Re:This is the best drone according to Amazon? – The HS100
by rtkwe on Tuesday October 30, 2018 @10:22AM
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Depends on how effective the corrected score mechanism is. If it's taking out the scores it deems fake then recalculating the score based on the remaining scores that campaign will only hurt their FakeSpot score while still leaving their overall score mostly intact. If they drop the score just because of fake reviews the attack would work but if it basically just filters out spam reviews it's much less attackable.
Re:This is the best drone according to Amazon? – The HS100
by ReviewMeta on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @04:27PM
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That's not exactly how it would work. As stated on the reports, deleted reviews don't actually affect our adjusted rating or pass/fail/warn result.
Technically speaking, of course ReviewMeta can be "gamed", but it would require much more effort on the part of the seller to generate reviews in such a way that it wouldn't set off any warnings on our side. Basically force them to be very deliberate in their efforts. It would just add yet another hoop for sellers to jump through, making it that much more difficult on their part.
This is a crappy game of cat and mouse, and if producers are willing to exploit Amazon's system, they'll exploit ReviewMeta. The only thing that protects ReviewMeta at this point is that it's a niche service.
It'd be nice to see a mechanism that recognizes trusted reviewers, but even that can be exploited I suppose.