Customers want a 1-5 star rating that says "yes buy" or "no don't buy" - they rarely actually want reviews.
Even with all the gamed reviews on sites like this and Amazon, if you spend the time you can usually figure out what's up, but it takes time.
Even with all the gamed reviews on sites like this and Amazon, if you spend the time you can usually figure out what's up, but it takes time.
Often it's garbage (this won't do X--hey, if you had paid attention you would know they never claimed it would do X!) or irrelevant (it's not the fault of the product if it was late, damaged in shipping etc) and sometimes it's just a tread-with-caution (I've seen a lot of that on Amazon--customers burned by combined-inventory or bogus stuff). If it's legitimate gripes you've found something to avoid.
So unless the review cater to me personally by covering those points, I usually prefer a more detailed review (or a large number of reviews/discussions by Googling in the hope that someone covers those points).