Hedir Review : Categorization of reviews

bret · Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 9:58 am Post subject: Categorization of reviews

People review a site for various aspects like,

marketing,
programming,
user point of view,
business practice.

I am confused as in how do I categorize the reviews.
Please help.

Bret

masteri5 · Joined: 26 Sep 2006 Posts: 283 10546 Hedir Points

I am not 100% certain I understand the exact nature of your question. If you are going to include each of these items on every review how hard would it be to assign a numerical value to each. In other words, lets say a site being reviewed has great marketing techniques. The reviewer would assign it a value for that aspect...like 4 on a scale of 1 to 4. Then the programming aspect would be reviewed and a value assigned for that...such as 3. Then user point of view would be considered...in this case lets say the site gets a 4. Now business practice is valued...say a 3.

If you did it this way you would then average all the reviews given, for each of the 4 aspects you mention and the scores could be averaged. It would have nothing to do with being recommended or not recommended, simply a way for the submitter to get a feel for his site's "value" based on each of these categories.

If this is what you are asking perhaps you could make a model and see if it works. If I am off base disregard.

bret · Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 10:26 am Post subject:

No, what I meant was to categorize a review, let me take an example.

"Your site had html validation problems" has no real value for normal users, so it should be kept under webmaster(or some other) category.

I expect more business and user oriented reviews under hedir after the release of "one page review" system. May be I am confused. Let me rephrase my requirement.

If I visit a page hedir.com/review/domain_com, by default I should get the user and business releated reviews only (that is useful for a casual visitor to the site domain.com). Only when someone clicks on webmaster should get the reviews related to webmasters.

May be we can ask a question after every review,

Is this comment useful for website visitors?

I think I am really confused but I also know that we really need it.

masteri5 · Joined: 26 Sep 2006 Posts: 283 10546 Hedir Points

I think I get it. What you would like to do is have the site review, for lack of a better term, broken into 2 parts. One dealing with its useability and function for viewers, the other strictly for the webmaster issues such as programming, html errors, etc.? If I am on the right track perhaps would you should consider is having "radio buttons" on each review, one marked with an identifier for webmasters, such as "Technical" and the other labeled to identify the ease of use for viewers.
If you did this, or some variation of, it would help in a couple of ways...
one, people like me who are not very tech-saavy would click on the user type button and offer a review, the tech types could click on the webmaster button and offer their views of any issues from that point of view. The submitter would then be able to see how their site "stacks up" from both points of view and consider making the necessary corrections, additions, deletions, etc.

Are we getting closer or am I still not getting your questions?

AlphaWebDesigns · Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 7:52 pm Post subject:

If I understand your meaning, I disagree with separating types of review comments.

I think there is value in a visitor seeing some of the more technical issues a site may have. It's true many site owners pay a webmaster to do the work for them, but they should be able to see technical comments anyway. If you set it aside under a different button, then fewer people will have exposure to the idea that "html validation" is relevant.

I didn't know it was relevant until someone reviewed my first site. Now I really know! I'm not the one to make those updates to my site, but now I know what to request of my programmers.

There may be value in visually separating the information, but I would not create a 4-level complexity and make the user click to see each type of review. I'd leave them all out in one page, perhaps just organizing comments into 2 or 3 main types.

bret · Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 1:25 pm Post subject:

What google does?
Shows you the sites based on an automated logic.

What Hedir will do?
Ranking based on Community Rank (did I disclose the future plan) with proper reviews and community spam controllers. Community will create a destroy things.

IMO as a user to a site I am hardly concerned about technical issues. I am more concerned about the business ethics.