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<blockquote data-quote="jaerdaph" data-source="post: 1315128" data-attributes="member: 3398"><p>I rely heavily on the staff reviewers at En World, and the reviews of a few prolific non-staff reviewers here as well who know how to review.</p><p></p><p>And I think that's the key. <strong>Prolific familiarity</strong>: You have to see <strong>a lot</strong> of reviews from an individual to learn their tastes, styles, likes and dislikes, before you learn to "trust" them, for lack of a better word. And even if your tastes etc. don't match theirs, you can still make informed purchase decisions from that reviewers comments, if they know how to review. <strong>Knowing How to Review</strong>: There are far too many reviews posted by people who picked up a book and within 24 hours have posted a review telling you how "cool" something is. There are even a couple of other review sites out there that seem to do that exclusively, and it makes you wonder if it's not to just keep the free product coming. I won't mention names. It's one thing to buy something and rave about it immediately in a message thread (I do that too), but another to post that opinion as a formal review. Case in point. <em>Skull & Bones</em>. Yes, it's a very good book, and I'm glad I got it, but there are some very serious editing flaws with the voodoo classes and their spell charts being messed up (can't remember the exact specifics now). And to the best of my knowledge, I have yet to see a single review, 5 out of 5, 10 Stars, or otherwise, mention that fact. I've seen books panned for less. I'm not saying <em>Skull & Bones</em> should be panned, it was, all-in-all, very well done, but it's not perfect. </p><p></p><p>But nobody's perfect, so perhaps this is moot. <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></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jaerdaph, post: 1315128, member: 3398"] I rely heavily on the staff reviewers at En World, and the reviews of a few prolific non-staff reviewers here as well who know how to review. And I think that's the key. [b]Prolific familiarity[/b]: You have to see [b]a lot[/b] of reviews from an individual to learn their tastes, styles, likes and dislikes, before you learn to "trust" them, for lack of a better word. And even if your tastes etc. don't match theirs, you can still make informed purchase decisions from that reviewers comments, if they know how to review. [b]Knowing How to Review[/b]: There are far too many reviews posted by people who picked up a book and within 24 hours have posted a review telling you how "cool" something is. There are even a couple of other review sites out there that seem to do that exclusively, and it makes you wonder if it's not to just keep the free product coming. I won't mention names. It's one thing to buy something and rave about it immediately in a message thread (I do that too), but another to post that opinion as a formal review. Case in point. [i]Skull & Bones[/i]. Yes, it's a very good book, and I'm glad I got it, but there are some very serious editing flaws with the voodoo classes and their spell charts being messed up (can't remember the exact specifics now). And to the best of my knowledge, I have yet to see a single review, 5 out of 5, 10 Stars, or otherwise, mention that fact. I've seen books panned for less. I'm not saying [i]Skull & Bones[/i] should be panned, it was, all-in-all, very well done, but it's not perfect. But nobody's perfect, so perhaps this is moot. :) [/QUOTE]
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