My experience with a 'negative review' scammer. • Hacker News Board

Re: My experience with a 'negative review' scammer.

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Post by SODaniel » Wed, Aug 03, 2011, 8:35 AM UTC

westiseast wrote: post #5

glimcat wrote: post #4

Should have gone here instead. I'm pretty sure that extortion is against Twitter's TOS. https://support.twitter.com/forums/26257/entries/15789

Thanks for the link glimcat - I'm going to see how it pans out after a few days. Tweets fade fast, and if this scammer doesn't continue posting negative reviews, then I'm happy with that.

Tweets fade from the public stream fast. However twitter themselves can research his and your entire timeline and ban him just fine even if you can no longer access the conversation.

Re: My experience with a 'negative review' scammer.

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Post by garron » Wed, Aug 03, 2011, 11:33 AM UTC

westiseast wrote: post #51

garron wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You have a good point there, it is impossible to define what is good and what not in flavors. It is like asking what is the best dog bread? And yes, the review about service is more important. This guy (Brian) at the end admitted that he did what he did just because he was unfollowed in twitter. What a guy!

Absolutely - good and bad is subjective, and I'm happy to accept that. My real anger came from the fact that these people were masquerading as professional tea reviewers, but then don't even have the decency to back up a negative review. If they'd written a long blog post slating my tea after ordering it, trying it fairly etc., then I would have been much more concerned with their opinions...

What you have to do now is keep the good quality of your product, keep the good service, keep the personal service. And remember not to hear the fools.

Remember how many bad reviews some movies got, and they still make millions. Even Avatar got bad reviews, or The Matrix :).

Re: My experience with a 'negative review' scammer.

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Post by westicle » Wed, Aug 03, 2011, 12:28 PM UTC

corin_ wrote: post #36

locusm wrote: post #23

Did you watch their tea review videos? OMG my 8 yr old could articulate a better description - like watching dumb and dumber. Maybe this was a case of professional jealousy. See what I mean here... http://healthyprofessionals.teatra.de/2011/07/26/the-tea-sho...

Wow, I really assumed you were exagerating but you were actually pretty accurate, they clearly know absolutely nothing about tea, or how to even have a semi-interesting conversation.

Plus, they just look plain shifty.

He seems unable to maintain eye contact with the camera and his gaze darts around. She seems agitated and keeps desperately staring at him.

I don't encourage anyone here to watch and increase their ad impressions. But in summary, they don't look like people you would ever want to spend time with voluntarily.