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Why Developers Can Ignore Software Reviews
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[quote][b]xaos[/b] wrote: I can only say that I personally do still look at reviews, but generally not just at the star rating, but the actual review text. For a lot of stuff this boils down to skimming over a lot of reviews of either extreme which are nearly incomprehensible or clearly (for me) more advertising than review, and ignoring those - which leaves a few insightful ones. From those I do often learn a lot about the product - and even if the reviewer didn't like it because of a particular issue it might well be that that issue doesn't bother me, so I disregard the negative rating, and likewise in the opposite direction. It is kind of similar in spirit to reviews in magazines: Often you know they have been paid for, and are therefore favorable, so "reading between the lines" will provide some insight of whether the product is good for me. Another quite common source of recommendations these days comes from blogs/vlogs of people who in the past have had similar opinions to mine. Not that this works out always, and I did spend a couple of bucks on stuff I found recommended, but don't really use because it didn't fit my needs; but overall it became a good source of information as well. As to the star ratings I hand out (apart from rating visits to mail boxes on google maps...): I rarely rate products, and try to do it only after using them for a while, but it does happen that I get really dissatisfied with something (like mobile apps deteriorating in functionality over time... or requiring me to use Facebook) and then don't hesitate to give negative ratings. So this got longer than intended... :)[/quote]
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