Spotting self-promotion

It's become--alas--quite common for developers to review their own software, which undermines the very idea of a review.

It'd be useful to spot self-promoting reviews, to provide a more balanced idea of software quality to end users.

Ohloh could easily mark (via CSS fo example) reviews by developers affiliated with a project as contributors. Obviously, nothing prevents user X from registering a second account Y to write an "independent" review of his/her product. But this CSS-trick could be a first approximation to spot blatant marketing.

What do you think?

The problem is where do you draw the line between an active user and a developer.

I've just reviewed DBIx::Class, but I've committed a couple of tiny patches - does that mean I'm biased ?

I also use a variety of other codebases heavily, and the ones I use the most I tend to commit or send patches to list - several projects have my patches in, but I didn't commit them - can I review them as unbiased ?

With Free Software, there should be no line drawn between users and developers :-)