throwaway_1301

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by throwaway_1301 5y ago
I suspect that was in reference to Jeff Bezos.
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by throwaway_1301 5y ago
> When I look at that list, Jeff Bezos is #1. The first woman on the list is at #10 and inherited her wealth. Are you looking at a different list? I think the comment does refer to Jeff Bezos. Here is the relevant section from Wikipedia:
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by throwaway_1301 6y ago
Disclaimer: Worked on the google anti-abuse team that handled this a while back. We know this and its not as far fetched as people might think - happens very frequently. The systems are designed to handle this appropriately. Fun to see how
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by throwaway_1301 6y ago
So all of your statements basically say that you think Google reviews are pay to play because you dont trust them to do something right. Sure, you have the right to that opinion.
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by throwaway_1301 6y ago
Discalaimer: I used to work on the Google team that worked on anti-abuse for comments/ratings. >> So in reality I would say it's probably possible to remove any review No, it is possible to get something removed if it violat
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by throwaway_1301 6y ago
I thought the part about "only internal systems" would imply that external parties can not remove reviews. But if not then let me clarify, yes there are anti-abuse mechanisms that can remove reviews. But these are not based on cus
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by throwaway_1301 6y ago
Absolutely not true. Worked on this team for Google at one point and other than internal systems nothing can get reviews removed. Firms cant do anything, they are just swindling people out of money. Some of them will get fake reviews to try
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by throwaway_1301 6y ago
disclaimer: Google employee. Views my own. You can not pay to change Google reviews. Period. And the theories of "you dont know whats happening in all parts" is not true because I looked at detailed numbers myself and other than l
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by throwaway_1301 6y ago
We will never have anything if we decide only perfect things are allowed to exist. Its not the best example but even our country/state/local level justice system has cases where it fails. In addition to judges actually making inco
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by throwaway_1301 6y ago
How would you feel if half the positive reviews on your small business were wiped out overnight - incorrectly?
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by throwaway_1301 6y ago
Youtubes revenue is not its profit. It has significant expenses in terms of paying creators, hosting and bandwidth costs and the cost of all the engineers it takes to run the systems. In addition you do not factor in significant complexitie
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by throwaway_1301 6y ago
[disclaimer] I work at Google, all opinions are my own. I don't deal with Youtube but have had exposure to moderation operations. It is not an easy task. Google already has more than 10k people working on this: https://blog.
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by throwaway_1301 6y ago
In my opinion it is a huge net positive. Its not the popular opinion on HN but I do think it is. Its personally been instrumental for me. Coming from a solidly lower middle class background in a developing country - Google was the only reas
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by throwaway_1301 6y ago
The equivalent of "medicare for all is impossible" would be that an approach saying "anti spam is impossible so we wont do anything". That is not the case. While I do not know about amazon reviews I would bet its a fairl
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by throwaway_1301 6y ago
I guess I feel more comfortable commenting on this vs such posts about Google (my employer) because I don't have to worry about leaking anything important but this is absolutely not a piece of cake. Anyone who has worked on planet scal