It has come to my attention that Gear talk, one of my favorite forum sections, is slowly deteriorating into more of a "place to chat" than a legit forum, basically everyone asks personal recommendations on gear, 90% of the answers given to them are based on reviews or simple facts that can be found on google in less than 0.37 seconds...
Allow me to give an example:
Armada alpha 1 vs salomon twentytwelve vs line blend
or
Caylor, jj, s7 or opus
(these are all legit threads)
In all these threads i feel like i'd get a lot more info by just reading reviews of those skis than listening to people bickering about what's the best ski for the OP, while the OP hasn't probably even given us all his information (heights, weight, skiing style, personal preference, location, etc...)
+ i'm sure that 90% of NS will tell that On3p is quality and for example HEAD is crap, while they probably haven't even ridden both skis, or are basing their comments on 1 good/bad experience with these brands, probably not even on the skis that they're talking about right then ...
or another one; "where should i mount my skis?"
if we have a good base of reviews where people also list their heigh/weight and mounting spot we can build up a really valuable database...
Or how big is an xl oakley fari jacket ?
-> an accurate review could easily help the op out ...
anyways, i'm gonna stop here, i think you get my point.... now we just need to find a way to direct more traffic away from GT and into Gear reviews...
Sparknotes:
NS has a great gear review system set up that could answer a lot of the geartalk threads, we just need to find a way to direct more traffic there, and have more people write good reviews about their gear ....
