My Opinion of Epinions.com
After I finished "bs"ing my way through my first article, I proceeded to write another one on a CD I had purchased. I figured it would be easier to write articles on things I actually liked, because I could find more things to say about the item than I could writing a bad review. For this particular album, there were no other reviews. I figured this would be my chance to write a good review, so other potential buyers would see it and want to buy it as well.
I wrote everything about an album you can, about the vocals, the music its self, the band as a whole. Their unique sound, unique lyrics, so many things I simply cant write about here without rewriting my entire review. After leaving the website, surfing around a bit more and then going to bed. I woke to find that I had received a new email from Epinions.com. It was a comment for my review on my album! It was rude, it was - well not something I expected to get from Epinions! At first I thought it was another member, just another rude person on the website.
When I realized that it was an "advisor", I was infuriated! I went to my review, because apparently my review of something as simple as an album can be considered "not helpful". Eight advisors went to my review and said it was "not helpful"! Buying an album isn't up to the people that already bought it, its in the hands of the potential buyers. The reason why you buy an album is simply because you like the sound of the music. A lot of websites allow you to sample their music and most new albums with have their songs on the radio.
I am not sure why they felt the need to literally gang up on me, but it was very irritating! The comment I had received was worded poorly and after they insulted me they proceeded to welcome me to Epinions.com! After receiving this message, I deleted my account. If a simple review for an album can be so terrible that they tell me to either delete it or stop writing like all of the other people, then what would come if I had written one about a computer?
I think if you want to write a review of any kind or even just write an article, I strongly suggest you stay right here at home on Associated Content!
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I actually reviewed the cd. I owned it and stayed on topic the whole time, I never once went off topic and never used slang or anything else. it was informative, well written, and to the point!
I'm not really sure why anyone catches unwarranted flak on epinions. I joined in 2003, disappeared for a few years and sporadically post now. I have NEVER received a spiteful message or rating, only several offering advice and support.
My question to the OP, did you actually review the album or did you go off on a tangent? Epinions is fairly strict about staying on topic, at least for the most part.
Hi I wanted to leave you a comment since this was a great article, but I also agree with some of your commenters about the advisors writing crap about things being OFF TOPIC or NOT HELPFUL. I seriously believe some of them intentially go to people's reviews and leave these types of comments or evaluations. Like you said you're giving your honest opinion and thank god for the block feature to stop some of them from leaving this kind of mess on your evaluations. I think some of them have serious personality issues.
I know that this article is over a year old now, but I wanted to leave a comment here. I had a similar issue with this site. With only one review, I got some helpful ratings, but I also received a quite a few not helpful reviews. In fact some of them came from advisors. I even had a comment from one of the advisors saying that I had run on sentences when there was no way that I had one and they counted me down for that. So I feel you on this. I soon as I saw that, I deleted my account with them.
They are very picky at Epinions, was the reason they down rated because you did not actually own the album? They are very picky about that, they will lower a rating if you have only owned something for a short time as well in some of the areas. I am sorry they were rude to you there.
He is the sort of crazed psychotic trash you can find on epinions. This feller likes going around labeling other people trolls, yet here he is stalking anyone who dares say anything bad about the precious epinions website. Not everyone is like this though, this man however... or woman is only making the site look worse though. You see, he/she thinks hes cracked some mystical underground lair of epinions trolls. lol. Meanwhile he has taken to following past members to this site, bashing their names, and spreading lies about such people...it just shows you what sort of trolls go bumping around the bridges over there at times. Thus why I no longer participate in getting cozy there anymore.
Who is this guy calling people Penny and who is he addresing??
As an Epinions member, I must say it is unfortunate when new members sometimes catch hell just for being new, but it does happen. It took me a while to figure out how things work, and I ended up doing pretty well on there. I'm still doing well on there. You should consider coming back! There's a lot of money to be made right now.
RPL, that is scary, because not only do some of these so called 'upstanding members' stalk you on that site, but as you can clearly see, they will stalk someone they don't like all throughout the internet. The stalking does not stop at epinions... the stalking stretches from one site to another, and is is downright disgusting.