As earlier on the Site's Review 'policy' seems to be somwhat misunderstood (or misinterpreted) perhaps its useful to clarify the matter?

Firstly, our (recently-retired) Reviews Manger, Bill Plunk completely revised the Site's policy on Review submissions in the following areas:

1) The Site welcomes Reviews from EVERYONE.

2) There are two kinds of Reviews - USER-SUBMITTED (when an individual submits a product they've bought as a Site-Review) or MANUFACTURER-SUPPLIED (When a manufacturer sends material for review by the site where it's then sent out to suitably qualified candidates

Those who have had a Review or Feature published on the site immediately get access to the Contributors Forum - this exists for the review managers to keep track of pending Reviews and offer up items which have arrived from manufacturers. Quite often there will be a thread posted in the main Forums as well - particularly when we're looking for new Reviewers or there's a particularly specialized area which needs people.

The policy of the Site is clear. We WELCOME un-solicited Reviews from anyone and EVERYONE. There's NO closed-shop or any favorotism applied.

Even though we DO get a lot of material provided for Review, we don't get everything that comes onto the market. If you've just bought a new kit, book, tool or AM set, we'd love to see it featured on the Review pages.

However, we don't just want NEW releases. Anything that's still available is equally welcome.

So, how does one submit an item for Review? Simplicity itself. Go to the Reviews Submissions Page here and add your Review:

Reviews Submission Page (LINK)

As to images, contact:

James Bella (LINKED)

If you want some tips as to starting your first Review, go here:

HERE (LINK)

Thanks for posting this Jim!

Fair Dinkum.

Thank you for posting this, Jim. I'm a bit short of time at the moment to make a proper post, I just want to add a couple of things.......

Images can also be sent to armorama.reviews(at)kitmaker.net and they will be redirected to my email.

I try to respond within 24 hrs. that images and/or text has been received, so if you don't hear from me within a reasonable amount of time please contact me.

Not questioning what you've said Jim, bit ive submitted 2 reviews before and have had them published as well as a photo feature,but I dont seem to get access to the contributer forum. Is it just reserved for people who have done lot of reviews and features?? Im not particularly bothered, its just I often see a few things come up that I think id be capable of reviewing.

Rob, the reason you haven't gor 'access' is because of the dates of your Reviews. If someone hasn't published something for a while (60 days I think?) you don't get access. That doesn't mean you CAN'T submit a Review - in fact we'd be delighted to see you back amongst the Reviewers (Hint, HInt! )

It's longer than 60 days Jim I think it might be as long as six months.

Dated 04 December 07:




Based on that (in the Contributor's Forum - Introduction), I would assume that if the review/feature is less than a year old, access should still be there and remain until the latest review/feature one has had published is over one year old.

Mike

Mike has it correct, the timespan is 1 Review or Feature within the past 12 months. It's a rolling evaluation, so if you allow 12 months to go by without submitting anything, the access expires. Those that have the active access can be easily identified by the Contributor medal in their posting header and, if you hold your mouse over that, it displays a message saying "this person has contributed written articles for Armorama within the past year".

Ah clears that up then, cheers! I better get off my butt then and get some reviews done, I got a pile of stuff here that needs reviewing

I feel it important to also mention that simply because there is already a review of a kit on Kitmaker, doesn't mean you cannot submit your own review (findings, opinion, photos) of the same kit. Even more so if your opinion varies.