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Thanks Rachel:
I know you are absolutely right ... and I am just trying to brush it off. I guess I just needed to vent a little. I do appreciate the kind comments.
Have a SUPER day!!!
Elaine
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Elaine -
I think responses like the one you received on your recipe are the negative price tag attached to posting pretty much anything on the internet. Your recipe sounds great to me. Don't let the people who have different tastes than you, get you down. You can't do anything about them, and no matter what you try, the ache ends up in your heart, not thier's.
Focus on how much you love making this for your family and ignore everyone else's comments.
Rachel
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Okay, so here's my situation with the 'ratings for the reviewers' issue ... (forgive me, I may ramble a bit ... )
Someone registered as a new member on 7/31/07 and rated one of my recipes on 8/3/07 ... she gave it a 'BAD' and a one star rating and her comments suggest changes that basically turn the recipe into another dish entirely. She has barely participated on the message boards, has not posted any recipes at all, and she has not rated any other recipes.
Granted, the recipe she rated is not really THAT much of a recipe to start with ... just fruit and a yogurt 'dressing' basically - http://recipes.sparkpeople.com/recipe-detail.asp?recipe=117041 . I'm not saying it's the GREATEST or most complicated or unique dish in the world. But it's something I made for my family, we liked it, so I calculated it to use on our food diaries and I shared it incase anyone else wanted to try that particular combination for themselves.
So my 'issue' is ... why should someone be able to rate a reasonably HEALTHY, low calorie, low fat, and imho yummy recipe as 'BAD' based simply on the fact that they have a completely different idea for a similar (yet almost entirely different) dish?!?!? Is fruit and yogurt and fat free sour cream really BAD? Is it BAD when compaired to using FF/SF instant pudding instead of yogurt (as the comment suggested?) Personally, I don't think so ...
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DJHEILMANN
6/18/07 8:58 P
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| This tweak is now launched!
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| Thanks, that's great news and I appreciate the feedback.
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DJHEILMANN
6/12/07 12:56 P
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| We're going to add a tweak to ratings so that members can specify if they made a recipe or not. I think this will help with this issue to some degree.
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I usually make my own recipes (I have tons of cookbooks), but I have made a few from SparkPeople that are quite good.
This thread is enlightening for me though - I didn't realize the reviews were made by people that have not actually tried the recipe. How ridiculous that is! What is the point? Am I reading correctly that SparkPeople grants points to people who review recipes? If so, I guess that explains it.
The Cooking Light website has always been good because their recipes are all reviewed by people who have actually tried the recipes. Now Cooking Light switched to Myrecipes website which is a combination of recipes from Cooking Light, Sunset Magazine, Health Magazine, and others.
Again, if you read the reviews on myrecipes.com, they are so helpful. People only review the recipes when they have made it and they write suggestions, ways to tweak the recipes, ingredients they've added, etc. It is so helpful.
It would be nice if there was some sort of control on the recipe reviews at Sparkpeople.
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| I am also sick and tired of these stupid reviews from people who have not even tried a recipe. I would love to have a way to filter them out, like a question: Have you used this recipe? With a yes or no box. If they click the no box, they can't submit the recipe. At least then there would be credibility.
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I have a suggestion...If the reviewer says, "I can't wait to try this", or "sounds yummy", send them a message and ask them to then change their rating from blank star AFTER they make it. If you would go to the trouble of RATING the reviewer, this wouldn't be a problem for you.
I look at the reviews when I am deciding on a recipe to try and just ignore the ones who don't put a rating. I see some folks just like to point fingers.
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I love the recipe site but have stopped even looking at or participating in the review sections because of this issue, which just seems to generate so much bad feeling over what ought to be a fun addition to spark. 
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| This absolutely needs to be addressed. I, too, am sick of seeing 5-stars being given because something "sounds yummy" or "looks good". I've been a reviewer for allrecipes.com for years, and reviews MUST be based on actual experience. Users can rate the review as helpful or not. I'm being very careful about using the Spark recipe site because the credibility of the reviews is so suspect.
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| Although I personally think it's valid to rate a recipe by your opinion of the ingredients or whatever, even if you haven't tried it (I like reading people's thoughts on the recipes and there is no rule stated on the site that reviewers have to have cooked and eaten the item), a review on the feedback items is a good, if overcomplicated, idea in my opinion. I like the way Amazon has a "Was this review helpful to you?" poll on items. Very fun to read.
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| I love the idea of rating the raters. I'm tired of going to a recipe, reading the reviews and having 2/3 of them be "Can't wait to try this." I totally get the obsession with getting points, but come on people -- have some integrity!
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| Actually, I was thinking about it further, and the thumbs up/thumbs down should be for the specific review. You could still get a composite score for each reviewer that way, but then you could also control whether or not to count that specific review in the recipe's overall score.
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DJHEILMANN
3/18/07 1:10 P
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| Thanks for the feedback, we'll keep that in mind!
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I'd like to be able to give a reviewer a thumbs up/thumbs down. There are a lot of people reviewing recipes that haven't even tried them. It's lame and unhelpful. If we could rate the reviewers, and then each reviewer would have a percentage of thumbs up. You could then discount reviewers with a lot of negative ratings from the community by not counting their review for the final score for a recipe (i.e. your reviewer score has to be 50% thumbs up for your review to count toward a recipe's score).
I think something like this would make the recipe ratings more meaningful.
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