We have a very constant flow of forum messages here related to equipment such as lenses and cameras. In our equipment database, it would be a great addition to the site if a "Post a Review" link was available where anyone could post a review of that specific piece of gear for others to read.
It would also be very nice if we could add equipment to the database outside of cameras and lenses. Some good additions would be tripods, heads, filters, bags, etc.
Please, please add that functionality, because as it is a lot of sensitive and important information is lost or is hard to find in the forums.
Will be easier if the owner of each equipment do the review and comments.
Surely something like this is real easy to do too?* Just add the comment feature to the equipment pages. Report post will take care of the occasional troll.
* ooh I sound just like my ex boss giving me a 3 week task and saying "It'll only take you 10 minutes won't it?"
*It is good to search for existing suggestions before posting them*
I was going to suggest equipment reviews and implementing with the following features:
- Make the reviews in a fashion like many movie review (and other review) sites where people can mark it helpful and the most helpful reviews show up first.
- Put a link to any reviews a user has written, somehwere in their profile page. Maybe next to the hardware they wrote it on.
- Keep them separate from the normal forums and associated directly with the lens or camera being reviewed.
- Provide a template or ask for a consistent format that includes things like date of review, pros, cons, overall rating, etc.
This is one of those suggestion that has immense value to the community - like tutorials (and unlike the ill-fated "threads killed" stat).
under the lenses directory - under the number of users who own a specific lens there is a 'user rating' row. it's said ' coming soon' since the lenses archive was introduced...
