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#2Industry rules preventing beers, bands, and actors from having the same name seem sort-of strange, until you get into technology.
Which is weird bc we all fret about "namespace pollution" but see no problem with calling something Vine after the last thing called Vine is still in the zeigeist enough that people say "I miss Vine" from time to time.
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#3I had never heard of Amazon Vine before, but am willing to assume that there are a ton of problems with it; but this post doesn't clearly articulate them. It seizes on problems with two reviews, and seems premised on the idea that "I know my product is flawless, so the problem for any reviews that are less than 5 stars must be with the reviewer."
(The case doesn't seem very clearly made—despite the highlighted policy—for why it should be inappropriate for someone to write about their observations of someone else's experience with the product, only why it would be inappropriate to write "I hear lots of people don't like this" or similar. Also, the complaint about reviewers leaping to judgements is surely accurate, but more a problem with (at least non-expert) reviewing in general than with this particular program.)
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#4Industry rules preventing beers, bands, and actors from having the same name seem sort-of strange, until you get into technology. Which is weird bc we all fret about "namespace pollution" but see no problem with calling something Vine after the last thing called Vine is still in the zeigeist enough that people say "I miss Vine" from time to time.
> Which is weird bc we all fret about "namespace pollution" but see no problem with calling something Vine after the last thing called Vine is still in the zeigeist enough that people say "I miss Vine" from time to time.
Well, who's going to do anything about it if we do have a problem? No one's in a position to rein Amazon in on its clearly abusive behavior in important domains; who both wants to and is able to regulate what it calls its services?
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#5I had never heard of Amazon Vine before, but am willing to assume that there are a ton of problems with it; but this post doesn't clearly articulate them. It seizes on problems with two reviews, and seems premised on the idea that "I know my product is flawless, so the problem for any reviews that are less than 5 stars must be with the reviewer." (The case doesn't seem very clearly made—despite the highlighted policy…
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#6I had never heard of Amazon Vine before, but am willing to assume that there are a ton of problems with it; but this post doesn't clearly articulate them. It seizes on problems with two reviews, and seems premised on the idea that "I know my product is flawless, so the problem for any reviews that are less than 5 stars must be with the reviewer." (The case doesn't seem very clearly made—despite the highlighted policy…
"I know my product is flawless, so the problem for any reviews that are less than 5 stars must be with the reviewer."
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#7Industry rules preventing beers, bands, and actors from having the same name seem sort-of strange, until you get into technology. Which is weird bc we all fret about "namespace pollution" but see no problem with calling something Vine after the last thing called Vine is still in the zeigeist enough that people say "I miss Vine" from time to time.
Also, people maintaining websites don't care about updating their description. I got quite confused for a while.
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#9I had never heard of Amazon Vine before, but am willing to assume that there are a ton of problems with it; but this post doesn't clearly articulate them. It seizes on problems with two reviews, and seems premised on the idea that "I know my product is flawless, so the problem for any reviews that are less than 5 stars must be with the reviewer." (The case doesn't seem very clearly made—despite the highlighted policy…
"I know my product is flawless, so the problem for any reviews that are less than 5 stars must be with the reviewer." I disagree with this sentiment. They seem to fully recognize that plenty of people won't like their product, but the issue here is getting negative reviews from people who likely would have never spent actual $ purchasing it and therefor aren't in the same frame of mind as an actual customer.
Ok, but that has nothing to do with implementation and everything to do with concept, which should be obvious to anyone who is thinking about participating in Vine before they do so.
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#10> "We signed up to send our niche product to random strangers, and then were surprised that nobody was adequately qualified to review it! Also we expected 5 star reviews only and this is Amazon's fault"