Ok so I have received word that a few ***holes on TA have posing as reviewers for app review sites and PMing devs telling them that they are reviewers for *Insert Site Name Here*. Now some of the TA'ers may actually work for *site name* but the ones I am discussing here are not. What these scammers fail to realize is that they are not just trying to get free promos or whatever, they are also ruining the credibility of the websites. For example, someone posed as a reviewer for my website and PM'd a dev saying that they would write a review in exchange for a promo code. The review was never written and the dev believed our site to be a scam. Now I have made an attempt to fix the trust issue there, but I dunno how its gonna turn out. Now it seems as though developers would be suspicious of people PMing them for promos in exchange for something else (which is against the forum rules btw) but devs cannot always tell. SO my proposition is this: that we create a list of all the people associated with actual review sites, (big or small) and then have the devs check the names of the people who PM them against the "Master List" this way the scammers will not be able to ruin the credibility that others have worked so hard to establish.
Probably a good idea, if a little difficult to pull together and maintain (you'd have to keep track of arrivals and departures for each site in order to keep it accurate). Most if it can probably be culled from the about pages of each site. The hard part would be finding each site; you'd have to create a reasonably comprehensive list or ones left off may end up not getting reviews because of the lack of representation on it -- something they can fix as long as they are aware of its existence, which will be the tough part.
I may email a dev from time to time, asking for a promo. But I never impersonate anyone. That's silly and disrespectful.
See I never I never ask for promos, I always offer the dev a review of their upcoming game(s) and advertising possibilities, if they give me a promo than that's just and added perk. The only time I ask for promos is when I want to hold a giveaway, and the promos are the prizes.
Not all of them. There are plenty of $2-5 games, and a handful that cost more. But while doing this for the cheap games just makes the perpetrators look that much more retarded, it isn't really the point.
That's just wrong! I can say that I am a legit one. Just ask RealInverse And The dev of Ninja Chicken.
i was specifically thinking that someone would say this, I was not trying to advertise my site, hence the *site name* parts of the paragraph. I was just trying to let people know about this bullsh*t that keeps happening, I mean I don't work on *site name* 5 hours a day, and spend hours emailing devs trying to get advertising deals what have you, for nothing. And to have a scammer nullify my work is really annoying.
