[ilrwbwrkhv]

This is great. You can then start seeding products which give you a high cut and then proclaim them as the "best". Basically what Wired and all do now but without the whole article bit and you can claim "knowledge of the public".

[philena]

that's an interesting idea -- we have been seeing this play out successfully as well (like you mentioned, Wired + sponsored youtube videos + etc). though that would be useful for profitability, we're afraid that may compromise our reputability as being the knowledge of the public. instead we're looking for ways where, when we expand to more opinions and reviews, we can robustly filter out those that seem disingenuous / are sponsored. curious as to what you think about this "filtering" out + if you have any ideas of going about this :)

[ilrwbwrkhv]

As long as you don't show blatantly horrible products, your reputation will be fine.

[dawalker]

we'll do our best :)