tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-953397841255562532.post4947214420448885276..comments2023-09-30T14:59:05.385+01:00Comments on G4ILO's Blog: eHam.net review updatesAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11984840704237681015noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-953397841255562532.post-87082784985054028452013-04-11T22:26:03.058+01:002013-04-11T22:26:03.058+01:00eHam also prevents good reviews from being added.
...eHam also prevents good reviews from being added.<br />I asked a selection of previous customers to consider leaving a review on eHam and I have several customers lately inform me that they have submitted perfectly good and honest reviews and that they have not been published, no reason provided. eHam skew their own ratings as they please to suit themsleves and their advertsiers.<br />g4zlp<br />G4ZLPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16586058691843777217noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-953397841255562532.post-64604702538157844082010-01-23T22:02:26.683+00:002010-01-23T22:02:26.683+00:00Hi George. Yes, it was your reviews manager who to...Hi George. Yes, it was your reviews manager who told me the duplicate removal is a manual process. As someone who maintains a couple of ham websites myself I know it is easier to suggest a feature than to implement it. It certainly would be cool if, when submitting an updated review, the system could warn you and offer to load the previous review so you could edit it. Good luck with the update.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11984840704237681015noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-953397841255562532.post-46002996293373992232010-01-23T19:27:14.815+00:002010-01-23T19:27:14.815+00:00Hi,
I do not know if you have contacted our revie...Hi,<br /><br />I do not know if you have contacted our reviews manager regarding your issues but I am sure that he would be more than willing to help and/or explain what is going on. <br /><br />You are also welcome to post into our "Site Talk" forum with any issues you have with eHam polices or web site operational issues. <br /><br />It is true - the duplicate review detection and removal is all manual.<br /><br />You are also correct about it not being rocket science to make the database / programing take care o f it.<br /><br />I think that we should do a better job through programming it so that we warn the user about duplicate reviews or for that matter our code should be detecting duplicate reviews. For various reasons the code that runs eHam.net has had very little work done on it since it was created over 10 years ago.<br /><br />We have been (finally) working on the code that drives the eham site. Our first major change has been to the forums code. We have a beta site up for that software now <br /><br />http://seattle.eham.net/ <br /><br />We have just started to work on the reviews area code (just in the past few days) and it is on our list to deal with things like duplicate reviews and how to deal with them and how to detect them. <br /><br />I am hopeful we can make the site better in many ways. If you have any suggestions or input please let me/us hear from you.<br /><br />Thanks<br /><br />George<br />K5TR<br />geoiii@eham.netgeoiiihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13915802067469781111noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-953397841255562532.post-60893310190742918552010-01-23T16:58:25.841+00:002010-01-23T16:58:25.841+00:00I had a reply from NA4M. Apparently removal of dup...I had a reply from NA4M. Apparently removal of duplicate reviews is a manual process, therefore a bit hit and miss. I wouldn't have thought it was rocket science to make the database take care of that, as you say.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11984840704237681015noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-953397841255562532.post-26384232512364743182010-01-23T15:08:44.672+00:002010-01-23T15:08:44.672+00:00I think it's silly they delete your old review...I think it's silly they delete your old review. If they've got the programing ability to see you posted an review before and nuke it, why update your old review with a link at the start of it to the new review. (and let me tell you and I'm sure you know this, it's not to tricky to update a database record) What they are forgetting is you can learn a lot from someones negative and then positive review. For example I've read reviews where someone will say “I couldn't get X to work and thought it was a pile of garbage, 1 star.... until I figured out I was doing something wrong, 4 stars” <br /><br />Also just a personal commentary on eham.com. If it weren't for the review section on that site I'd vote to shut it down. It seems like every article or question posted there ends up being some mud slinging/name calling grudgefest. I used to have a membership there but let it lapse because I couldn't stand the nastiness that seemed to lurk there.<br /><br />All this review stuff reminds me of a poster I saw that said “It could be that the purpose of your life is only to serve as a warning to others"<br /><br />73<br />Jay aka KD8EURJay Dighsxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15526038525744560653noreply@blogger.com