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<blockquote data-quote="SurgicalSteel" data-source="post: 422189" data-attributes="member: 5611">Aaron,I have been reading your stuff for a long time, and I appreciate that you are trying to be fair on this matter.The thing is, I think you are just wrong in this instance.The two statements seem to indicate that reviewers in general are constrained due to the fact that the item is free.If true, this is absolutely unacceptable.Its one thing if the quality of the review is poor (i.e. This sux d00d.) and insults the creator.Its another if someone asserts that a reviewer is under an obligation to not speak freely because the item was free.There are several websites I no longer read because they are simply hype machines that don't break things down and expose the glaring flaws.Thats why I go to usenet and sites like this.Most official sites no longer have any credibility.I suspect there is a kind of &quot;scoop blackmail&quot; at work here, an informal but real pressure.And statements like this serve simply to confirm such morbid suspicions.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="SurgicalSteel, post: 422189, member: 5611"] Aaron, I have been reading your stuff for a long time, and I appreciate that you are trying to be fair on this matter. The thing is, I think you are just wrong in this instance. The two statements seem to indicate that reviewers [b]in general[/b] are constrained due to the fact that the item is free. If true, this is absolutely unacceptable. Its one thing if the quality of the review is poor (i.e. This sux d00d.) and insults the creator. Its another if someone asserts that a reviewer is under an obligation to not speak freely because the item was free. There are several websites I no longer read because they are simply hype machines that don't break things down and expose the glaring flaws. Thats why I go to usenet and sites like this. Most official sites no longer have any credibility. I suspect there is a kind of "scoop blackmail" at work here, an informal but real pressure. And statements like this serve simply to confirm such morbid suspicions. [/QUOTE]

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