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I've found that sorting Amazon reviews by date works pretty well. It isn't uncommon to see all 5 star reviews for a while and mostly 1 star reviews in the more
by _ea1k 3y ago
I've found that sorting Amazon reviews by date works pretty well. It isn't uncommon to see all 5 star reviews for a while and mostly 1 star reviews in the more recent history.
- madcaptenor 3y agoSeems like it wouldn't be too hard for Amazon to weight recent reviews more heavily.
- malfist 3y agoIt wouldn't take too much effort for amazon to make their marketplace better in general, but they make money off of it being bad. The incentives aren't aligned, at least until reputation is hurt badly enough to cost them more profit than the short term gains they make by allowing false reviews and false advertising.
- _ea1k 3y agoThey could, but honestly that might be risky. It might just encourage the fake reviewers to go at a slower but more steady pace to beat the system.