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Re:Amazon Posts Another Blockbuster Profit by JustSomeNobody on Thursday July 28, 2016 @06:11PM (#12183581)
I'd like to see something "social", where you "follow" other reviewers (who reviewed something you bought and you trust their review) and build up a reviewer network and then factor in some sort of "trust" percentage (how much you trust the reivewer).
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Re:Amazon Posts Another Blockbuster Profit by blawson on Thursday July 28, 2016 @09:53PM (#12184577)
Trusting reviewers gets really complicated quickly, as someone I trust to evaluate what makes a good blender might really hate that genre of books I enjoy.
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Re:Amazon Posts Another Blockbuster Profit by JustSomeNobody on Friday July 29, 2016 @07:20AM (#12186079)
Indeed. It would be a slow process, but over time, as you buy items, you select reviewers to follow who share your likes for the various items.

And it being a "social" thing, there's nothing stopping you from reaching out and having a conversation with reviewers.

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Re:Amazon Posts Another Blockbuster Profit by nommm-nommm on Friday July 29, 2016 @07:16AM (#12186054)
Having a system with trusted reviewers is even easier to game as well.
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Re:Amazon Posts Another Blockbuster Profit by JustSomeNobody on Friday July 29, 2016 @07:23AM (#12186088)
No doubt. I mean trust is an aspect of any con, right?

Still, I would at least like to see something like what I mentioned tried.

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Re:Amazon Posts Another Blockbuster Profit by jameslk on Thursday July 28, 2016 @06:22PM (#12183645)
That's an interesting idea, almost in a meritocracy kind of sense, or in other words, reviewing the reviewer. Perhaps previous trust "points" can be used a weighted boost, kind of like PageRank, but for reviewers.
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Re:Amazon Posts Another Blockbuster Profit by JustSomeNobody on Friday July 29, 2016 @07:30AM (#12186117)
Yes. But for the reviewers _you_ follow, _you_ rank them based on how much you trust their reviews. Your trust rank is factored into the reviewers who are followed by the reviewers you follow, so as you go down the line the trust gets lower and lower.
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