Yep - a review API is sorely missing - we've built a tool to enable reviewers to download their own reviews [1], and had to workaround many weirdness in the rev

Yep - a review API is sorely missing - we've built a tool to enable reviewers to download their own reviews [1], and had to workaround many weirdness in the review system. I would say that besides obvious fraud detection, it is an under-managed part of amazon, with a lot of semi-rational behaviour from reviewers, because no one is sure what amazon actually does with those. Reviews routinely disappear, reappear on a whim - how you get to vine is not clearly understood. We've actually gathered a few interesting data on this topic, I should probably put a blog post about it sometime.... [1] https://reviewers.mediapps.com/ https://reviewers.mediapps.com/