[Rant] Linus Like & Slick's Picks

[Jerry1Gman]

The talk on some Live Streams regarding "Linus Likes & Slick's Picks" has got me thinking that it might become to cumbersome to rate products as soon as they come out.

A situation:

So lets say that two products come out, item A is great, receives the 'LMG Award" only because item B has serious but simple issues. The video of item A receiving the award gets publish, item B or all the other losers don't have to be mentioned. A month or so later item B update gets released to the public.

Do you take back item A award? Remove the video?

Publish item B.2 reviving the award? Now two competing products have the same award. Which now makes the award watered down, just for show and meaningless.

Maybe item B is known for being prompted with their up dates. Should everything be delayed for something that may or may not be released? How long should we wait? Or item B.2 is/was under NDA and you have to 'pretend' it's never coming out. But the audience wants item A to get the award, maybe to push item B to update.

The problem:

Compare to a lot of other consumer products, tech items get out dated quick. Yet, you want to give enough time for the manufactures to update their items and/or the consumer to adjust to the new tech.

My solution:

Establish a 'Hall of Fame" but have more current items in it then the traditional hall of fames. This can be accomplished by having a requirement that items must have been released to the public at between 1 to 3 years ago. Which is still a long time in the tech world but not to long were it is irreverent to recommend to buy today. You can make it a big thing, every quarter can have an induction night for 3 different categories every time. Or at the end of every month can be a different but very broad category. Any way, multiple items can be inducted. This would also allow you to have two competing items receiving attention without tarnishing the award.

 

[prolemur]

Sorry, but I think this is a bad idea.

[Fetzie]

I don't really see why an award would only be given to a single product at any one time. Not all products are the best for everybody; case in point, a mouse that is great for Slick is probably way to big for Linus.

[Samdb]

This wouldn't really work.

[_ASSASSIN_]

the one problem I have with TTL's review is when you look at a review 4-6 months later, the product can completely change depending on firmware, just look at the 7950, it's suddenly better than the 660ti that it competed with when the 600 series came out

if they are doing awards, they should do it like TTL in the aspect where they have a "performance" award for best performance but not best for the price, and awards that vary for certain things

[Morfy]

I can't get your point here, your ideas are all over the place, sorry.

[Xorbot]

I heard of the idea last stream.  I have to admit my initial impression is that the Linus Likes and Slick's Picks would be popular in the beginning, then it would effectively come to a halt thereafter.  Once they list all of the things they like, it is not likely that new "Likes + Picks" would be made for years.

 

An example is this.  Linus and Slick likes Noctua fans.  That would probably not ever change for years.  So it's great that these Noctua fans become listed as officially "liked", but then no change for 5 years.

 

The only way to keep the content fresh over time is to constantly "like + pick" things each week in perpetuity.  I suppose by definition, as time goes on, they will theoretically "like + pick" everything in existence.