Posted on 05/29/2015 10:27:21 PM PDT by 4Runner
Lately I've noticed the product reviews on Amazon have become free of typos and misspellings and all errors in usage. This is absolutely weird if you think about it. For the longest time (years) these product reviews were peppered with grammatical errors, misspellings, punctuation errors and inconsistencies as one would kind of expect, coming as they did from purchasers who are not professional writers and who represent a cross section of varying educational and experience backgrounds. Now, however, the reviews from five stars on down to one star all read as though they've come straight out of Consumer Reports magazine. They are grammatically perfect with nary a typo or misspelling in sight. Has anyone else noticed this difference? There have been some rumblings about manufacturers paying people to write positive product reviews on Amazon, but this sudden homogeneity in the editorial quality of the written reviews on Amazon across all brands and markets has got me wondering what the heck Jeff Bezos is up to now.
Okay but how does all of that get past the internal Amazon review process where you submit a review and it has to be approved by them before they will show it on their site? Would think Amazon might have some legal liability for utilizing known counterfeit testimonials, no?
The suit is the first time Amazon has tried to crack down on fake reviews since it debuted the review platform. It accuses Gentile of promising a customer that the company would “provide as many five-star reviews as the purchaser wanted,” and that he also promised to “slow drip” them onto Amazon’s product pages so that the company would have a “more difficult time detecting them.”
The suit also alleges Gentile told the customer that the seller could “simply ship empty packages in an effort to fool Amazon into believing the reviewer was a ‘verified purchaser.’ ” It says the websites sell its service for $19 to $22 per review.
Gentile's operation is based in California of course.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3199467/posts?page=4#4.
Even though quality is down on Amazon reviews, they are 100 percent better than our Journolists we have today. At least a normal person has an excuse that maybe they were using I-Phone or something. Journolists have zero excuse except that they are dumb.
What is to disapprove?
It is just some buyers opinion, what laws are involved, and how does Amazon look at a buyer’s opinion and reject it?
1. There are more fake reviews as internet marketers have discovered they can sell junk on Amazon.
2. Amazon may have improved the spell checker in their review software.
As I type this post, FreeRepublic is underlining my typos in red. Maybe Amazon has adopted the FreeRepublic typo-destroying technology.
I even gave one otherwise perfectly fine product one star a while back in a lengthy review because I decided its software was politically incorrect (by my definition, not Lenin's). It was a GPS that lacked a simple way to delete the trip log. I see I got accused of being an Apple fanboi in one of the comments. Oh well.
Really?
What are you complaining about? It's all over the internet.
“There is software that can correct things on the fly.”
I’m not sure when it happened but I think it’s Windows 7 and the newer Microsoft Office Suites that autocorrect on the fly. As I typed this post the small “m” in “Microsoft” autocorrected to a capitalized “M”. It just corrected “capitalised” to capitalized too. Now the “capitalised” version is underlined in red. I have to force the v to an s.
So the autocorrect function is outside of office, works in any text box including an Amazon review, and is probably a function of Win 7.
I wish they would have edited one of my reviews.
I wrote it quickly and used “effect” instead of “affect.”
Embarrassing.
That could be. However, I would think Amazon could easily install something like that on their website as well.
That would mean FR has autocorrect on the website and I don’t think that is the case. I think it’s in the user’s PC - or smart phone. Smartphones can autocorrect in text boxes too. This post is being composed on a smart phone and it’s autocorrecting as I compose it.
The Guardians of Grammar are everywhere and they know where you are at!
Thank you for your post. Helps starting off the day with a hearty laugh!
Ending a sentence with a preposition is a practice up with the Guardians of Grammar will not put!
Perhaps what is even more ironic are the wishes of recently identified criminals and killers on the Amazon Wish Lists.
Two words: Publik Skools.
Crowdsourcing review of the product reviews to weed out the ones written by a drunk or Chinese reviewer who has 2nd grade English.
In the reviews, you will see "Verified purchase" and on some, "Vine Customer Review of Free Product". Check out the reviews on this product:
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