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The reviewer responded to my email and asked me to post to the blog on the article.

Interesting that the original review article has no direct link to the blog entry. I looked for one and couldn't find it. He sent me a link:

http://www.fpsmagazine.com/blog/2007/01 ... udio-5.php

He didn't sound "angry" in his email. He said he could respond to me in private if I preferred but he felt a public response opens things up for discussion.

In response to whatever type of site that is... it doesn't matter. His review left things out, made incorrect assumptions and was just bad overall. It lacked any knowledge of the application except for a very cursory look. If he did more than that with it, it doesn't show in the review.

What is the minimum amount of time to use an application before you are qualified to review it? I have no idea.

-vern

heyvern wrote:What is the minimum amount of time to use an application before you are qualified to review it? I have no idea.

Well, for most hardware, you need to send it back within 3 weeks, so I guess that two weeks is the minimum, provided you are skilled enough to be a reviewer for the application (in this case, you need to have used other animation software), otherwise you need to look for skilled users, ask their opinion and use that as the basis of your article, clearly stating what method you used.

As a thought experiment, what if you'd be asked to test mathematical modeling software. If you have no idea what mathematical modeling is, you are not qualified to review such software, however long you can take to review it.

Because there is hardly any software like AS out there, reviewing AS will take more time. Two weeks is not enough, I guess. One month is more likely to be enough to test this software.