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Re:Amazon ‘flooded by fake five-star reviews’ – report by topicseed on Tuesday April 16, 2019 @06:37AM (#19672482)
True, but you take some very strong signals to classify a review as (most likely) fake de facto. Such signals could be "reviewed without purchase", "user has over 1,000 reviews", etc.
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Re:Amazon ‘flooded by fake five-star reviews’ – report by xnyan on Tuesday April 16, 2019 @09:32AM (#19673401)
Reviewed without purchase is a feature not a bug, according to amazon. People don't buy stuff that's not reviewed so they want to catch people who may have gotten it elsewhere.

It's a sign amazon is not playing in good faith.

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