Man to pay £25,000 ($34,000) damages over negative TrustPilot review

Re:Man to pay £25,000 ($34,000) damages over negative TrustP... by newsclues on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @09:52AM (#26078131)

Reputation extortion business model

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Re:Man to pay £25,000 ($34,000) damages over negative TrustP... by koheripbal on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @11:47AM (#26079610)

Yeah, I'm not sure what's happening on Amazon, but I've noticed that most of my bad reviews never get published or disappear.

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Re:Man to pay £25,000 ($34,000) damages over negative TrustP... by frongpik on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @03:05PM (#26081834)

The answer is to give a 5 star review, the first paragraph with usual blah blah, the next paragraph with the actual feedback. Even better if you use the coded ways to provide negative feedback. The goal is to make it expensive to distinguish true good reviews from fake good reviews.

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Re:Man to pay £25,000 ($34,000) damages over negative TrustP... by specialist on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @05:34PM (#26083352)

About 1/3rd of my bad reviews are now flagged "sensitive" (belatedly), so no longer normally visible.

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Re:Man to pay £25,000 ($34,000) damages over negative TrustP... by dylan604 on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @03:12PM (#26081904)

Reputation extortion as a service. I get the mental image that this is how the mob has evolved. No longer are knuckle dragging guidos with crooked noses walking door to door in the neighborhoods offering protection services. "It'd be a shame if something were to happen..." but online.

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