Current trend on MS is really alarming.
Mouthshut.com, the concept is good and it works!.
I came to know about this site from search engines while searching for some product reviews. I found it useful and later I opened an account here.
I have watched closely various sections on this site. Certain things are not upto the expectations of a opinion seeker.
Some product reviews are just stories of another world. One finds useful contents 20% and rest is just story about background.
Current trend on MS, is Reviewer centric not a product centric. Comments are full of personal discussions, very less comments focus on content of the review. One writes review, other follow his or her advice and every body leaving people like me, rate it ’’very useful’’.
End result, purpose of this website forfeits. It is not about you write, I rate, I comment, I write, you comment, you rate.
There are the people who are not user on this site, who come and read with out having an account on MS.
MS should make a strict guidelines for reviews and comments. Personal comments should be deleted from reviews and a warning should be given to those who comment. People are filling website with lot of useless discussions, commenting on nationalities, gender, races. Personal discussions are going on.
If MS wants it can change the trend back to product centric.
Now the features which I did not find here.
I would like to track all those reviews where I have put my comments. Such reviews should be listed like my reviews are listed. So that I could know if somebody replied to my comments or not. It is very difficult to remember the reviews which are not mine but my words are there.
I have written several reviews here and I try my best to be product centric. There is no use of putting lines and lines about stories and not having meaning full substance. MS should make a guideline about reviews. Maximum there should be four paras. One for the details, second for what you liked third for what you did not like, fourth, what could be better. But here, some people are writing like dialogue scripts. Like it is not review but a movie scene script.
MS is a good initiative, lets not misuse it and lets not make mockery of it. Even if you become famous here, you get your photo on best list, bottom line remains same, somebody or a new user would come to know soon about your reputation too. Lets not write for the sake of earning good comments or being famous.
Forming a group and offering a biased review, getting biased comments, is really alarming on MS. Review should be a first hand experience with the product.
I hope MS wakes up soon before it is too late and monster eats it.
Thanks
Mahens