Not index page that doesn't have relevant content?

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Published on 2012-03-19T13:25:13Z Indexed on 2012/03/19 18:15 UTC
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I have a large software website and on each application we let users add comments, reviews and so on. Each of these pages are called for example "Comments About Firefox", "Firefox Reviews" and so on.

If we don't have any reviews or we for some reason KNOW that the visitor from Google would be disappointed should we add "noindex" to that page? Or should we just let Google decide if they want to rank us or not?

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