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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Morrus" data-source="post: 5744425" data-attributes="member: 1">I'd argue otherwise, [MENTION=22622]DonTadow[/MENTION].EN World, for example, has moved towards a paid reviewer stance; which by its nature includes accountability.  While it is, admittedly, limited to those products that the two reviewers either get sent by publishers or purchase themselves (the latter probably stuff they are predisposed to like, since they're spending their own money), EN World has always had a pretty firm stance on reviews being not beholden to the publisher.  I'd rather they stopped sending products than appease anyone with fake reviews.Luckily, this does not happen any more.  There were some incidents in the past of publishers attempting to coerce reviewers into good reviews, and I publicised them - posted the emails and everything.  Zero tolerance.  It stopped, and hasn't happened here in a long time.As for the references to ads and reviews touched on in a couple of posts further back - in this industry, that's just nonsense.  Maybe it happens with movies and stuff - I don't know.  But in the decade I've been doing this I've never seen an ad/review related interaction (and, frankly, our ads are handles by an independent outside agency - I don't interact with the ad side at all).Maybe some publishers stop advertising because of a bad review on a site that happened to be included on the network they advertise on, but I wouldn't know it if they did and wouldn't want to.  Simply doesn't interact.</blockquote>

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