by brandon_g January 27th 2016, 12:19 am
Kratos wrote:Why can't users do their own reviews?(If we can then ignore this question)
There is no rule against it, though personally to me, doing a review for your own forum kinda defeats the purpose of requesting a review. I mean why do you need to give you suggestions when you can just do it already? If you know about weaknesses to your forum, you can fix them yourself, etc. I mean I believe the whole purpose of a review (as a requester) is to get feedback/input from someone who is not part of your team or administration, in other words so that you find out about weaknesses and strengths of your forum that you or anyone else on your team might realize.
I mean let's face it, we all think our own forums are the best and there little weaknesses and nothing but strengths, that is not even being unrealistic or stubborn or anything, it is just human nature.
My point is: Sometimes there are weaknesses on our forums that we may not even realize existed or there may strengths or areas where our forum could grow and that with just some utilizing could help our forums grow and blossom. The point of requesting a review (atleast in my opinion) is to gain an outsiders perspective of our forums, because by human nature, we can go blind to weaknesses and things on our forum without even realizing that have gone blind to. A review helps us see from others what we can't see as forum owners and Administrators and allows us to fix ir develop some of these things.