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I've been using https://www.fakespot.com https://www.fakespot.com to flag bullshit reviews for a few months now. After many happy purchases informed by its revi

I've been using https://www.fakespot.com https://www.fakespot.com to flag bullshit reviews for a few months now. After many happy purchases informed by its review analysis, I believe it works.

drewr 8y ago
How can we believe you?
- riazrizvi 8y ago
  : ) Well don't take it on trust, validate it works. And keep validating it still works, because one day it won't. Everyone seems to sell out in the end.
  - wuliwong 8y ago
    What do you mean by "validate it"?
    - loco5niner 8y ago
      I've used fakespot for purchases for a while now. I feel that it's helped me avoid bad products. Thus... it's validated (at lease for myself)
  - endorphone 8y ago
    It's impossible to validate. Further for all we know Fakespot (which curiously has been mentioned multiple times) might itself be a fake that undermines products that are sponsored, etc. It probably isn't, I'm just saying.
    - riazrizvi 8y ago
      ? You could manually analyze the reviewers for suspicious non-specificity, typical of paid reviewers for whom it is not cost effective to write a tailored review when they are being paid pennies per post. Also over time you could compare the quality of products that it says have fake reviews vs ones it says does not.
    - lainga 8y ago
      But how can I trust what you're saying? What if you've been paid off by Fakespot?
      - philwelch 8y ago
        That's why I'm launching my new website, SpotFakeFakeSpot, which helps spot fake fake review spotting sites. I got the idea from my time as a sales rep selling radar detector detectors to police departments.
        nasredin 8y ago
        Thanks. I had no idea there's a full scale electronic war on the streets of my city.
        philwelch 8y ago
        You have no idea, man. Radar detectors these days even have radar detector detector detectors built in.
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21 8y ago
How do you determine a review is bullshit? Do you only flag reviews for items you've bought?
- nasredin 8y ago
  5 stars. Very generic positive language. Poor grammar and or spelling. --- The only sure way is to click on the profile and read the rest of their reviews.
lucb1e 8y ago
Would be amazing if fakespot runs the whole fake review business and therefore can tell you which ones are fake. Wait until this becomes a paid service. Probably not, though, so more likely the fake reviewers will find a way to avoid its detection algorithm at some point.

I've been using https://www.fakespot.com https://www.fakespot.com to flag bullshit reviews for a few months now. After many happy purchases informed by its review analysis, I believe it works.

drewr 8y ago

How can we believe you?

riazrizvi 8y ago
: ) Well don't take it on trust, validate it works. And keep validating it still works, because one day it won't. Everyone seems to sell out in the end.
- wuliwong 8y ago
  What do you mean by "validate it"?
  - loco5niner 8y ago
    I've used fakespot for purchases for a while now. I feel that it's helped me avoid bad products. Thus... it's validated (at lease for myself)
- endorphone 8y ago
  It's impossible to validate. Further for all we know Fakespot (which curiously has been mentioned multiple times) might itself be a fake that undermines products that are sponsored, etc. It probably isn't, I'm just saying.
  - riazrizvi 8y ago
    ? You could manually analyze the reviewers for suspicious non-specificity, typical of paid reviewers for whom it is not cost effective to write a tailored review when they are being paid pennies per post. Also over time you could compare the quality of products that it says have fake reviews vs ones it says does not.
  - lainga 8y ago
    But how can I trust what you're saying? What if you've been paid off by Fakespot?
    - philwelch 8y ago
      That's why I'm launching my new website, SpotFakeFakeSpot, which helps spot fake fake review spotting sites. I got the idea from my time as a sales rep selling radar detector detectors to police departments.
      - nasredin 8y ago
        Thanks. I had no idea there's a full scale electronic war on the streets of my city.
        philwelch 8y ago
        You have no idea, man. Radar detectors these days even have radar detector detector detectors built in.
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21 8y ago

How do you determine a review is bullshit? Do you only flag reviews for items you've bought?

nasredin 8y ago
5 stars. Very generic positive language. Poor grammar and or spelling. --- The only sure way is to click on the profile and read the rest of their reviews.

lucb1e 8y ago

Would be amazing if fakespot runs the whole fake review business and therefore can tell you which ones are fake. Wait until this becomes a paid service. Probably not, though, so more likely the fake reviewers will find a way to avoid its detection algorithm at some point.