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Re:Amazon Introduces Tougher Rules to Fight Fake Reviews by TrevorJ on Friday December 02, 2016 @11:38PM (#13094334)
Amazon is a completely dishonest company. Go look at the Xfinity internet reviews on their site. fully eightfive percent of them are a single star. And YET... Xfinity has 4 stars overall. The problem isn't users creating fake reviews it's Amazon itself.
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Re:Amazon Introduces Tougher Rules to Fight Fake Reviews by Dylan16807 on Friday December 02, 2016 @11:45PM (#13094351)
54 verified 5 star reviews

16 verified 1 star reviews

The reason it's 4 stars overall is because of the attempt to filter out fake reviews.

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Re:Amazon Introduces Tougher Rules to Fight Fake Reviews by TrevorJ on Friday December 02, 2016 @11:56PM (#13094390)
I don't think you are looking at the same thing I am.

https://www.amazon.com/XFINITY-High-Speed-Internet-Exclusive...

There are over 900 reviews.

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Re:Amazon Introduces Tougher Rules to Fight Fake Reviews by Splines on Saturday December 03, 2016 @12:44AM (#13094521)
That's a weird situation - it's a partnership between Amazon and Comcast, and many of the 5-star reviews say "Amazon customer service is awesome". It says more about Amazon than Comcast.

Some of the reviews even say "We all know Comcast sucks, this is a review about buying it through Amazon".

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Re:Amazon Introduces Tougher Rules to Fight Fake Reviews by function_seven on Saturday December 03, 2016 @12:01AM (#13094403)
Yeah, but if you look at just the verified ones, they break out like the parent commenter wrote.
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Re:Amazon Introduces Tougher Rules to Fight Fake Reviews by TrevorJ on Saturday December 03, 2016 @12:12AM (#13094430)
There are over 100 verified reviews, it doesn't seem like we re seeing the same thing.
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Re:Amazon Introduces Tougher Rules to Fight Fake Reviews by Dylan16807 on Saturday December 03, 2016 @12:29AM (#13094482)
It shows me exactly 100 verified reviews.

  5: 54
  4: 13
  3: 9
  2: 8
  1: 16
Average: 3.81 stars
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