Commenting and rating are essential and valuable to Triond community members. The sharing spirit of reviewers is evident by the fact that there are so many message forums and groups devoted to increasing traffic and improving writing. Sometimes ratings are very low for no reason apparent to the writer. Others feel overlooked altogether. Then we have the megastars of Triond who have thousands of badges and hundreds of articles with many views and comments.
Is there hesitation to rate and comment on writing that contains too many mistakes, pieces that are long, and written in an unconventional manner? All site members need to feel they are receiving useful feedback. Site membership will increase if forgotten members are reviewed more often.
If we get a lot of value from posting reviews, we will have an incentive to post reviews even when we don’t have a strong opinion, but maybe to exaggerate it to get our review read. When we can’t trust reviews any more, they cease to be valuable. What then?
Helium’s user agreement is very thorough in explaining its agreement terms. However, the word non-exclusive has a whole new meaning on Helium. This site stands alone in the creation of its own set of rules regarding ownership.