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I think your concerns are legit, but it's not necessarily the reviewer's fault that they're on …

I think your concerns are legit, but it's not necessarily the reviewer's fault that they're on three deadlines and don't have the time to give your product the care and concern it deserves. It's probably the editor's or the publisher's. I'm a world class writer but I stopped doing it for a living a long time ago. Why? Because as media moved from print to online, the work was devalued. I've worked for 25 cents a word sometimes, which was pretty decent when one 1200 word piece could pay rent back then. Nowadays, writers are offered $25 per article flat with no compensation for rewrites. Staff positions pay badly for too much work but are as coveted as C suite gigs are in the tech world. Maybe more so. So if the reviewer is staff, they might be assigned three or four reviews in a given week on top of other work. If they're freelance, they might have to take on more just to make their rent. …

Original discussionWired Called Our AirGradient Monitor 'Not Recommended' over a Broken Display105 source comments · at import
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Achim from AirGradient here. Good to see that my post has been submitted here. Happy to answer any questions you might have. I spend quite a long time writing this post and it actually helped me to see the bigger picture. How much can we actually trust tech reviews? I am already getting very interesting results from the survey I posted and already planning to write a follow up post.

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> I'm a world class writer This is awkward, but I think you mean ”I'm a world-class writer”.

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> I think your concerns are legit, but it's not necessarily the reviewer's fault that they're on three deadlines and don't have the time to give your product the care and concern it deserves. It's probably the editor's or the publisher's. You wrote it, you don't get to dodge the responsibility like that. Professional integrity still matters. > It's like when I was reviewing albums for $50 a pop: I'd get a stack of them to review and cue up track one and if I didn't get hooked pretty quick, I'd just pop in the next one. That seems unethical. > There's a reason I'd rather make a living as a mediocre coder than a very good writer these days As coders, we also have an ethical responsibility to pushback against code that will harm people. We need more writers to say no to writing stories with insufficient time/resources to do it ethically same as we need more developers who push back against …

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