1) Yes, we need separate forums for "Official Reviews" and "Member Reviews." This establishes the line between official site opinion and member opinion.

2) Here's my take on the whole "request" matter: They should send out an open request to all the moderators and administrators. Each of us will read the review (in its entirety), and will decide whether or not the review is substantial and informative enough to be posted as an Official Review (majority rule). Seem's like the best solution. A member posting their review in the "Official Reviews" forums without said review being approved should be strictly prohibited.

If such an organization isn't possible (i.e., all the mods can't get their opinion of the review within the first three days of the request being sent), then we should assign one or two mods with this duty of reviewing the reviews (to expedite the process). I personally prefer the power of the analysis of likely Official Reviews to be in the hands of two or less, especially with the influx of games coming out on a monthly basis.

On the flip side, if we mods seem to like a review that a member has posted in the "Member Reviews" forum, then we can simply notify the author of said review that we would like to feature their review as an official one.

3) Criteria? Well, I can think of a few things... It should be thorough and should be coherent. Grammar is especially important. If we are going to consider these reviews official, they have to look and sound professional like reviews on the larger gaming websites.

When an official review is posted, we should also link to reviews (of the same game relating to the aforementioned official review) posted by members in the review and have a small excerpt from their review, as well as the ratings. This, in effect, would create a sort of "Community Opinion" effect. Also, it allows for more public advertisement of our member reviews if they are mentioned in the same area as the official review. Maybe even a section on the front page listing the latest member reviews. We should try to stress the TouchDS Community as much as possible.

Note that this should apply to ANY review posted as official. It's not limited to member-submitted official reviews.

4) Frequency would be depenant on the amount of games coming out. Generally, if we can have one new review every two weeks or so, we'll be in good shape (although 1 new review every week is optimal). To allow such a frequency, though, we'll need to be dependant on our community as well as ourselves (mods). It's much easier to share the workload amongst a group of people who volunteer rather than being dependant on a few people to review all the games coming out.

This also helps if a member obtains an obscure title that isn't "popular." If they write a member review and it is up to par, we can request to use their review as an official review, seeing as how an obscure title wouldn't be immediately reviewable by the majority of the community (Such as Trauma Centre as opposed to Mario Kart, where only a few to one people/person will have Trauma Centre, and the majority of the members will have Mario Kart).

Sorry to be so lengthy in my recommendations. I just felt that I should get the point (and, in turn, my opinion) across.