Should reviews be anonymous?

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Most of the time reviews on platforms have the username of the reviewer. Think of yelp, google, most Amazon reviews. On most of those sites I don’t find much use to seeing people’s usernames. However, on C2 reviews have just two categories: subscriber and AutoTrader. I think it would be nice to be able to see usernames then see what other reviews the person has left. I think it would help show whether the reviews had a good pattern of finding bad systems or just got angry because they joined at good or bad times. Not a big deal but it would be nice to have imho.

Should username of reviewers be shown?
  • Yes
  • No

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Voted No, but because of “doesn’t matter” vote was skipped. Reviews in most of the cases highly correlated to equity curve directions :slight_smile: and therefore useless. IMHO.

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You are probably right. There are of course outliers, but the review do seem to be highly correlated with the equity curves of strategies.

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A couple perfect examples of how beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Twice this strategy had a 1 and 5 star review on the same day.

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It all depends on when you subscribed. There’s so many subs that pick strategies like they pick stocks, buy high and sell low.

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I can’t agree more. This is why 95% or so of traders lose money. I made that stat up but I know plenty of studies say similar.

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Yeah, it sort of isn’t getting the results of the strategies anymore. Instead, by moving in / out of strategies as if they are trading ETFs, the strategy picker’s are adding their own trading/timing to the strategy’s timing/methods. (well, not exactly of course, but one thing I noticed, people tend to jump into a strategy at peaks, and get out at bottoms, only to miss the runup after the bottom).

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I don’t think it’s a good idea, because if C2 Trade Leaders could see the reviewers’s username they would be tempted to put them on a “black list” and reject their future subscription, to prevent them from leaving a negative feedback on their own C2 systems, if these reviewers have already left two or more negative reviews on other strategies.

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