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When you look at the book reviews on amazon it really looks like amazon doesn't care about integrity in the review system. For example if you search for 'learn
by barking 11y ago
When you look at the book reviews on amazon it really looks like amazon doesn't care about integrity in the review system.
For example if you search for 'learn java', there's a total joke of a book at the top with torrent of fake 5 star reviews.
The first one I read even calls Java, 'the javascript' at one point.
It's an insult to decent authors and to the people who go to the trouble to write reviews that amazon allow this
Edit: I just realised why I found the names of the editor and illustrator familiar!
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- kafkaesque 11y agoI stumbled upon a book by James Franco on Amazon.com a long time ago, and it had a 4-star review on the search page and on the product page. I thought this was bizarre, because I just happened to have read reviews of it on literary and nonliterary sites giving it extremely poor reviews. I clicked on "See all # customer reviews" on the Amazon page and the average rating on top immediately went down to 2 stars. I thought this was a glitch, so I tried to access the product/book page a different way. The same thing happened to all of them. There were always the same amount of reviews, as well. About 6 months later I looked up the book again, and the "mistake" was gone. But I had taken a screenshot of it the first time, and there was only two more reviews. The 4-star average appeared on every page. I look for it now, and it is back at 2 stars like it always was. The book in question is Actors Anonymous.