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Web cache version, since the site is down for me: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2015/03/fake-amazon-book-review

• sombremesa 12y ago
  Strangely both the cached version and the website only work for me if I hit Chrome's "stop loading" button while they load. Seems to be this JS file's fault: http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/mt.js http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/mt.js
• dublinben 12y ago
  Do you leave your own review on those books to counteract the unearned rating?
  • impostervt 12y ago
    Usually yes, but always. I wish Amazon let you just give a star rating, instead of requiring you to add a real comment.
    • mcguire 12y ago
      I'd prefer it the other way around, actually. Forget the rating, maybe just give a thumbs-up/thumbs-down, and require at least a couple of sentences' worth of review. It's fairly easy to ignore a bogus review when you look at it, but the star system makes it too easy to take them at face value.
• tracker1 12y ago
  I've taken to looking at reviewer's "other" reviews when I see a slew of 1 or 5-star reviews for anything... It becomes pretty obvious which ones are real, or fake. I've come to trust those items with all 4-5 star reviews far less than I used to.