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Damn, I am late again! Hey, GameGear, I know I kind of take more care of the forum stuff, but I wouldn't mind to hear about other things. You still have my e-mail, right?

Let's face it, we holded the reviews pretty well locking them up, but they had bias- there are a lot of opinions about blaster performances, and we wrote what we could. I remember, it is even in my talk page- my first question here was about reviews and why they were locked. If I may paraphrase you:

"Hey, the review was deleted because of the fact that our reviews have to be made by administrators here and in third-person perspective in order to prevent bias. We also use a specified template, which causes reviews to look like this. They all use the same format.[...]if you would like to add a review or request a review to be added, then you can, and if it follows the format and can be backed up with video or blog evidence to support claims, then we will add it."

After that, I made my first review at the Crossfire Bow page, which was... em... exaggerated. You see? Even if I followed the rules, the review still had some personal opinion in it.

But there is the thing: check the last phrase. A good review needs to be backed up with evidences- which sometimes we did, sometimes we didn't. And the reviews... they did their jobs, didn't they?

I am not comfortable about just throwing some links here and there. I would prefer to take some references, write a small summary and THEN redirect the readers to a list of blogs, in which they would choose one of their preference. We can keep the reviews without bias if we do that.

But about the list of blogs... we will need permission, right?