You don't have to justify anything, W1zz, and much less to someone unable to understand them to begin with. He more or less suggested that your GTX 660 reviews were not reliable because the 4 of them were showing different numbers for other cards.
Dont forget the time you were comparing a Fermi and a Kepler in Compute Power on a OpenCL bench and kept on insisting that it was the same test but the discription on that top clearly stated different benching details.
Thats was classic
Oh no, now you'll link that Steam Hardware Survey again for the 1millionth time.
you have to be professional. which means (in that order) reliable, respect ndas, have technical knowledge, have significant traffic, treat their stuff fairly.
most products that companies send out for review are "good". they do check that first internally. i'm not sure why some people are so obsessed with the ratings number, but what score should a product get that works and that works great for a majority of users? maybe just translate the percentage of happy users into a score? how far would that be from the numbers we are giving?
besides, if you dont like our scoring system, just dont look at it and read the conclusion. or don't read the conclusion and look at the data - everything is there.
have you read my powercolor devil 13 review? or the gtx 590 ? where do you see that back-scratching? yes, powercolor will send me more products.
tpu is financially stable
I was speaking in a braud terms of the state of reviewers.
Being professional isnt exclusive to giving a high score. 0-10 scales are the same as bronze, silver, gold, editors choice, etc, etc... There there to satify someone and give a general assumption of a grade of said product. You could easy just render the 0-6 from the 0-10 and dump that or add a decimal to expand the grading scale.
You can even go as far as to add a user choice scale like some games reviewer do.
When I speak of financially stable is that reviews dont relly on contributions by vendors. Being able to independantly purchase said review product and not sacrifice its professional relationship with the company. There not exclusive. Buy said product on release and sell it or donate it to charity but your not beholden to that company if it chooses to discontine providing its product for review in exchange for your traffic.
Which is the bottom line to them positive exposure.
Perfect example was Nvidia stopped sending out sample to reviewers after 670. Reveiwers had to get those by other means if they wanted to provide benchmarks for said product. Review site had to due with AIB OC products and down clock them. As far as I know none have bought a ref desing to test aside a few that said were able to obtain one by other means but wouldnt disclose details just results which could just aswell be a down-clocked AIB oc product.
Just one of the latest examples if your not financially stable and independant.