Mike, I don't doubt your personal integrity or judgment, but if a person looks at RCU reviews as a whole, there are patterns that jump out. Things such as the above, reviewers dropping subtle (and not so subtle...) hints in the forums that if a person wants the real scoop on a product they should send a PM, and reviews that are so devoid of actual thought that they're merely pretty pictures and kind adjectives. RCU's review system really has no merit, and Marc and Michael should be ashamed of it. I was more involved when they launched the program, and I recall all the denials that it would be like print magazine reviews. How many print articles were never published for the same reasons you listed above?

RCU owes a duty of trust to its members, and that trust is regularly violated in RCU reveiws.

Out of curiosity, why didn't you talk about performance as compared to system specs? That sort of information is truly useful to readers.