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At one point in the future … bots will be buying cheap products and reviewing it with glowing reviews and recommendations to other bots who will also buy them and repeat.
Future space faring civilizations will wonder why this planet is filled with automated machines, digital systems that are all manufacturing, purchasing, commenting how great these products are no matter how useless they are, then disposing the products and endlessly repeating the cycle.
They will also wonder who the original inhabitants of this planet were and why they built such a strange system.
I try to never use Amazon, but I recently did. The product I bought was defective, so I tried to leave a review. I was told I’m not allowed to write a review because I haven’t purchased enough products recently. Fuck Amazon.
Atomic Shrimp just tested a very obvious scam memory card, and Amazon deleted their review.
I bought a popcorn bowl that turned out to be terrible. It came with a leaflet coupon saying if I left a 5-star review, they would send me another bowl for free.
The comment I tried to leave was a short, fair, polite statement along the lines of 'this bowl doesn’t meet the claims X and Y on the description, and came with an offer to trade a good review for another bowl for free." That review got flagged by the automod and was ultimately rejected. If I recall, the rejection message wasn’t even specific on what rule my review broke.
Remember when the FCC used fake comments to justify their attacks against net neutrality?
I do.
Yrs ago this would have (foolishly) increased my trust in the companies, but I’ve long since learned that companies building a “coalition” doesn’t mean squat unless it’s actually utilized to create positive change.
For years they profit off fake reviews. The government finally starts to notice and all of a sudden the corporations give a shit? Riiiiight.
It must be hurting their bottom line.
Or they just want certain reviews to be removed by claiming they are fake.
No reason to expect that th reason is to benefit their customers.
I thought fake reviews were already illegal?
