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The article mentions the way they're even able to abuse that: giving gift cards to users who can then buy the product and leave a fake review as a verified purc

• Shivetya 9y ago
  well the next step is to have a required number of unrelated purchase from other vendors/etc. all sorts of ways to put a brake on it. give buyers history similar to how ebay does, once you pass a number of unrelated purchases your rating actually affects the items score. another method is that before the score is counted your account has to be XXX days old.
  • pilsetnieks 9y ago
    There are review programs that act as a middleman between the buyers/reviewers and sellers that aggregate multiple items to review from many sellers. They could easily circumvent something like that (for example, if you want to participate, you get to buy 5 cheap shit items with a 90% discount from different sellers and have to leave 5-star reviews.) I think the first step would be not accepting reviews, or downranking them, similarly to unverified purchases, if the purchase was discounted with a promo code given by the seller.