What's Up With Amazon Product Reviews?

Vanity | 05/30/2015 | 4Runner

[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.

[GeronL]

You realize there are graduates who can’t figure out what you wrote there. lol

[tbw2]

Amazon gets paid by sites like Hubpages / Demand Media to crowd-source the quality of content. I’m certain that they are doing the same thing with their own reviews to clean them up, since Amazon owns the mturk platform.

[cynwoody]

I wish they would have edited one of my reviews.

I wrote it quickly and used “effect” instead of “affect.”

You can edit or delete your reviews.

[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.

[Skooz]

Yeah, but that takes effort. :)

[1010RD]

Outstanding and that Bezos has no sense of humor.

[1010RD]

Am I misreading this post or have you reviewed your own book 300 times, sometimes well written and other times you let your cat walk across the keyboard?

[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