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They're different because they can be to sites that would otherwise be offtopic.

I imagine a number of people blindly up vote the RMS posts to encourage the trend, though I'd be curious to see the data behind this compared to other post types.

Reviewing of startups and providing various perspectives is something very special this community offers for starting entrepreneurs. We should take care to keep that interesting and not to devalue it by too many / spammy posts.