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I think it's helpful to look at a reviewer's review history. Urbanspoon prominently displays the reviewer's number of reviews next to each review. I generally i
by DanielStraight 16y ago
I think it's helpful to look at a reviewer's review history. Urbanspoon prominently displays the reviewer's number of reviews next to each review. I generally ignore reviews from people with fewer than ten. A similar system could be helpful on other sites.
It can still be gamed, but at least it's a step in the right direction.
- DanielBMarkham 16y agoHere's another example. I went looking for sci-fi books for my kindle for the Christmas holiday season. It was really difficult: all I wanted was a good stand-alone book that was readable and thought-provoking. What I ended up getting by looking at the reviews were lots of books that were in some kind of 20-part series where the only reason they got so many good reviews was because the author/series had a huge fan base. It took an hour to de-tangle the fanboy reviews from the ones that were helpful, and that was even paying attention to Amazon's meta-review system. That's not really very helpful.