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Post by MartinT on Apr 27, 2017 9:05:52 GMT
This isn't helped by the way some forums, in varying degrees, see their membership as an asset to be marketed to the industry. Indeed, I am rather shocked at how some forums have thrown impartiality out of the window in favour of making revenues from the trade for 'advertorials' disguised as reviews, or to be given their very own forum section. TAS will always remain a profit-free forum for enthusiasts to exchange ideas and experience. |
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Post by davidf on Apr 27, 2017 22:40:27 GMT
After yesterday, I'm tempted!  Dish the dirt  Problem is, if I say what I think, some manufacturers or dealers might think I'm talking about them, or another manufacturer or dealer might think I'm talking about a certain other manufacture or dealer, and grass me up - it's all about interpretation, and what I actually meant won't mean a thing. |
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Post by ynwan on Apr 30, 2017 11:43:55 GMT
Forums are both good and bad and irrespective of what people may want they have effectively replaced printed magazines; it's not unheard of for a thread to achieve 50K views and that's something the magazines can only dream of. However, whilst there is a lot of bollocks talked within the industry there is at least as much typed by self-proclaimed experts on said forums. As for the ease of buying second hand, well it has certainly led people to own some very bizarrely matched systems and it certainly looks like some lurch from one badly chosen component to another with an ever increasing level of frustration.
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Post by MartinT on Apr 30, 2017 13:13:01 GMT
The difference is, you don't know what behind the scenes influences magazine writers suffer from, but I know there are freebies and kick-backs going on. Forum posts are, in the main, uninformed but enthusiastic observations which in my book form a mass of opinion which can be valuable for shortlisting.
Forums which have sold out to the trade not included.
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