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Organizing reviews


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posted on May 08, 2009 at 03:03PM
 

Forgive me if I'm the last to notice this, but just today I realized that Viewpoints organizes reviews by favoring reviews that have the most text. For example, I just looked up reviews on an electronic item and there were 13 reviews. None had any "Helpful" votes, so they were all equal in that regard. Yet the review shown at the top of the stack had the most text and was the best review, as far as I'm concerned. As I went down the list of 13, there was progressively less and less text in the body of the review, until the final "review" was actually a rating with only a headline and no actual text for the review.

I left a couple of Helpful votes, so that may stir things differently. However, I'm very much in favor of Viewpoints organizing the reviews in this way. It makes a lot of sense to favor reviews that have the most text. Of course, this presumes these reviews are still readable and not text overload.

Thanks, Viewpoints!

--Bob


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