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cgod  ·  2698 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: How important is crowdsourced feedback to you?

I've seen so many beautiful/informative comments on YouTube. I suppose if you are watching common, controversial or popular stuff that you'll be exposed to the masses and their course discourse. I feel like people who hate YouTube and Twitter must be doing it wrong, it's like they hate resturants because they had a bad time at a McDonald's on the wrong side of town.

On Amazon I look at the worst reviews first to see what can go wrong with a product. Half of the worst reviews are often people who didn't buy the right product or bought the wrong size. The other half give a pretty good idea about the how poor design or quality might let you down. As far as aggreggate star or thumbs up or down goes, and extremely bad score with a lot of votes is a quick dismissal, the more reviews the better and anything three or more is probably worth a look if there aren't many products in it's class.

For stuff like electronics I'm way more likely to check out what The Wirecutter suggest than wade through a bunch of comments. Any time there is a freak with a blog that does something like review every pourover kettle, I'm likely to weight his score more than the random commentators.