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Re:Amazon can’t end fake reviews, but its new system might d... by heartbeats on Friday February 14, 2020 @09:50AM (#22326985)
One approach might be to shadowban fake accounts' reviews. They still show up as text, but they don't get counted in the average. If Amazon at T = 0 know which reviews are legitimate and which aren't, someone who consistently gives five-star reviews to shit products could have their ratings lowered in importance.

You could go all the way with this: look at my reviews, and then only show me reviews made by people with similar tastes.

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Re:Amazon can’t end fake reviews, but its new system might d... by julianlam on Friday February 14, 2020 @10:09AM (#22327164)
A good idea. I'd wager that a high proportion of users who join these "rating review" schemes are accounts that rate 90+% of their items as 5 stars.

If you check my Amazon account, I don't even rate most of my purchases.

It's a rather low sensitivity metric but one that has some value.

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