Review writing 101
Don't know if this falls under feedback or ideas, but was thinking that the quality of reviews posted in the the "source reviews" section is suffering from two inherent attributes of the average roid head.
The first is that a person who buys illegal substances off the internet is by nature not a rule follower. So asking this person to read and adhere to the review posting rules may be a bit of a losing cause. A section titled "rules" is probably the last dark corner of eroids that will ever inhabit their computer screen.
The second is, and I'll try to say this as diplomatically as possible, that Joe JuiceHead has probably spent more time in the weight room than in his college critical writing class. Writing class is where most of us learn the difference between stating objective fact and subjective opinion. In Joe JuiceHead's mental world writing something under source reviews like "These guys scammed me. They suck ass and will steal all your money" probably equates to what he considers a great review. He's probably really proud of the fact that he a)created two whole sentences, and b)told everyone how angry he is. He does not understand that we all want to hear the facts concerning why they suck and how they scammed since we don't know Joe personally. The point here is that there is a huge disconnect between what we want to see posted in source reviews (a description of the time-line, facts and results of a source transaction), and what Joe JuiceHead is capable of writing/communicating given his limited schooling and hormone induced psychosis.
So the question is how can we raise the quality of source reviews by making it easier for eroids members to state objective facts with a minimum of subjective opinion/emotion/bitching/griping/high-fiving/etc in a way that doesn't smack of rule-enforcement, or require attending college writing class.
One idea might be to have a section on "writing source reviews" that covers a list of questions to answer about a source transaction such: What items where ordered? On what date? How quickly were questions answered? How long did shipping take? Problems with stock? Quality of gear? Results? Etc? Etc? along with example answers.
Another might be to post good example reviews that earn lots of positive rep points side by side with the equivalent bad examples that would get down voted, and explain the difference.
I'm really just getting tired of having to scan pages on a source to glean a few basic facts.
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It's funny because its true. I was thinking the same thing along the lines of the Q and A. Or there are the guys who continually state "the site says not published heeeeeelp" I personally ignore it and feel that if they are not smart enough to figure this website out(eroids is very user friendly) they may not be smart enough to be using steroids but someone is nice enough to tell them how to access it. Anyway...I agree with the Q n A. Direct and to the point, with all bases covered.
While I totally agree with you, ......
I would think the "Writing Source Review " section would be visited less than the "Eroids Rule Corner", simply based on the idea, that when your User Account has be put on the hook for 72 hours, you might be tempted to try and figure out why so as not to repeat the banning process.