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Originally Posted by fresh
Well you wont give any wrong information on that review site, check the details, see what other big reviewers think about the site.
My guess it would be the easiest with reality sites.
Of course it wont be very decent review, but if you work smart you can post something useful for surfers  |
Well, whether it works or not (and I'm sure it can), I still think it's a borderline scam - at least if you pretend you actually know what you're talking about.
"Reviewing" a site based solely on the tour, a bit of sample content and any specific details you may be "borrowing" from actual review sites, is likely not telling the surfer a whole lot more than what he could figure out on his own without joining the site.
Afterall, without seeing the member area you don't really have a clue what you're talking about - just as if you were pretending to review a book without reading it, or a movie without watching it (though admittedly it's probably a bit easier to find something to say that may apply to a porn site without having seen it, than it is to do the same about a 600 pages book without having read it
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Do I sound a bit pissed?
Well, I am - not because doing fake reviews might cost the fake reviewers(?) less than what I pay (I can count the times where I felt a membership was a complete waste of money, as a surfer and/or as a webmaster, on a couple of hands), or because it might be a bit easier to slap together a fake review (not necessarily much easier though, unless it's ultra short - you gotta spend some time making stuff up afterall, I can just use the facts), but because I feel it is what I called it above - a scam.
Not a really nasty, malignant, deceiving scam, but a scam nonetheless. And certainly not a review. Or at least only a review of the paysite tour - and any idiot can take a look at that one himself.
Call it "extensive site descriptions" and I probably wouldn't be pissed
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