Ever since, I trusted reviews coming from forums because these are coming from true users and they are independent, like here in Bitcointalk, highly reputable members will not throw their reputation for small money.
Very true, I also believe that reviews that are posted on Bitcontalk are the most legit ones because they are not biased and one doesn't get paid to write only positive review or gets any profit from referral links whatsoever. The reputed users who have been part of the forum for quite sometime won't ruin their reputation for couple of dollars and thus the casinos or platforms that have reviews on this forum can be really genuine ones because the user's who posted the review have done their deep research about the platform before writing the review.
if you want to get positive reviews you have to include payment, I know quite well that you will get good reviews when you have not involved payment but total numbers of reviewers will be limited, those who will reviews ordinarily will reviews because they really wants to know what's your intentions or your objectives before they can do anything with the platform, I know quite well that if you reviews properly and you are comfortable with the site you can patronise them, but a process you notice error you will wait until its corrected.