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“In exchange for my honest and unbiased review”

33 points by apsec112 11y ago

blairanderson 11y ago
well thats awkward.
- raus22 11y ago
  "I received this product for free or at a discount in exchange for my honest and unbiased review." Free OR at a discount.... I like the, "I don't care about anything I write" disclaimer :)
leeoniya 11y ago
tangentially related: http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?docId=1001250201 http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?docId=1001250201 http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?docId=1001388321 http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?docId=1001388321 go to the actual product pages and read the full reviews, the excerpts on the above pages are weak sauce.
nefitty 11y ago
Is this a thing now, linking to search results for a term? I saw this with image results for exploding hoverboards. I don't like it.
- matheweis 11y ago
  It seems to have triggered the Google captcha for me...
ColbyJackRat 11y ago
I like that reviewers are required to put this on Amazon now, it lets me know which products not to buy.
- fallinghawks 11y ago
  I wish we could filter these out of the review and rating results.
afandian 11y ago
What is this meant to show? I just get a Google homepage. EDIT: From a desktop browser it's a search results page for the given query.
- ghusbands 11y ago
  A search for: site:amazon.com "in exchange for my honest and unbiased review"
Jedd 11y ago
One of my (language) pet peeves is when someone opens with 'Honestly, ...' When it's appropriate I suggest to them that everything they say without that prefix might therefore be assumed to be otherwise. I suggest 'Candidly' or 'Frankly' if they mean they're about to be blunt. Or just avoid any kind of qualification entirely. Usually I'm ignored, of course. But this is a particularly unpleasant arrangement of words -- an inherent and obvious contradiction, whereby independence of bias is claimed in spite of, and in conjunction with, proof of bias. I wonder at the kinds of readers (of reviews or otherwise) who find comfort in such a disclaimer.
- verroq 11y ago
  tbh smh fam
- ghusbands 11y ago
  It's a common idiom indicating straightforwardness. It does not imply a dishonesty in other sentences.
  - Jedd 11y ago
    There's lots of words that mean straightforward (to be frank / blunt / candid / brutal / clear / straightforward / abrupt / etc) but honesty is something else entirely. The comparable phrase 'To tell the truth, ...' is even less ambiguous (yes, it's idiomatic, but that shouldn't let you ignore semantics). As for amazon reviews I rarely expect people to be especially honest -- if they self-assess as being extra honest despite swag, that's less compelling.

33 points by apsec112 11y ago

blairanderson 11y ago

well thats awkward.

raus22 11y ago
"I received this product for free or at a discount in exchange for my honest and unbiased review." Free OR at a discount.... I like the, "I don't care about anything I write" disclaimer :)

leeoniya 11y ago

tangentially related: http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?docId=1001250201 http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?docId=1001250201 http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?docId=1001388321 http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?docId=1001388321 go to the actual product pages and read the full reviews, the excerpts on the above pages are weak sauce.

nefitty 11y ago

Is this a thing now, linking to search results for a term? I saw this with image results for exploding hoverboards. I don't like it.

matheweis 11y ago
It seems to have triggered the Google captcha for me...

ColbyJackRat 11y ago

I like that reviewers are required to put this on Amazon now, it lets me know which products not to buy.

fallinghawks 11y ago
I wish we could filter these out of the review and rating results.

afandian 11y ago

What is this meant to show? I just get a Google homepage. EDIT: From a desktop browser it's a search results page for the given query.

ghusbands 11y ago
A search for: site:amazon.com "in exchange for my honest and unbiased review"

Jedd 11y ago

One of my (language) pet peeves is when someone opens with 'Honestly, ...' When it's appropriate I suggest to them that everything they say without that prefix might therefore be assumed to be otherwise. I suggest 'Candidly' or 'Frankly' if they mean they're about to be blunt. Or just avoid any kind of qualification entirely. Usually I'm ignored, of course. But this is a particularly unpleasant arrangement of words -- an inherent and obvious contradiction, whereby independence of bias is claimed in spite of, and in conjunction with, proof of bias. I wonder at the kinds of readers (of reviews or otherwise) who find comfort in such a disclaimer.

verroq 11y ago
tbh smh fam
ghusbands 11y ago
It's a common idiom indicating straightforwardness. It does not imply a dishonesty in other sentences.
- Jedd 11y ago
  There's lots of words that mean straightforward (to be frank / blunt / candid / brutal / clear / straightforward / abrupt / etc) but honesty is something else entirely. The comparable phrase 'To tell the truth, ...' is even less ambiguous (yes, it's idiomatic, but that shouldn't let you ignore semantics). As for amazon reviews I rarely expect people to be especially honest -- if they self-assess as being extra honest despite swag, that's less compelling.