>They think Amazon reviews are useful Amazon reviews are still useful because many times, people will point out some negative aspects and nonobvious defects of

>They think Amazon reviews are useful Amazon reviews are still useful because many times, people will point out some negative aspects and nonobvious defects of the product that I didn't think of. This helps me avoid buying a lot of junk. (My previous mattress shopping example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24197305 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24197305) Yes, reviews can be gamed but there's still some signal in the noise. On the other hand, many product categories on Amazon have useless reviews because they group unrelated SKUs together into 1 page. E.g. different harddrive models of different capacities made across different years and manufactured in different countries of origin. E.g. everybody writing 1-star reviews of the bad Seagate 3TB drives is irrelevant to assessing the other 10TB and 16TB drives. E.g. 24000+ combined reviews for unrelated harddrives released across 15+ years : https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-IronWolf-12TB-Internal-Drive/dp/B07SLPTK17/ https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-IronWolf-12TB-Internal-Drive/...