I got an NB from another poster who asked if he could do a pre-release spoiler-free review of the book. He said Ben was okay with it. We're going to run that as our RAFO review.
It is understandable that RAFO will want to do an 'official' review, as Dragonmount has done, but there are quite a few people here who run blogs or have contacts with Orbit or Tor who will be getting pre-release review copies, such as myself, Ken, Pat, Larry, maybe a few others. Saying you can only have one review before release and that's it seems to be somewhat limiting.
I think that pre-release information makes the board susceptible to hoaxing and half-truths. I'm sure some people are getting early copies, but others will post falsehoods and undermine the credibility of the board, making RAFO the centre for all that is false.
I don't remember this happening on a large scale for the previous books in the series. And I would hope that after, in my case, five years of posting accurate pre-release reviews of hundreds of other books, that my honesty would not be called into question, let alone other posters of considerably longer service on Wotmania.
I've got an open mind about it though.. you can NB me if you want and we can formulate a strategy if you're really keen to post small scraps before the release of the book.
What would the policy be on links to offsite reviews, either to our blogs or to the newspaper/official news outlets that will be doing pre-release reviews of the book?
I think I'll put a survey out asking people if I should make a post which contains pre-release reviews of the book. If the response is overwhelmingly positive, I'll do it, but if people object, I won't.
I think you're a very reliable poster, but I know that other posters will post their review which will be a giant fabrication, and lead to all sorts of mayhem.
A pre-release post might be the answer, but I'll ask the board what they think of it first.
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The Gathering Storm - Information and Spoiler Policy
- 13/09/2009 09:11:21 AM
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Cadsuane dies? Semirhage commits suicide? Egwene and Elaida duel? Rand can't channel?
- 13/09/2009 10:44:46 PM
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As a rule I avoid the boards around prerelease times regardless *NM*
- 14/09/2009 06:27:05 AM
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While I agree with what you are trying to accomplish
- 14/09/2009 03:09:20 PM
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No. This must be strictly enforced. And the message that it will be strict must be in the language *NM*
- 25/09/2009 06:09:57 AM
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Bastard.
Silly posters, everyone knows Cadsuane doesn't die before she gets married.
- 15/09/2009 02:32:51 AM
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Good, that means I can visit the site safely
- 15/09/2009 08:32:22 PM
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If you have not read it by Oct 28, you are an inferior species of fan and should not be here. *NM*
- 15/09/2009 11:09:04 PM
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- 18/09/2009 05:28:12 PM
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- 18/09/2009 05:28:12 PM
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Well, I'm getting a review copy, so can you elaborate on the rules for that?
- 17/09/2009 07:58:37 PM
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I think pre-release info is pretty much banned
- 18/09/2009 07:29:56 AM
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I'm a bit concerned by this.
- 19/09/2009 04:23:15 PM
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Re: I'm a bit concerned by this.
- 19/09/2009 04:39:49 PM
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You already made a post about reviews for TGS and we were overwhelmingly in favor of it
- 14/10/2009 07:40:34 AM
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Please don't restrict this too much
- 14/10/2009 07:49:27 AM
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Re: Please don't restrict this too much
- 14/10/2009 01:06:08 PM
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going to have to disagree with you here
- 17/10/2009 07:31:00 AM
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People have the book already-- it is time to put up a review thread
- 18/10/2009 02:55:37 AM
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