[FredZarguna]

Common Core kicking in and working as advertised.

[Ken H]

It has begun.

[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

I have close to 300 reviews across all of my books and they run from exceptionally well written to a suspected cat walking across the keyboard. Where are you seeing these professional looking reviews?

[Jonty30]

There is software that can correct things on the fly.

[867V309]

Many “verified purchasers” are paid hacks who get products and/or money to write fake reviews. They are mostly from China, and are reimbursed for purchase in return for a favorable review. Beware.

[alexander_busek]

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.

They were written by software programs with a sub-routine which intentionally included spelling errors, etc. in order to boost versimilitude.

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.

The sub-routine is malfunctioning.

Regards,

[Rodamala]

I am just pissed because Amazon took down the BEST book review EVER... fortunately, I archived it, complete with all the formating:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3199467/posts?page=4#4.

[napscoordinator]

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.

[UnwashedPeasant]

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.

[cynwoody]

I just checked my reviews, and I didn't notice any evidence of editing by Amazon ...

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.

[outofsalt]

The Guardians of Grammar are everywhere and they know where you are at!

[batterycommander]

Perhaps what is even more ironic are the wishes of recently identified criminals and killers on the Amazon Wish Lists.

[Morgana]

Two words: Publik Skools.

[tbw2]

Crowdsourcing review of the product reviews to weed out the ones written by a drunk or Chinese reviewer who has 2nd grade English.

[SamAdams76]

These Screws Screw Great

These are fine screws and they screw pretty well, but if this is your first screw, you should slow down and be sure to ease it in at first. If you're screwing into a snug hole, you will need to loosen up the hole first with some lubricant or you can also lube the screw if the hole is especially hard to reach. Be be sure to know where the hole is at all times so that you can line it up properly. Sometimes, you will be required to apply a significant amount of torque to screw it in. In those cases, be careful when you are screwing so that you do not strip out the hole. I think the ease of stripping is kind of just a side effect of such a fine screw though. Remember, it is better to screw too slow than to screw too fast. Overall, this is a great screw, especially for those who do not have a lot of prior experience with screws.

I highly recommend getting this screw.

72 out of 77 found this review helpful.

[IamConservative]

Kind of an aside to the topic, but there are some legendary comments on some products. Might want to empty your bladder before you read some of the hall of fame comments here:

http://www.amazon.com/Haribo-Gummi-Candy-Gold-Bears-5-Pound/dp/B000EVOSE4/ref=sr_1_1?s=grocery&ie=UTF8&qid=1433335422&sr=1-1&keywords=sugar+free+gummy+bears