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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jgbrowning" data-source="post: 1834733" data-attributes="member: 5724">Heh, hello can 'o worms...To me a professional is one who's paid to review. Ok, now that that's out of the way *ROFL* we can talk about professional rpg reviewers. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Professional to me is someone who has a lot of reviews (preferrably 20+), who is offically associated with a reputable site/magazine, and who tends to review items that have been sent to him or her from publishers more than he or she reviews self-purchased material. To me, that shows a connection between producer and reviewer indicating a "higher level" of reviewer.All of the above, including the paid for bit, has nothing to do with the quality of the review or reviewer to me. Quality is something that's highly subjective.  I'd much more rather have a consistant reviewer; a reviewer who produces reviews that are all of the same tone, consideration, and general bias. Doing so makes it easier on the readers, given time, to make their own appraisal of the "quality" of the reviewer and allows publishers to make better decisions on who to send review copies out to.That sounds kinda mercenary, and I suppose it is, but I'd rather keep giving someone who's given my products average reviews (say 3 out of 5) while maintaining the same style, tone, and thoroughness in every review than send out a review copy to someone whose given me some great reviews and some pans (like a 1 here and 5 there) who's review style is erratic. Consistancy in style, tone, and thoroughness are most important to me. The actual rating of the product isn't so important to me as product quality varies, but I'd like review "quality" to be as consistant as possible.joe b.</blockquote>

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