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Thursday, March 13th, 2025 2:16 AM

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Reviews: Add an option to mark reviews as private

Since last night, the last 25 reviews I wrote were downvoted by one person. (I stopped counting at 25.) The vast majority had no votes whatsoever until today. It must be the same person who did that. Downvotes are no big deal to me, but I think it's juvenile what someone did. My privacy setting for "Ratings" was "Public only with reviews". If I change that to "Private", will all my reviews still be shown when someone clicks on my user name or not?

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9 days ago

Hi bluedusk- Yes, your reviews will still be shown if you change it to 'Private.' It would only be your ratings history that will be set as private. Cheers!

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Why is that? Why would rating history need to be private and reviews not? That seems backwards to me.

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The User Reviews are not able to be hidden, in this case only the ratings.

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As I said, no big deal. Why would anyone want their ratings hidden, however?

Employee

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@bluedusk- Some people might want to keep them private, therefore, this option is available to be used as users prefer. Cheers!

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Some people might want to keep their reviews hidden, too. :) Maybe that option should be available.

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This is an interesting idea which we do not believe has been suggested before. We have converted this thread into an Idea so other customers can comment and vote upon it.

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I vote yes for private reviews. :) Thanks for taking my comments seriously. I still don't understand, though, why someone would want their ratings private.

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4 days ago

You can make a custom list, make it private, and keep your notes/reviews together there. How would you even look at (find) your own reviews if they are private?

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I assume you would be able to see your reviews as you do now, but others could not. It's like how Amazon profile pages have a private view page, where you see your reviews, and a public review page, where no reviews are visible.