AT should place scores on there reviews

[DrDoomed]

howdy ,

I might be new to the forums but i'm not new to the site. AT has helped me on many buying decisions , with it's well made guides and reviews, but one thing is missing , to make things just that much easier , yes i say it , scores . Right now i'm in the middle of deciding on a new monitor and although reading the reviews help , i'm still pretty stranded in making a choice , if i could see numbers it would be alot easier.

I bet this topic has probably been done before and closed , but although anand make well written reviews a writers presonal score would be cool. It'd help me anyway.

 

[Maverick]

Anandtech does very indepth reviews...tacking on a 4/5 or 3/5 score for everything would encourage people to skip the review and just look at the score. That means lost ad revenue because people won't look at the pages long enough.

Even those of us who skip ahead to Final Thoughts or Conclusion usually put in enough time to read the whole page. If there was just a numeric score on there you know most of us would walk away right after we saw a 3 or a 2 attached to a review.

Plus there's always the politics involved when you start quantifying your reviews like that. Vendors don't like to see things with a low numeric score. They're much more responsive to specific issues encountered with their hardware.

 

[Stark]

they used to have gold silver and bronze awards. Monitors are tough though. I wouldn't want to buy one without seeing it in action first.

 

[DrDoomed]

Originally posted by: Stark
they used to have gold silver and bronze awards. Monitors are tough though. I wouldn't want to buy one without seeing it in action first.

What happened to the award system then? If putting numerical grades is out of the question, a editors choice award wouldn't go a miss would it?

 

[meltdown75]

I think once you get into the higher echelons of a product or certain component, you are going to be happy regardless which decision you make. For example, in some of the buyer's / builder's guides there are alternatives given but you just know that both the original recommendation and the alternative have been scrutinized and benchmarked so much that you trust them to be quality.