Shannon's Journal Discussion Thread, Vol. 5

[Shannon]

But what I would like to see in the shop is a certain "people who used this program had the following benefits after usage of 3-6 months:" and then a list. At the moment it is just a list of goals what the program tries to achieve but not a list of the goals that were achieved. I know it's not easy to get field data and feedback from customers to make such a list. But maybe also for people here on the forum, if they use a program for long enough and they write a detailed review they get a $10 voucher for the shop or something like that. I know that might also mislead people that try to take advantage of that but if they bought a program and they can verify it, then you can allow it to them. Maybe only reviews for the latest generation or 5.5 and up. I don't know. I think there are a lot of intelligent supportive forum users that want you to succeed, Shannon, maybe we can help coming up with ideas and you can choose what you like or just ignore it.

Unfortunately, there is no way to do this.  Without incentivising it, we won't get the reports, and if we do incentivize it we (and our customers) have no way to know it's genuine.  Nobody is going to believe "paid for" reports anyway, and that would only serve to damage our reputation and trust the public has for us.  Believe me, we have been through every possible angle on this, and there is no good solution there that we can see.