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" except that he's located in.... New Zealand. Not NYC" His opening, way to specific, directions is what set off my spidey sense. As per some research that was
by laserDinosaur 14y ago
" except that he's located in.... New Zealand. Not NYC"
His opening, way to specific, directions is what set off my spidey sense. As per some research that was done a while back (Only link I can find on short notice: http://cornellsun.com/section/news/content/2011/09/23/cornell-researchers-work-spot-fake-reviews http://cornellsun.com/section/news/content/2011/09/23/cornel...) to detect advertising plants, the plants would always try to build a scene of what happened ("I was on the 143 bus heading down Front Street when I saw the catching blue uniforms of the restaurant"), where as the real customers were more about emotions ("I felt ripped off, screw this place"). His attempt to build a scene right off the bat seems to fit this pretty well shrugs.
- sadga 14y agoThat article says the fake reviews are for Mechanical Turk -- it's unclear if they were reviews that were actually approved by a scammer, or if the researcher's just said "write me a fake review". There's a huge chance that their synthetic fake reviews don't resemble real deceptive reviews. Also, the "real" reviews were just pulled from a site, without any research to verify their authenticity.
- laserDinosaur 14y agoThe article might not be the best (it wasn't the one I read a year or so ago), just a similar article I could find quickly. I don't think the original article was much better though =)