In praise of opinionated reviews

[zridling]

Here's a thought. Why not — once a year — consider highly opinionated reviews?

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[TucknDar]

Aren't all reviews rather opinionated?

[justice]

Personally, I associate fanboy reviews with deluded or unbalanced reviews, i don't think this should  be confused with opinionated? You can write an opinionated balanced fair review.

[zridling]

Perhaps, but they don't necessarily try to be. This type of review would favor partiality over impartiality.

[Merida]

At least fanboys do know the favoured application very well.

[tranglos]

Here's a thought. Why not — once a year — consider highly opinionated reviews?

How about opinionated critical reviews?

I've refrained from posting reviews a few times, since what I'm good at is fault-finding, and I can berate software to no end, including some DC favorites, which I think suffer from major, major flaws (hello UltraEdit, hello PowerGrep you awful, misshapen critters...) If a piece of software deserves a good dressing down, I can deliver that in spades

As for fanboyish reviews, I don't think I've been sufficiently awed by any new program in a long time. Other than Total Commander, which is pure perfection of course!

[f0dder]

As for fanboyish reviews, I don't think I've been sufficiently awed by any new program in a long time. Other than Total Commander, which is pure perfection of course!

Why on earth use TC when there's xplorer²?

[superboyac]

If this is simply in the name of fun, I'm all for it.  Would I be able to irrationally praise and bash certain software?  I would kind of enjoy that, in a sick way.

[tinjaw]

This thread was mentioned in another here on DC. I thought I would resurrect it to add...

I'll go cross-post this over there... but you haven't seen opinionated reviews until you have watched Zero Punctuation

I won't give you any hints. Just don't watch while you are drinking anything unless you have one of those plastic covers on your keyboard and a splash guard on your monitor.