Others/Editorials by jmke @ 2007-01-04
Awards have been over-used by the hardware review sites all over the world; they are being given to products no matter if they were good or bad. Today we introduce our reader oriented Recommended Tags, with which we like to stay away from Awards, but do want to give our readers some icons to distinguish excellent products reviewed here.
If that would have been the case, I would not have waited 5 years for this.|
Originally Posted by jmke
like we said; these are for the readers; not the mfgrs; I have lots of room on my back, and they can all jump on there without a problem, not doing this to get anybody of my back
If that would have been the case, I would not have waited 5 years for this.the recommended tags are there for the readers, and internally we will discuss heavily to see if a certain piece of hardware deservs it, because yes, we need to avoid putting a tag/logo in every review "just because". |
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Originally Posted by jmke
we do have a bit of added variation with bronze/silver logo's, but I personally like to keep things clean & simple;
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Originally Posted by jmke
don't really have the skills to get them altered to fix them, the 1+1 is do-able for the purpose I guessed?
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- you say awards are useless, but to me it looks like a big part of the reason you'll move to this system is that the sponsors will get off your back (no longer whining about awards). afterall, to them, a recommendation is the same as an award. it might not be a big ringer like "best of test" and "editors choice", but "recommended high end" doesn't sound too bad either, does it? in essence, to prevent this, you'll need to make some pretty dang clear rules amongst reviewers to be selective with those recommendations. or you'll end up as the thing you're trying to fight.
- with the abundance of recommendation classes, it pretty much looks like you'll be putting a recommendation on almost everything, except on the stuff that'll cause your pc to implode. this of course might make you a bit more popular for the sponsors (the people that give you hw to review). once again, you'll need to be sparse with it, or you'll loose credebility.
- the recommendations look pretty neat. just the 1+1 i don't really like. sure, it's "easy calculus" and therefore novice, but still. i wonder if something more humorous might not fit in better? (een fopspeen? ^^ although that's probably not classy enough)
- another possible addendum to the logo is to add "Recommended" into the logo itself. so you dont have to write it above & that way producers/sponsors can use the logo itself without extra hassle. example:
High End
[M]adshrimps
Recommended
i like the initiative, but do realise you're threading on thin ice. so watch your step & take your time. that's better than trying to rush it & do an halfassed job.