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I suspect quite a bit of astroturfing is going on in app store reviews. My national iOS app store has a fairly small volume of ratings/reviews, usually single o
by ableal 15y ago
I suspect quite a bit of astroturfing is going on in app store reviews. My national iOS app store has a fairly small volume of ratings/reviews, usually single or double digits, only hitting hundreds for a very few apps. I've spotted two or three weird scattershots of desultory, ill-fitting, generic-sounding reviews. It even looked like the effort needed was overestimated out of ignorance ...
- ceejayoz 15y agoOh, that's a certainty. I've seen Amazon Mechanical Turk work items that have you place a five star review and receive payment for having done so.
- ableal 15y agoHmm, that explains why they are "reviews" (with verifiable names) instead of just ratings (untraceable externally). Fortuitous interesting excursion on arXiv: top-200 heavy physics papers readers, "2010 Institutional arXiv Usage Data" at http://arxiv.org/help/support/2010_usage http://arxiv.org/help/support/2010_usage