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So the star ratings can be gamed but not the 'helpful' button?
by danparsonson 5y ago
So the star ratings can be gamed but not the 'helpful' button?
- taeric 5y agoWould be amusing if it was the queen's duck. (Probably more accurate to call it a honey pot.) Basically, as long as the stars are there, they capture most of the fraud?
- crazygringo 5y agoI'm sure it could be in theory but it doesn't seem to be in practice. I think the logistics would just be harder -- it's relatively simply to put a leaflet in the product advertising "leave a 5-star review, then e-mail us and get this bonus product/warranty/whatever." Whereas to locate a specific review to mark "Helpful" would need to be via e-mail with a link to a specific review in question, coordinated across several of them, with so much volume that it outweighs the naturally "helpful" ones. I don't know, but I've never seen it happen.
- danparsonson 5y agoIf I were an unscrupulous seller, I'd write a nice review myself, pay a stooge to post it, then pay a bunch of other stooges to mark it helpful repeatedly for the next six months from different IP addresses. I don't think it'd be all that hard but then again I've never tried it.