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I actually avoid the reviews with photos as 99% of the time they end with "I got this product for my fair and unbiased appraisal" or somesuch. I've never quite
by _puk 10y ago
I actually avoid the reviews with photos as 99% of the time they end with "I got this product for my fair and unbiased appraisal" or somesuch.
I've never quite got around to writing a browser plugin that excludes any review that have such a statement, and / or builds up a database of reviewers that are trustworthy on amazon.
The guys in the Top x of reviewers, who receive all this crap to review, basically it's their living, they aren't going to start bad mouthing it.
Maybe take the star rating of each review within a month of a new listing and then compare the average 6 months later to see how shill those initial reviewers are.
- zerocrates 10y ago> Maybe take the star rating of each review within a month of a new listing and then compare the average 6 months later to see how shill those initial reviewers are. Steam just updated its user review system to do just this: it shows both the overall rate of positive reviews as it did before, but also the positive rate in the last 30 days. Now, their prime motivation was probably more to do with things like patches (or the lack thereof), but it would probably do a pretty good job of counteracting paid/biased reviews from around launch as well.
- anexprogrammer 10y agoA moving average might be a good idea there. Giving Vine reviews a strike probably cuts all the "I received this item on spec..." garbage, with or without photo. what's left is photos from hopefully "normal" reviewers.