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> Belkin's President: "So, it was with great surprise and dismay when we discovered that one of our employees may have posted a number of queries on the Amazon
by diN0bot 18y ago
> Belkin's President: "So, it was with great surprise and dismay when we discovered that one of our employees may have posted a number of queries on the Amazon Mechanical Turk website inviting users to post positive reviews of Belkin products in exchange for payment."
But how do I trust them enough to know that he's telling the truth?
- vaksel 18y agoeasy...just read some user submitted reviews about the company
- nebula 18y agoAnd, how do we know that those reviews are not generated through Turks?
- grouchyOldGuy 18y agoYour sarcasm detector seems to be broken. Check its batteries.
- nebula 18y agoOr your sarcasm detector is giving false positives.
- cabalamat 18y ago> But how do I trust them enough to know that he's telling the truth? You can go on their behaviour in the past. In 2003, Belkin sold a router that would occasionally throw away the response to http requests, and replace them with an advert for a Belkin product -- http://groups.google.com/group/news.admin.net-abuse.email/msg/a2f1f0993da51df6 http://groups.google.com/group/news.admin.net-abuse.email/ms... More details here: http://67.43.12.89/~cabalama/weblog/art_49.html http://67.43.12.89/~cabalama/weblog/art_49.html and here: http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/11/11/0031204 http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/11/11/0031204 I think Belkin are lying. Deceit is part of their corporate culture.
- wyday 18y agoYou can't, but not everything is a big conspiracy. He very likely is embarrassed.
- mixmax 18y agoembarrassed to be found out maybe?