Ben's Bargains

Ben · Joined: 30 Jun 2006 Posts: 54038

Here at BensBargains we often feel compelled to buy the very deals we post. Some products turn out to be everything we expected, while other products fall short of our expectations. Coming into the new year, I was thinking of how to make this site even more useful, and it occurred to me that we can share our own experiences with these products by doing product reviews. These won’t be multi-page write-ups that take 30 minutes to read, but rather a concise statement of how the product performed versus our expectations. Feel free to share your opinions in each review discussion, as well as to contact us about products that you’d like to see us tackle.

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plasmaboy2 · Joined: 04 Oct 2006 Posts: 56

The biggest challenge will be moderating and preventing useless unrelated comments.

pipper · Joined: 23 Jul 2006 Posts: 157

Good idea, but How and where ben? Thru the usual discuss link where m0f0 and some bored geeks at work beating each other down?

bigsister49 · Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 6:26 pm Post subject: Re: Website Comment

RakuRay · Joined: 15 Mar 2007 Posts: 863

Great idea since most of the comments posted here by my fellow Ben Buddies are not worth the digital ink.

jamex · Joined: 26 Apr 2007 Posts: 769 Location: Your Mom's house

...isn't that what THESE comments are for?

Michigan1 · Joined: 01 Dec 2006 Posts: 212

The reviews on Amazon and Cicuit City usually were a good start for a review but it would be nice if you can come up with something also useful.

SelfGovern · Joined: 10 Aug 2006 Posts: 2021 Location: Houston

Ben, there are a handful of users who post nothing but idiocy and snips back and forth. If you banned those posters, the value of your site would go up a huge amount.

Some posters, like CompWiz17 (may not have his name exactly right), post nothing but valuable information. Do something to encourage folks like him... maybe you could have your drawings truly be something to reward valuable posts.

Or maybe open up a second "discuss" type form, except titled "User Review" and give folks one warning for a non-helpful post, before banning their ID. If you do it right, after a while nobody will even visit anything but the Reviews.

vw971 · Joined: 08 Oct 2007 Posts: 63

People currently leave useful comments. However, there are people who leaves comments with non sense trash talk. Ben, you should add a anonymous flag to remove comments that is not useful.

fboutlaw11 · Joined: 12 Nov 2007 Posts: 189

I have always found the user reviews helpful if there are useful ones, but if I'm going to really look into a product I'll jump to consumer reports or cnet. What about just linking to product scores off of those sites?

pug_ster · Joined: 19 Sep 2006 Posts: 432

I bet there's some people who has nothing better to do. Let them moderate. Also, let other people besides Bacon to post deals.

Big big hint: PAY people to do useful reviews, give them like $.50. It goes a long way

lawnsprinkler · Joined: 06 Dec 2007 Posts: 1879 Location: your mom

How about all these complainers tackling a big bag of dïcks.

BubbRubb · Joined: 05 Dec 2007 Posts: 1276

#5's got a point, but I think Ben is talking about something a little more permanently tied to a product instead of starting the comments at zero every time the deal is posted again. We have a lot of recurring deals on this site and a lot of the questions asked are redundant.

BubbRubb · Joined: 05 Dec 2007 Posts: 1276

But please continue to provide a way for us to get our daily dose of Lawnsprinkler

bigsister49 · Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 6:38 pm Post subject: Re: Website Comment