> it’s 2019 and there are still people who trust online reviews written by people they don’t know! I feel it's an extension of the old "innocent until proven g

> it’s 2019 and there are still people who trust online reviews written by people they don’t know! I feel it's an extension of the old "innocent until proven guilty" thing. In the Western world, especially in the United States, we have this belief of trusting unless we are given a very high confidence level reason not to. It's this belief that is being taken advantage of via online review systems. We do not doubt them by default because it would be mean or rude to doubt the entity behind the review (entity meaning person or bot).