Actually, I see reviews for gear on the forums all the time. Whenever I need opinions on a certain product, this is one of the first places I go to ask. I guess you're hoping that forum member's reviews could be on the main site, to be more accessible (and just to get more reviews up)?

It would be neat, especially if the companies would lend their new products to people on this forum, and we could pass things around to test under various conditions, mailing them to each other. That would be so fun. When the tests were over we could just mail back the gear to the company along with our review. But the only way that would work is if the companies actually value what we think, the way they value Doug.