The Philosopher,
I welcome and applaud the approach of MW and The Philosopher towards the new Sports book review part of the website.
From an advertisers point of view to be reviewed objectively, for the product, value, service, and loyalty we provide our clients is much more valuable than by how much money we pay in advertising fees.
This approach will certainly set MW apart from all other similar sites.
Advertising $$$$ should have no bearing in the outcome or the time of a review.
The value to advertisers from sites like this, is the readers being drawn back to the site to have input and opinions on subjects in the industry, and the more quality content MW provides increases the flow through of readers and posters to the site which gives the ultimate benefit back to the advertisers.
To further that line of thinking, I agree that option #2 is the best way forward for readers, posters and advertisers, however I would add that the readers and posters are the backbone of this site, without them there is no site. So I would maybe add that a survey of posters of some description of say the top 20-30 sites they would like reviewed first could be done, then tabulated and that would give The Philosopher a solid starting point of what the readers and posters want to see. These could be done in total random order so you are covering both bases.
Once again this is a great idea and I look forward to seeing the developments.
I appologize for the long post
Thank You
Matt
www.direcbet.com matt@direcbet.com