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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Brown Jenkin" data-source="post: 4243931" data-attributes="member: 2572">From <a href="http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=220628&page=5" target="_blank">http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=220628&page=5</a>See below for comments on your playtestingSounds like bias to me. That is not a review that is one person being insulted that people are dissing something he loves and is trying to get back at them. Revenge as motivation is bias, as well as the original bias that has you loving something so much that you feel the need to defend it.I stand by my use of the term biased. I don't expect a 50-50 split of positive and negative. But a review that is 100% positive is not really a review. There is bias if you love something so much that you had to defend it against attacks by others. As for bias as conflict of interest, the potential for that is there and should have been disclosed. As Mouseferatu states, he got your group in as playtesters so that he could learn the rules so that he could write for the game. Having a close friend who has a financial stake in something could be considered a conflict of interest. This certainly appears to me that a conflict of interest could be at work here. Even if there isn't, the appearance of a conflict can be just as bad as real one and should absolutely be disclosed by a reviewer or journalist. I didn't say he couldn't do negative, just that he was biased. Sorry to disappoint. I actually had a higher regard for you before reading that review. I was actually so horrified and disgusted that I almost quit half way through. I would not recommend you pointing to that again as something to make people like you. Well at least I know not to read anymore of your stuff.</blockquote>

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