Supplement Reviews In Forums. Why Bother?
Having the option of a forum for people to review the multitude of supplements that are available out there and theoreticaly sounds like it would be a good idea and would be a great help for anyone who is looking to start taking some supplements but just doesn’t know where to begin. However, there seems to exist a very large cult of specially challenged, cyber-geek, bodybuilding spectator’s who feel the need to storm these forums and cut on and bad mouth the legit bodybuilding/fitness competitors who write reviews in these forums and also the supplements they are recommending. Just an example. I wrote in a forum regarding supreme protein bars which happen to be my favorite and I liked the nutritional profile, and really liked the taste of them compared to so many other protein bars on the market that I’ve tried. Right away some cyber-geek gets on the horn and writes how pathetic it is to try to promote Averge-Joes’s bars on a forum and represent some other company like that and how misleading that is and how much is Average Joe paying you to promote their products, and they suck and they’re a bunch of crooks, blah-blah-blah, then he started blabbing quotes that Benjamin Franklin said, blah-blah-blah! What the f***! I had a few things to say to that. First off, Average Joe does not make supreme protein bars! They sell them, big deal, so do a thousand other companies including the local 7-11’s. Supreme Inc. manufactures them. Now if I was working for another company trying to promote their products, why in hell would I be recommending a product that costs $2-3$? I wouldn’t! I’d recommend the product that costs $100.00 a piece. Bars are the least profitable item for any supplement company to sell. Then what the f*** does Benjamin Franklin have to do with protein bars? Was he a bodybuilder? Did he have something to do with the protein revolution or something? Judging by that big double chin he was sporting, I’d say he don’t have a damn thing to do with either or! Then I’ve wrote some good reviews about the Gaspari products I like and right away you have cyber-geeks on there accusing me of working for Gaspari and then bad mouthing the products, saying they don’t work, blah-blah-blah. The forums are meant to help people through the knowledgable experience of others who have tried products and used them the way they were supposed to be used and report their experience (positive or negative.) For the cyber-geeks who want to play the devil’s specially challenged advocate just for the sake of ripping on a product or an honest person who has actually used the product, then I say to you cyber-geekazoids, stay the hell off of bodybuilding forums! You’ve got nothing to do with bodybuilding or fitness, you haven’t even tried the products your ripping on so f-off, and go find some microsoft forum to whine and cry on! Let people have the option to hear honest reviews about products they’re interested by people that have actually used the products and used them the way they should be used.
April 12, 2008 at 5:09 pm
Couldn’t agree more. About the only threads that seem to have minimal loud mouths are the supplement logs because they’re going day to day and writing opinions versus a single statement that they do or don’t work. I’ve done a couple logs with good feedback. Anymore though I just stick to replying when asked instead of starting things, or I’ll just put the review in my profile and wish people had the good sense to read my whole profile first and see it before asking questions. Side note, I love the Supreme bars, too.