What if it's not their job? Who determines that?
That is, what if their editor is fine with them giving it their best shot, and if they can't bring themselves to finish, as long as they gave it their best shot and they disclose that in their review, are totally cool with it, and let it go ahead?
Is it still their "job" anyway despite it clearly not being a term of employment, their boss being cool with it, and being paid for the work they did do and everything being allowed to go ahead? Who's to determine thst in that case when both employee and employer say otherwise?
Like, the point being that reviewers are s very diverse group. Some are freelance and write for multiple sites. Some are lucky enough to primarily write for just one. Some are paid a salary. Others are paid per word of their review or a fraction of ad proceeds and thsts it. And everything in between.
Tyst such a diverse group of people can be grouped together so easily, that it could definitely be said that this or that I'd part of the "job" for reviewers I'm general when how they're paid or what they are or are not paid for is completely all over the map and varies rapidly depending on the site or even individual were talking about, tyst people still feel they can definitively say this or that is in fact part of the job of all reviewers, to not only speak for such a large group but tell all of them what their job is or isn't is just crazy to me.
Because yeah, that might be absolutely required at one place, and that's cool if so. But it could just as easily be fine somewhere else, and that's also cool if that's their decision as long as they're open about that, and it doesn't just magically become part of their job anyway as it's not my place to say that and it clearly isn't at that point.
And that's why I hate that argument so much: I get why people might instinctively say that, but in reality, it depends. And taking something that depends, and generalizing it to the whole group and insisting it applies to them all regardless is silly to me. It's just neither here nor there, 'cause at some places, it clearly isn't a hard-and-fast rule of their employment, that their editors can be cool with it, which is part of the reason we're talking about this in the first place.
So it's clearly not that simple as it's "just part of their job" as if it were everyone who ever did that or considered doing so would be fired, so it's clearly not that simple, and so I really wish people would stop treading out the "it's their job" one-liner as if it were because however one feels about it, whether one personally likes it or not, it's clearly not so simple and that's neither here nor there because of that.
