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Originally Posted by venus
I do what my members ask of me, not some review site. I will never know how you think you can speak for my customers and I will never impliment anything your reviewers suggest for the simple reason, I want to stay in business.
This is why I don't cooperate with your site any more and will not give them a password to my site.
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Hey Venus,
We have your email sitting here as well that we'll get back to, but I wanted to post here too since I saw you in the thread. I think this has been brought up a bit before in a roundabout way, but we basically have to review the site from an everyday Joe perspective, and keep in mind all the other sites we look at for a fair comparison. I agree with your points 100%, and I think anyone else would too. We're not here to tell your members what they like or don't like, or why they shouldn't join your site. Your members already enjoy your site and have no need for our services. We're here to tell our own users what we thought of your site (which is still different than what they will think for sure). That's not to say they will or won't agree with us, but it's a solid point for comparison and about the best we can do.
We look at about 40 sites a week for review purposes in one form or another, and a bunch more for non-review purposes to keep our listings up to date. After all those sites, we're always craving unique content as much as possible to set one site apart from another. That's not to say you shouldn't offer other material, especially if your members are requesting it, but when we didn't find as much of the content we love most, we of course had to mention it. To some people that will matter, to a lot of others it won't at all. All we can do on our end is review sites as consistently as possible, and a if a user appreciates our method, they'll probably stick around. As people mentioned, our site isn't the be all, end all of anything. We're just here to do what we do and keep our business going the best we know how. We're very understanding when sites may not want to get involved with what we do, and of course we'll set it up so you won't get any more emails from us unless you tell us otherwise.