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<blockquote data-quote="The Sigil" data-source="post: 999585" data-attributes="member: 2013"><p>Ain't that the truth! The only time I allow a really good or really bad review to influence my decision as to whether to purchase a product is in a PDF product. If it's a print product, I always leaf through it at my FLGS first unless it's from a company/name I have grown to trust implicitly (Bad Axe Games is one of these for me).</p><p></p><p>*shrugs* Fair enough. <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=":)" /></p><p></p><p>Reviews are all about opinions. The question is simply, "are you being fair" or are you deliberately stressing one side of the equation too much (most people would agree that "fanboy" reviews are as bad as "hater" reviews). Again, I agreed with MOST (not all) of Monte's points (at least insofar as I understand the changes without a copy of 3.5 in front of me) - I simply disagreed with the method of delivery as it seemed to me - through my own biases - to be a bit one-sided and focused on the negative (as I said, the fact that he listed quickly the "good" and expounded on the "bad" was problematic for me). I feel a good/fair reviewer will expound on the good and expound on the bad in about the same proportion as he finds good and bad in the product. EVERY product has some good and some bad.</p><p></p><p>As I said, since we all have biases, I'm sure there is bias in my review. I guess the question is whether or not there is "enough bias" to make it problematic. That's probably best left as an exercise for the reader... with his own biases. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></p><p></p><p>--The Sigil</p><p></p><p>EDIT: Fixed broken "quote" tag</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="The Sigil, post: 999585, member: 2013"] Ain't that the truth! The only time I allow a really good or really bad review to influence my decision as to whether to purchase a product is in a PDF product. If it's a print product, I always leaf through it at my FLGS first unless it's from a company/name I have grown to trust implicitly (Bad Axe Games is one of these for me). *shrugs* Fair enough. :) Reviews are all about opinions. The question is simply, "are you being fair" or are you deliberately stressing one side of the equation too much (most people would agree that "fanboy" reviews are as bad as "hater" reviews). Again, I agreed with MOST (not all) of Monte's points (at least insofar as I understand the changes without a copy of 3.5 in front of me) - I simply disagreed with the method of delivery as it seemed to me - through my own biases - to be a bit one-sided and focused on the negative (as I said, the fact that he listed quickly the "good" and expounded on the "bad" was problematic for me). I feel a good/fair reviewer will expound on the good and expound on the bad in about the same proportion as he finds good and bad in the product. EVERY product has some good and some bad. As I said, since we all have biases, I'm sure there is bias in my review. I guess the question is whether or not there is "enough bias" to make it problematic. That's probably best left as an exercise for the reader... with his own biases. ;) --The Sigil EDIT: Fixed broken "quote" tag [/QUOTE]
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