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Unfortunately they're not safe either. Competitors in a niche will hire sock puppet accounts to negative review each other.
by flavor8 7y ago
Unfortunately they're not safe either. Competitors in a niche will hire sock puppet accounts to negative review each other.
- chx 7y agoThis is why I always look at the two star reviews :) One star reviews are too often indeed sockpuppetery, PEBKAC and such.
- rienbdj 7y agoDo you not think they would have caught on to this?
- chx 7y agoToo much effort. So no, I don't think so.
- soulofmischief 7y agoIt's not too much effort to pay someone a third-world salary to do whatever you want.
- chx 7y agoYes but wanting that is way too much effort and writing a credible two star review is actually not easy.
- soulofmischief 7y agoIf you want to actually be clever then the only option is to sample all of the information available. Limiting oneself to a subset of information is not how one makes an informed decision.
- Retra 7y agoAll of the available information includes information about which information is safe to ignore.
- soulofmischief 7y agoWhich is why I said you're supposed to sample all of the available data.
- rurp 7y agoReading every possible review of a product I'm considering sounds far less clever than a simple heuristic to me.
- soulofmischief 7y agoPay attention to my words. I said to sample all of the data. I didn't say anything about reading every possible review. But you do need a good, rounded sample.