Apologies, yes, I did read that like a suggestion of 3rd party reviews fixing AMZN reviews.
To continue the thread but being on the same page, I still think reviews are not something that humans can handle correctly. The people looking to game the reviews will always try harder than the people trying to stop them. I just don't trust online reviews from random internet people. I might ask people I know personaly and am familiar with and would be willing to trust their assessments. Randos on the internet just can't prove anything, because of course a bot could say/do everything a person would try to prove they are not a bot.
For those that are willing to put faith in reviews, have fun. Don't let my pessimism stop you.
| I just don't trust online reviews from random internet people.
What we need is to be able to give extra weigth to reviews we can (somewhat) trust. This means that we need to start keeping "files" on each other, and we need a tool for looking up authors of messages and traversing chains of trust ...
Right?
To continue the thread but being on the same page, I still think reviews are not something that humans can handle correctly. The people looking to game the reviews will always try harder than the people trying to stop them. I just don't trust online reviews from random internet people. I might ask people I know personaly and am familiar with and would be willing to trust their assessments. Randos on the internet just can't prove anything, because of course a bot could say/do everything a person would try to prove they are not a bot.
For those that are willing to put faith in reviews, have fun. Don't let my pessimism stop you.