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Do you value reviews written by other people? If not, some certainly do, and you're providing a free service to them.
No, I’m not providing it to them. I’m giving it to amazon to do with it whatever will profit them most.
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>Why provide free services to billionaires? Also why I never saw the point of sites like quora. Why are all these "subject matter experts" spending countless hours writing free content for a platform that is ultimately locked in and going to either a) Be infested with ads or b) Going to charge money (like the publishers' racket in scientific publishing).
At least for Quora (or rather StackOverflow for me) I could understand it as satisfying a need to be in a community of experts and exchange ideas on more fringe topics. Also it‘s probably a good thing to put on your resume if you have amassed sufficient fake internet points ;) Amazon reviews however... you‘re just a drop in the ocean and there‘s certainly no community. Thus you‘d have to pay me if you want me to enga…
I write no reviews at all. Also, take no customer service surveys. Why provide free services to billionaires? Let amazon hire a product review staff. Let Verizon supervisors monitor the quality of the phone staff. Let uber hire secret shoppers. These companies are all exploiting your good will to enrich themselves.
I write no reviews at all. Also, take no customer service surveys. Why provide free services to billionaires? Let amazon hire a product review staff. Let Verizon supervisors monitor the quality of the phone staff. Let uber hire secret shoppers. These companies are all exploiting your good will to enrich themselves.
Lol who exactly do you think would assume the burden of the cost of hired product review staff?
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Lol who exactly do you think would assume the burden of the cost of hired product review staff?
Amazon derives a lot of value from the reviews on their site. They can put people who are skeptical about a product at ease and lead to a purchase, for example.
Most people don’t give a shit.
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Are you sure consumers will actually pay? Assuming Consumer Reports is truthful, what percentage of consumers actually pay for it? My solution actually can't be opened to fake reviews, but it is expensive and I haven't been able to find a work around for that. Unfortunately quality costs.
Looks like about 1%[1]. If that's not a big enough business opportunity for you ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer_Reports (see circulation in sidebar)
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No, I’m not providing it to them. I’m giving it to amazon to do with it whatever will profit them most.
I mean, if we continue with that logic you're actually providing it to your ISP, who does what they think will profit the most. That is, delivering it to Amazon. Who will then deliver it to others looking to buy that product.
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Yes, that limits the number of identities a review can come from, but it cannot tell if they're lying. It's powerless against approaches like: "Buy my product from Amazon, leave me a 5 star review and I'll pay your fees, a $10 bonus and let you keep the item".
Well if your caught lying your online and offline identity/reputation will take a huge hit. It would be extremely detrimental financially and professionally to your life ... like having to go bankrupt. Be moral and just online or you don’t matter! Otherwise in time the Internet may not matter as much. Further re deepfake stuff that’s even worse ...threat of going to jail!
How do you vet my published opinion? If I order something from Amazon and give it a five star review, how do you, or Amazon know that the opinion I'm submitting in my review is genuine or not? You can't even vet my criteria at the point of review.
I think that is a key point here. We have started to trust aggregate "opinions" as a source of truth, assuming high numbers will obviate any tampering, assuming tampering could not be done at scale.... Something that just doesn't exist for most things on Amazon.
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I mean, if we continue with that logic you're actually providing it to your ISP, who does what they think will profit the most. That is, delivering it to Amazon. Who will then deliver it to others looking to buy that product.
Is it so far fetched to think amazon might manipulate reviews? Yelp and Glassdoor do.
Sort of beside the point though - I don't actually care about the impact, good or bad, on Amazon. If I write a review it is to help a fellow consumer. If I think my review instead hurts the fellow, or has no effect, I won't do it. But how it impacts Amazon simply doesn't matter to me.
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Well if your caught lying your online and offline identity/reputation will take a huge hit. It would be extremely detrimental financially and professionally to your life ... like having to go bankrupt. Be moral and just online or you don’t matter! Otherwise in time the Internet may not matter as much. Further re deepfake stuff that’s even worse ...threat of going to jail!
> if your caught lying How do you vet my published opinion? If I order something from Amazon and give it a five star review, how do you, or Amazon know that the opinion I'm submitting in my review is genuine or not? You can't even vet my criteria at the point of review. I think that is a key point here. We have started to trust aggregate "opinions" as a source of truth, assuming high numbers will obviate any tamperin…
There is zero consequences now for getting paid, bribed, etc for writing fake reviews and little by little helping to destroy the Internet.
There are laws about pollution... why not have laws against polluting the Internet with bribery/racketeering junk that is detrimental to the health of the Internet?