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So when you're reviewing a product and you're using the sliders, when you slide it to the left it means that you're leaning more towards the right choice and vice versa? Because I just did a review and now i'm confused.
My understanding (and I'm pretty confident in this) is that you drag the cursor towards the rating that you want. So if I want to say my helmet is lightweight, I drag the cursor towards "light". Because it's a comparison, not a rating from (e.g.) 1-10, right?
Wherever the split between the two colours is closer to, is what the user is leaning towards. It gets confusing when it's full orange or full blue though. I think it would make sense to have a little bar that divides the two colours to make it clearer.
- Can we get the ability to use paragraphs in the review section, I wrote two reviews, and afterwards I realised how overwhelming they looked being a continuous block of text.
Good point, we should have a little indicator or something. You're right though, the idea is that its a slider to represent where you sit between the two options.
I doubt they're going anywhere, tbh. My understanding is that they are there not designed only to rate the product, but also to categorize it. Eventually, after enough reviews are amassed, this sort of thing would allow you to search by characteristic (stiff skis, say) and get a bunch of reviews of skis that fit your search.
Also, my guess is that not everyone is down to write out a paragraph about their gear - With sliders, no one is deterred from rating their gear because they don't want to write it out. And, for what it's worth, the written capacities and credibility of NSers' opinions varies significantly, so this takes some of the guesswork out of it.