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Posted 2004-06-10, 02:38 PM
in reply to Medieval Bob's post "Raz's Reviews"
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Medieval Bob said:
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Raz's reviews are thorough, and trustworthy, as... well... He's more real to me than a handle in a magazine. He's a handle on a forum that I've been a member of for a couple of years. Flawed logic, it is, but sometimes it is sufficient.
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It's not really flawed. To most readers, a columnist in a magazine is a black box: Games go in, and reviews come out; however, an active user on a forum is a gray box: you've seen and provided inputs and seen the outputs, and have a general idea of the processes between them. To put it more simply, it's a matter of familiarity: Your interaction with the columnist is limited to one or two articles a month; your interaction with an active forum member, on the other hand, is quite extensive,
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