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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Drifter Bob" data-source="post: 1519278" data-attributes="member: 17723">I personally haven't done any reviews since I started writing in the industry, but I think it would be ok to do so if they were positive.  I agree that posting a very negative review of someone elses work isn't a great idea.  I generally try to define a product I review anyway, what it's features are.  I think these days the way the market is, and the culture of rpg's, it's often kind of bogus to just give a 'thumbs up' or 'thumbs down' on a book.  Sure, there are some stand outs, utter trash and gleaming gems ... but those will be recoginzed as such.  More often though, I think you have products which have a lot of different kinds of material in them which are valuable to different types of consumers.  For example, I don't like high - level games too much, I like historical realism.  Does that mean I should automatically give an Avalanche Press book 5 stars and a book about god slaying planar travel 1 star?  Nope... you should simply define it for what it is.  The market is so broad now, and there are so many niches, people have so many pet peeves and little prejudices and preferences... I find that I get the most use from reivews which are descriptive in this way.... they let you know what you can find in the book and what you can't.  I find that I'm often reading 'between the lines' to suss out this information and trying to figure out what the reviewers bias is.As a writer, given that online reviews in particular as so important to the success or failure of a book, I definately feel that the more reviews you can get the better off you are.  If you get only one or two reviews, you might only get the guy who happens to not like your sub-genre, or you might get a review that, even though positive, only portrays one aspect of the book.  THe more reviews you get the more well ronuded of a picture of what your book is all about emerges.DB</blockquote>

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