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I'd imagine that it can't be too hard on Amazon's side to predict whether a product receives a lot of fake reviews or not. Just checking if the reviewer has oth

by WA 12y ago

I'd imagine that it can't be too hard on Amazon's side to predict whether a product receives a lot of fake reviews or not. Just checking if the reviewer has other reviews would be a simple first step to grab the low-hanging fruit. Amazon is a huge search engine. They should act like one and prevent attempts of gaming the system.

dredmorbius 12y ago
I'll just note that other search engines have been waging a ~15 year war against deceptive content, fake links, and other shenanigans. It's a war of attrition and whack-a-mole, not something you can straight-out win. That said, if Amazon incentivized private fraud-busters like amazonthrowaway here, that might be a Good Thing. Faith in the site itself, reviews, and products should matter to Amazon, after all.