Well, since this thread has been thoroughly jacked (no pun intended), I'll give you my two cents about KindReviews.

The post about Cherry Creek Health on KR seemed disingenuous to me, specifically:
You can read our methodology on the About Us page to know that we wonâ??t take money from any dispensary to perform reviews and that we donâ??t grade dispensaries, only medicine. Well the feature page is where we have the opportunity to speak our mind on what excites us for any reason we choose.
I have an email that specifically talks about the advertising rate for the "Featured" space, and let me assure you, it is not cheap. The methodology for that section may have changed, but that statement (to me) gives the impression that either previous or future features were not sponsored, which I think is false.

Review sites absolutely depend on an unbiased reviewer, and so you have to set your standards sky high as an editor. I appreciate the professionalism of KR (they called yesterday to apologize for this thread, who does that?!) but I just can't get on board with their model. I'll continue to submit buds for review, and who knows what will happen to the scores... that's the furthest thing from my mind.

Let me know if I'm way off base with this, too, KR guys. You seem like alright people.