[QUOTE=I remember reading KR site almost over a year ago, and now I take the reviews with HUGE grains of salt because it's obvious there's a lot of ad revenue coming in which might impact the reviewers opinion. :hippy:[/QUOTE]


Thank you for the feedback, it's good to understand your perceptions of our site and reviews has changed. I will always appreciate further insight if and when you want to offer it ([email protected]). :thumbsup:

To your point I want to make sure we are very clear on how we operate. We were approached by two dispensaries asking to advertise and we didn't. They kept asking and we decided that it wasn't a bad thing, it will help us further our mission, afford testing in the future, sponsor charity events, etc. so we built the ad admin into our site. I want everyone to take note of who has advertised on our site and the grades they have been given. CAM was the first to pay us, they have NEVER received an "A" and have 2 "B" grades to date. The Releaf Center has not advertised with us, they have received back to back "A" grades. Delta 9 advertises with us, they have one of the 4 "C+" grades we've given out of 100 strains. We've actually disallowed reviewsers from reviewing certain stuff because they have become friends with the owners.

Obviously people react differently and there is no way to have a review without incorporating one's opinion. If a person doesn't like our opinion and finds they consistently get opposing results on their own then they shouldn't read our reviews (funny how some people on hear don't like us and yet continue to have our name in their mouth and know what grades we gave to who - seems like a waste of their time, no?). Other people will find they agree with what we are saying and go to us regularly - and we get emails from those people thanking us for what we do. Some people have truly confused themselves on what we do - we tell people what we think, we don't tell other people what to think. Unfortunately not everyone on this site or others are as mature or as respectful of other humans beings in that light. One avenue we have taken to combat the "personal effect" is to have multiple reviewers review every strain on their own, and then review it on multiple occassions. We still write as an "I" most of the time because it's more personal but if it only did one thing to one person and two or three others it did not, we won't write that into the review, or we will clearly lable it as such "we saw one account of yadda yah".

The reality is that we haven't found another site or group that has visited more dispensaries and smoked more strains from those dispensaries than what we have. So, even if you know that you personally disagree with our "taste and smell" regularly it could still be of benefit to compare our reviews across a sampling of what you may pick up today because we stay consistent and we've collected samples/reviews at such depth and breadth. Everyday we work to enlargen that base so people just like the ones on this forum have more information to use for themselves. It would be a sad day for all of us at KindReviews to learn that any people viewed us as a demigogue and digested our reviews with no thoughts on their own. The whole MMJ movement is about thinking, about alternatives, about options - those are core to KindReviews as well.

PS - KR.com doesn't receive enough monthly revenue to pay for one apartment lease. I could mow lawns for a month and make more money The real bias (and completely understandable) comes from parents talking about their own kids - read growers and shop owners discussing their own product. That's not even debatable.