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Re: don't call them reviews
by will on Wednesday 08/Aug/2001, @11:44

Hi

Thanks again for your great work! Someone else suggested to call them "guides" which would be better. Although I have a feeling that there is an even better word out there...

Yes, reviews are supposed to be impartial - they should only serve the primary interest of giving an objective assessment of the product. Expressing personal preferences belongs to a review, but that it something else. You are a KDE-developer and the texts are to all appearances an attempt to present the applications in best possible light, serving the external interest of promoting KDE. Nothing wrong with that - that can be the purpose of introductions or marketing material - but out of honesty, just give it the right name.

The specific value of a review consist in the trust you have that that the reviewer has done an impartial assesment for you. There was a scandal recently where it turned out that Sony had printed "reviews" of its own movies. The problem with the Mindcrafts-tests a couple of years ago was precisely that they were felt to be tailormade to put Microsoft in a good light while at the same time hiding this fact (in being a presented as a "test").

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