the person misspelled the name of the product throughout the review. It made me crazy but I didn't want to say anything publicly. If I could have sent a private message saying that the product spelling was wrong, I think the person would have appreciated it and not have felt criticized or embarrassed as s/he would have if I made a comment publicly.

I agree totally. I've ased for this feature before. There are many situations where a private message feature would be very helpful.

Rudi

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RudiXeno — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 02:25:30 GMT

PattyTherre said…
I am still just hoping to leave private messages. I came across a review where the person misspelled the name of the product throughout the review. It made me crazy but I didn't want to say anything publicly. If I could have sent a private message saying that the product spelling was wrong, I think the person would have appreciated it and not have felt criticized or embarrassed as s/he would have if I made a comment publicly.

I agree 100%. I've asked for this before. It would be very helpful in so many situations to be able to send a private message.

Rudi

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JazzSinger — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 22:54:27 GMT

I get an e-mail every time someone leaves me a comment, but I also get an e-mail if I leave a comment within a review as a response to someone else's comment. I don't need to get an e-mail saying that I left a comment. Can something be done about this?

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steve9631 — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 21:08:40 GMT

That would be cool, and would make perfect sense! I imagine the reason why that link isn't there, is there is a financial issue for inserting a link that has yet to be obtained from the linkor. Just my guess.

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JovialCougar — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 00:21:01 GMT

I wish you could click through to the specific website on travel reviews. For exmaple, I was reading a Southwest Airlines review and there was no click-through to their website. On the right-hand column was a Google ad with travel-related websites, but not Southwest's own site.

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steve9631 — Fri, 30 May 2008 22:40:55 GMT

PattyTherre said…
I am still just hoping to leave private messages. I came across a review where the person misspelled the name of the product throughout the review. It made me crazy but I didn't want to say anything publicly. If I could have sent a private message saying that the product spelling was wrong, I think the person would have appreciated it and not have felt criticized or embarrassed as s/he would have if I made a comment publicly.

Ditto

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PattyTherre — Fri, 30 May 2008 22:16:08 GMT

I am still just hoping to leave private messages. I came across a review where the person misspelled the name of the product throughout the review. It made me crazy but I didn't want to say anything publicly. If I could have sent a private message saying that the product spelling was wrong, I think the person would have appreciated it and not have felt criticized or embarrassed as s/he would have if I made a comment publicly.

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steve9631 — Fri, 30 May 2008 21:06:42 GMT

I have several suggestions:

1.) The ability to add video footage when appropriate. Not a link, but footage. I don't do video now, but if a find something that I like when I'm traveling, doing a car show, etc., it might be a nice feature.

2.) Altering the photo addition aspect to the reviews would be helpful. Currently, the limit of 3 pictures at times seem to be quite limiting, not always, but sometimes. Since the ability to add more pictures is possible within saving and revisiting of review efforts, why not streamline the process and just make it simpler?

3.) The ability to alter the title header for additional information or spelling corrections would be quite helpful, and alleviate the necessity of writing an email to the office.

Just my thoughts, but I'd be quite interested to hear your views.

Steve

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Jo — Wed, 21 May 2008 13:22:00 GMT

Yes, it makes perfect sense and to make a point I already made the fact I found this post from you was just because I'm going through each block! Jo

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GeorgeChabot — Tue, 20 May 2008 18:50:28 GMT

I thought the stats would be cooler if they showed next to each review title on my profile page. They count up so slowly I guess nobody stops by but when I see I've gotten one (by the total GP count) I wish I could find which one was rated.

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LisaCarey — Mon, 12 May 2008 16:12:22 GMT

Actually Jo, that's is one of two reasons I am posting today, I was out of town and came back to try to catch up and it is taking so much time to go through the list of reviews and my comments. My main concern right now is greeting people and trying to then keep track of them to revisit .. . as I run through my quotes and try to go back to see if they have posted anything new then I return to my main comments page and have to page through it to get back to the page of comments that I was working on. (Does any of this make sense) For example, I am on page 5 of my comments, I am going back to check on a new greeting I made, see how they are doing and such and then want to go back to my comments. I go back to page 1 and then have to go over to page 5 then start the process all over again. ...

Maybe a comments from freinds and fans ... section could be helpful or a way to simply return to the page that I was on either would be incredibly helpful to those that welcome and encourage new members. It would also help me as I try to make more friends and fans... just a thought.

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Jo — Sun, 11 May 2008 13:48:45 GMT

I feel as if I have a list of ways to change the site and it's not meant to be a list of complaints just stuff I find along the way.

Am I the only one who doesn't feel that the list we get of "reviews by friends" is as easy to click and read as other sites. I can't put my finger on it. I'm not sure if it's the layout or what but those of you who write elsewhere and get notifications do you feel as if there is a difference in user friendliness? Jo

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Jo — Sun, 11 May 2008 13:46:23 GMT

PattyTherre said…
Must be many people write comments before voting because I often get six comments and five votes and I go crazy wondering why someone would comment (nicely) and yet not give me a GP, er, HV. I suppose that could be the reason. I always vote first then comment. If I forget if I voted or not, I do it again for good measure knowing that my vote only counts once.

I'll have to start doing that but I know just now I forget to click helpful. I'll try the reverse. Of course that would solve my problem! Jo

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PattyTherre — Sat, 10 May 2008 18:05:48 GMT

Must be many people write comments before voting because I often get six comments and five votes and I go crazy wondering why someone would comment (nicely) and yet not give me a GP, er, HV. I suppose that could be the reason. I always vote first then comment. If I forget if I voted or not, I do it again for good measure knowing that my vote only counts once.

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Jo — Sat, 10 May 2008 14:16:20 GMT

Ok, another comment related to the yes and no. I usually leave a comment if I'm going to before I vote. It's just what I got in the habit of doing. Then after I hit send the page doesn't bring my back to the line that says "was this helpful"? If it did I think we'd be more likely to vote. Just a thought. Jo

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Jolie — Sat, 10 May 2008 03:58:23 GMT

bkovacs said…
Some thoughts about the new Yes/No voting on reviews...

Yes and no... I like the idea of being able to give a thumbs up or down to a review. However, the two buttons are too close together and easy to get wrong. And once you click on one, you can never change your selection. What if the reviewer edits the review and fixes it? I can't change my vote!

I'm respectfully suggesting two things:

1. Make "Yes" and "No" more distinctive and separate them a little.
2. Let the opposite selection stay available after I vote, just in case I change my mind.

Thanks for the changes and improvements so far... I really appreciate the effort.

--Bob

Here's a little secret. If you accidentally vote NO, then you can go back in and mark YES and we will fix it. (the inverse works too!) However, if you vote NO, NO or YES, YES it will only count as once.

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kevin — Fri, 09 May 2008 13:14:42 GMT

bkovacs said…
Edit: I just DID use the "Quote" feature on this existing post, which was written before the quote function existed. Kewl

Wow. That just boggles my mind. :) Glad to know it didn't blow up on you though!

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kevin — Fri, 09 May 2008 03:58:44 GMT

kevin said…
@Bob/Patty: quoting is coming to the forums soon!

Quoting is now live. Enjoy!

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kevin — Tue, 06 May 2008 17:53:05 GMT

@Bob/Patty: quoting is coming to the forums soon!

@Jo: email alerts to forum replies is on the list, but I don't have an ETA on how soon.

There's lots of other great feedback here from everyone. One thing that might help us is if you start separate topics per feature idea or bug report. That way we can track each idea without them all being jumbled in a single topic and maybe missing something.

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AmyA — Tue, 06 May 2008 16:34:27 GMT

I agree with Jo. I feel bad having to bug the VP peeps is I messed something up I can fix. I think I have the right product and look and look again after I hit publish and OH darn it...wrong color, wrong type.

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Jo — Mon, 05 May 2008 13:56:08 GMT

Patty, I would like to be able to edit the picture's caption without deleting the picture also so I'm waving my hand on that one.

I don't see my pictures when I do my review. I've had that happen to me before and it drives me nuts.

Also please please let us be able to edit the title somehow. I know we can just e-mail Jolie and maybe there's a risk that a new product will be added and then some weird product name will be substituted but it sure would be nice.

Ok any chance we can be alerted to replies here?? Jo typing as the packers move boxes around me!

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bkovacs — Mon, 05 May 2008 12:56:08 GMT

PattyTherre said...

But the reason I came here was to suggest that these boards have a QUOTE feature so we can follow conversations better. I did mention this to Jolie but wondered what you guys thought. I would like to quote people and respond to them and not confuse everyone. I think we all know how to use the quote feature and it would enhance the discussions.

Thoughts?

I would definitely like a quote feature here in the discussion boards. In fact, I would have used it now to quote Patty's post!

Edit: I just DID use the "Quote" feature on this existing post, which was written before the quote function existed. Kewl!

--Bob

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PattyTherre — Sun, 04 May 2008 03:05:30 GMT

Bob said: "1. Make "Yes" and "No" more distinctive and separate them a little.
2. Let the opposite selection stay available after I vote, just in case I change my mind.

I didn't know we couldn't change our vote once we locked it in. We could always go with green yes and yellow or red no so people don't get mixed up. I do think we should be able to change a review's rating if someone comes along and edits it for the better - or worse.

But the reason I came here was to suggest that these boards have a QUOTE feature so we can follow conversations better. I did mention this to Jolie but wondered what you guys thought. I would like to quote people and respond to them and not confuse everyone. I think we all know how to use the quote feature and it would enhance the discussions.

Thoughts?

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CyndiA — Fri, 02 May 2008 04:06:25 GMT

There was some indication before if we'd press "good point" that's now "helpful." I'm not sure what's changed. I can't tell now. I may read a review again and then not see that I gave a thumbs up/good point, so I press again. It does not seem to hurt anything though. It just does not add a number, so then I know I did that already. Is this maybe the hamster trick to see how many of us will press it over and over? Count me guilty (-: I just keep reading those frozen pizza reviews.

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bkovacs — Fri, 02 May 2008 01:56:43 GMT

Some thoughts about the new Yes/No voting on reviews...

Yes and no... I like the idea of being able to give a thumbs up or down to a review. However, the two buttons are too close together and easy to get wrong. And once you click on one, you can never change your selection. What if the reviewer edits the review and fixes it? I can't change my vote!

I'm respectfully suggesting two things:

1. Make "Yes" and "No" more distinctive and separate them a little.
2. Let the opposite selection stay available after I vote, just in case I change my mind.

Thanks for the changes and improvements so far... I really appreciate the effort.

--Bob

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CyndiA — Fri, 02 May 2008 00:36:46 GMT

Someone sent me a note here that they looked for something under "home cook" or something like that. They found what they were looking for in my collection. I use a lot of "I am" tags. I am a lot of stuff. If you want my biker stuff, then click biker tag. If you want my "mom to boys" stuff, click that. Very different. Same with the "eating healthy." If tags are used to match right to products, they do help sort collections.

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vivasuzi — Thu, 01 May 2008 20:20:29 GMT

I get nit picky too and even if a suggested tag is very close to what I want, I won't choose it if it doesn't make sense

"I am movie watcher"

Instead I add/change my own. I made it a habit to open the I Am tags on my profile whenever I am writing a new review so that I can use the same ones over and over. Maybe there are some I can merge so it's not all over the place but I'll deal with that later :)

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PattyTherre — Thu, 01 May 2008 17:56:11 GMT

Speaking of I AM tags, every time I edit a review, at least one of the tags is dropped. Then I have to remember what I used and retick it again. Sometimes two are gone and nowhere to be found. It happens every time I edit a review. I did mention this before. It's not a huge deal but it can be time consuming when I just want to edit a review for a typo to go through the I AM tags and find the ones I used before.

Also ... Is there any way we can edit pic subtitles without deleting the pic? Again, a small thing but, if I make a little typo, I have to delete the photo and reupload it then recaption it. It would be great to just be able to edit the caption. And Bob, I agree, people really should take a minute to write a little caption rather than leave the photo name up. It takes a second and make a difference!

Patty - who will never use am I AM tag that doesn't fit the I AM structure of the sentence.

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bkovacs — Thu, 01 May 2008 17:30:39 GMT

I don't really like the "I am" tags but always try to make them grammatical. I used to think a lot about them but now have a handful that are mostly used over and over. In a grammatical way, of course.

--Bob

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RudiXeno — Thu, 01 May 2008 15:29:43 GMT

Jo,

Funny you bring up the issue with the "I am tags", but sometimes I have the same problem. I don't know if anyone cares about it being grammatically correct or not, but I find that I care. For some reason I get nit-picky there. Not with anyone else, just myself.

Rudi

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Jo — Thu, 01 May 2008 14:39:33 GMT

I have a couple of thoughts. Since some of us are doing comparison reviews, there should be a place where we don't have to rate the review. It's weird to review two things - one you love and one you don't - and have to rate it.

I still think the tags could be cleaner. Perhaps we can clean them up on our own i.e. the duplicate or almost duplicate tags without erasing them from our previous reviews (maybe this is impossible to do!)

Also in the name of the English language I am "prefer organic food" doesn't read correctly. Is that ok? Should we strike to make it correct i.e. I am "a lover of organic food" or is this petty? Love the board. Will close the Yahoo one. Jo

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vytas — Thu, 01 May 2008 14:13:10 GMT

Since this site was built by people and not deities, there's always room for improvement. Share your ideas for making Viewpoints better - be it some tweak to what's already here or a completely new feature. We're listening!