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Nice sentiment, but it's a bit unnerving to see an industry consolidating like this while ALSO buying out sites that review the beer. Having few large, central
by hylianwarrior 9y ago
Nice sentiment, but it's a bit unnerving to see an industry consolidating like this while ALSO buying out sites that review the beer. Having few large, central corporations control both the market and the medium by which the products are reviewed is not a good thing.
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- civilian 9y agoThe reviewing sites thing is silly. However, it sure seems like an opportunity for new beer reviewing websites to pop up!
- usrusr 9y agoIf Underarmour refuses to buy your running tracker, pivot to a beer review site!
- jxramos 9y agoI guess the tricky thing would be measuring what they do the site. If they take it down or delete negative reviews, etc, that would be some questionable behavior. If they use it to gain honest feedback and funnel it into development channels of some kind that could prove interesting. Overall seems like a conflict of interest. I wonder how much appetite they'd have to buy up the next review site that pops up and catches on. Sort of like review site whak-a-mole. It would be very disconcerting to say the least if a company went out and bought up all new and fledgling review sites of interest to them.
- cma 9y agoA public review site is public. You don't need to buy it to gain honest feedback.
- jxramos 9y agothat's true, but I'm thinking they'd bake in some in-house custom API for organizing it all and rendering it into some sort of data analytics repo. I guess this could be accomplished too via the public interface and just work around things indirectly.