http://www.hostsearch.com/showcomment.asp?companycode=209

Interesting??

looks like they have had a busy day.

What's the point of your post, UmBillyCord? Do you have an account with QWK.Net? Are you an unhappy current or former customer? How about you, goodness0001? Ever read a complaint about QWK.Net here?

Sheesh, I am SO F*CKING TIRED of seeing people here comment on companies they have never been hosted with!

I am a happy current QWK.Net customer, both of my domains http://www.mimf.com and http://forumhosts.com are hosted with them. If you have a question about them, ask it, but don't sling mud for no reason.

Deb Suran,

Would you be able to explain what your problem is? They didn't say anything bad about them. Your getting upset over nothing. Your asking what the point of their posts is, what's the point of yours? They never meationed anything negative about them, he was just pointing out how many people were leaving feedback.

I think he was just referring to them getting like 15 review in one day thats all.

-Brendan

Originally posted by HRBrendan
I think he was just referring to them getting like 15 review in one day thats all.

What's so amazing about that? They probably just sent emails out to their customers asking for reviews.

Sheesh, I am SO F*CKING TIRED of seeing people here comment on companies they have never been hosted with!

How do you know this?? Do you use your great web site design skills to read minds?? PS - nice language coming from a lady??

What's the point of your post, UmBillyCord?

Hostsearch dropped their reviews because of numerous issues. They "fixed" them and released a new version. I like it. However I noticed when I went to review some, this hosting company hit with tons of reviews. Granted, they could have easily asked their users to submit. No problem. However if you would have looked, or even attempted to apply reason, you would see some people submitted numeroues times using different domain name variations. They even gave different ratings for different sites. Anyway, as I asked... does anyone think this is interesting?? Host reveiws play a big part of many host lives. I jsu wanted to see what other other host though.

but don't sling mud for no reason.

Non was thrown except by you and your ignorant response. However I forgive you, as i too have been known to post to quickly without reading first. Have a lovely day Deb.

You know Deb, coem to think of it iI just found this page -
http://forumhosts.com/hosts.htm

Looks like a lot of mud slinging. Do you know Chris? Have you personally hosted with *all* host on your site or are you believing from second hand experience? From your ignorant attack above about not posting without first hosting, I sure hope you do the same - if not you are just a hypocrite. You kill me.

I just thought it was really strange that they got like 30 reviews within one day. The company i work for has a fair amount of customers and we may get 1-2 reviews a month or so, face you will get 1 good review out of 20 customers but the potential to get 10 bad reviews out of the same sample, more people complain than praise is all im saying, thats why i found it odd.

There was no mud slinging....

It is simply part of the continuous problem of online reviews including on this site. On some sites, ratings are bought either directly or indirectly by promise of advertising business. On others that try to be independent, ratings are distorted. Sometimes, they are distorted positively and just as often negatively by a few satisfied overzealous persons or dissatisfied persons with a grudge and vengeance.

Guess all it says is take all with a grain of salt.

And, guess the poster took for granted that we would recognize what took place for what it was because we have seen it all so many times before.

Actually, since this got brought back... I found this one from a review

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QWK.Net, LLC
Reviewed by Russell (62.155.216.2) on January 17, 2002
Domain Hosted: mediashark.com
Overall Average: 3.4 (uptime = 4; tech = 3; customer = 3; speed = 4; price = 3)
Pros: QWK.net offers a helpful web site for managing account
Cons: vague promotions, such as $40 referral bonus, *and perhaps the $5 for this survey.*
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If this is true, looks like they paid them $5 to do the survey. No wonder some submitted numerous times. :)

lol

Bwuahahahaha! That's too funny! It all makes sense now ^___^ Good lord, what companies won't do for business?!

Thanks for the laugh, UmBillyCord!

ochiba

I don't think the people actually went to the site. More likely, qwk.net sent them a survey, promising $5, and then, in one day, posted all the result of the surveys.

Looks like someone cutted and pasted without looking...

At least qwk.net is being honest, and all the reviews seems legitimate. I think they are paying to look "real" rather than look "good". I personally would go for a host that have a little negativity with lots of reviews rather one that has two perfect reviews.

Peter

I don't think the people actually went to the site. More likely, qwk.net sent them a survey, promising $5, and then, in one day, posted all the result of the surveys.

Yeah, I guess I don't see where you could read it any different. I don't think it says any where we thought they were paying none customers to post or visitors to the site to post. The review is from an actual user of QWK. It is quite funny to me. I couldn't imagine paying $5 to my customer to ask them to submit reviews. But that is just me.

Looks like someone posted without first reading and understanding....

Does seem a little shady... especially since all the reviews are from different IPs. I would assume because they were 'perhaps' giving out $5 per review, that it might depend on the rating the customer gave them... which would definatly tend to curve their rating up a bit.

-Brendan

Even if they asked people to rate them truthfully, giving them $5 will always curve their score some. Some might think they won't get their $5 if they post a negative post. I'm not saying this was the case though, they seem to have very happy customers who never complain here.

They may be a great company, but it is just interesting...nothing more.

Sheesh, I can't believe I missed this thread before.

Guys, all those reviews are honest reviews from real customers. We paid customers $5 to compensate them for their time in filling out the review. After all, time is money, and frankly, we get a better response rate when we offer a small little bonus like that. The bonus was in no way linked whether they reviewed us favorably or not.

Brendan, I wish you'd think before accusing us of only offering the bonus for good reviews. I don't understand why you think it's shady that the reviews come from different IPs. Isn't that quite contrary to common sense? They're all from different IPs because they're different customers posting them. (Doesn't take a degree in rocket science to figure that one out.)

Some of our customers did get a little overzealous in posting one review for each site they host with us. They were just trying to help, but didn't realize it makes things look a little funny. ;) The bonus was per customer, not per review.