If I didn’t love reviewing so much I’d have given it up by now. I don’t get why people literally *demand* a review and then throw a temper tantrum when you don’t tell them how trendy they are. And for once I’m not talking about yoursite.nu…
When someone says “HONESTY PLEASE” (just like that, in capital letters) and then says “be honest” (actually underlined, but I’m not using deprecated tags here :P ) I tend to assume that this person wants me to tell them, honestly, what their site looks like in my opinion. What works, and what doesn’t work. What’s practical, functional and accessible. No, on the contrary, I should have learned by now that it means “be honest, unless it means telling me something I don’t want to hear“.
When someone has in the range of 15 JavaScripts on a page I’m going to tell them they need their head testing (err, not quite like that). When someone is using a .png (of the Backstreet Boys no less) I’m going to tell them that it’s not practical, and lacks originality. When someone has two tags and a whole stream of pointless meta tags, I’m going to tell them how to fix it.
I don’t get it. Maybe you can enlighten me. I spend a fair while writing down all of these bugs, errors, etc and *then* I get told I’m being “too honest”. How the fork can anyone be too honest? If you don’t want people to tell you what is wrong with your site: DON’T ASK FOR A REVIEW.
Maybe I should stick to doing unrequested reviews. At least then the owners are a little justified in being annoyed at my review.