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Interesting read:
http://consumerist.com/2016/02/08/i...ight-latest-wave-of-fake-compensated-reviews/
Notable:
Revieworrhea
THE CURIOUS CASE OF “ANDREA”
In one week in January, a reviewer named “Andrea” wrote up approximately 200 5-star opinions, including reviews for cases for at least 14 different phones:
Out of curiosity, we looked at what else these users had reviewed, and every single one of them with a public profile appears to have spent an inordinate amount of time writing up their supposedly honest feelings about dozens of products — a day.
We looked at the list of reviews since Jan. 1 for each of these users and found that they averaged more than 400 reviews each in just those few weeks. The fewest was around 100 reviews since Jan. 1, while one user managed to somehow crank out approximately 950 reviews in a single month.
Assuming eight hours of sleep per day, that’s nearly two reviews an hour for every single waking hour, every day of the week for 31 days.
So what are these people reviewing? Apparently anything they can get at a deep discount in exchange for a review.
http://consumerist.com/2016/02/08/i...ight-latest-wave-of-fake-compensated-reviews/
Notable:
Revieworrhea
THE CURIOUS CASE OF “ANDREA”
In one week in January, a reviewer named “Andrea” wrote up approximately 200 5-star opinions, including reviews for cases for at least 14 different phones:

Out of curiosity, we looked at what else these users had reviewed, and every single one of them with a public profile appears to have spent an inordinate amount of time writing up their supposedly honest feelings about dozens of products — a day.
We looked at the list of reviews since Jan. 1 for each of these users and found that they averaged more than 400 reviews each in just those few weeks. The fewest was around 100 reviews since Jan. 1, while one user managed to somehow crank out approximately 950 reviews in a single month.
Assuming eight hours of sleep per day, that’s nearly two reviews an hour for every single waking hour, every day of the week for 31 days.
So what are these people reviewing? Apparently anything they can get at a deep discount in exchange for a review.
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