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A comment on Amazon's Fake Review Problem. Parent comment

Re:Amazon's Fake Review Problem by y2kenny on Monday December 18, 2017 @12:42PM (#15953492)
I don't understand. If your product is already rated 4.5+ stars with thousands of reviews, what's the point of adding fake review? How does that boost sales?
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Re:Amazon's Fake Review Problem by BoorishBears on Monday December 18, 2017 @02:16PM (#15954461)
Normally the first hundreds were faked, followed by occasional fake reviews to drown out dissatisfaction
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Re:Amazon's Fake Review Problem by y2kenny on Monday December 18, 2017 @02:31PM (#15954631)
Even for known-good, popular, top-selling products? The example I cited has 24k+ reviews for the US and 3.8k+ for Canada.
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Re:Amazon's Fake Review Problem by BoorishBears on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @12:53PM (#15962156)
Seeing as the site lists 11k reviews that were removed from the page, yes.
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