Amazon Fake Reviews
Discussions center on the prevalence of fake, paid, and manipulated reviews on Amazon, including positive and negative ones from competitors, Amazon's incentives and failures to address them, and tools or suggestions to detect and mitigate review fraud.
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Do you trust Amazon to remove fake reviews?
Do they verify fake positive reviews, or just the fake negatives?
Can you ask and get good results of how many reviews seem fake, misleading, and for previous different items leaching off the same review-pile?
With fake reviews in the opposite direction?
What stops this subreddit from becoming spammed with fake reviews or otherwise succumbing to the problems of Amazon reviews?
Amazon may not be able to stop it, but they could surely mitigate it significantly. They choose not to, because in the end, having lots of reviews for lots of products is better for them than having a few reviews for a few products, even if a significant number of the reviews are fake.
How would fakespot be targeted by fake reviewers?
Until Amazon has financial liability for fake/paid reviews, they will never go away.
isn't it a mechanism to combat fake reviews or this is just a bug?
"ehm.. with fake reviews"