Comments on: Poor review with heartwarming community response http://proyvind.net/wordpress/?p=60 ..feeding the attention whore within Wed, 30 Dec 2009 20:44:02 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: wobo http://proyvind.net/wordpress/?p=60&cpage=1#comment-56 wobo Wed, 30 Dec 2009 20:44:02 +0000 http://proyvind.net/wordpress/?p=60#comment-56 Such bad reviews are often the result of authors who do not know anything about Mandriva Linux and do not take their time to look for infos. Sometimes such authors also have their own opinion about how a Linux distribution should be. As nice as all theose comments are, the damage done (as Jackson Browne would say). To avoid this Mandriva users should write their own reviews and offer them to sites who publish reviews, to online magazines and the print media. If such a review is straight, pointing at the strong AND the weak points and does not sound like a fan-boy's praise, many editors will accept such reviews. They bring a benefit for the reader, the media, for the author and for the distribution. It's a win:win for all. After reading such a bad review about Mandriva 2008.1 another community member and I had this idea and offered it to the chief editor of the German print magazine LinuxUser. Since then he keeps asking for a new review whenever a new release is out. The current review shows 5 pages including screenshots and is not only published in the print edition but also in the online edition. And we even get paid! :) Now, how about it - start nagging your magazine's editors! Such bad reviews are often the result of authors who do not know anything about Mandriva Linux and do not take their time to look for infos. Sometimes such authors also have their own opinion about how a Linux distribution should be. As nice as all theose comments are, the damage done (as Jackson Browne would say).

To avoid this Mandriva users should write their own reviews and offer them to sites who publish reviews, to online magazines and the print media. If such a review is straight, pointing at the strong AND the weak points and does not sound like a fan-boy’s praise, many editors will accept such reviews. They bring a benefit for the reader, the media, for the author and for the distribution. It’s a win:win for all.

After reading such a bad review about Mandriva 2008.1 another community member and I had this idea and offered it to the chief editor of the German print magazine LinuxUser. Since then he keeps asking for a new review whenever a new release is out. The current review shows 5 pages including screenshots and is not only published in the print edition but also in the online edition.
And we even get paid! :)

Now, how about it – start nagging your magazine’s editors!

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