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Re:Man to pay £25,000 ($34,000) damages over negative TrustP... by totalZero on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @12:35PM (#26080293)
This has been discussed previously on HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1149078

Not sure if the policies have changed since then, but I am inclined to believe him.

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Re:Man to pay £25,000 ($34,000) damages over negative TrustP... by dilyevsky on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @12:56PM (#26080525)
Just bc this one person didn’t see it doesn’t mean it didn’t happen. They’ve definitely taken my negative reviews down or made them invisible so I stopped using them
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Re:Man to pay £25,000 ($34,000) damages over negative TrustP... by totalZero on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @05:23PM (#26083213)
Just because they took your reviews down doesn't mean they did so corruptly rather than according to algorithm/policy.
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Re:Man to pay £25,000 ($34,000) damages over negative TrustP... by dilyevsky on Sunday February 14, 2021 @05:34PM (#26136929)
Right the algorithm ofc takes “fairness” and “user experience” as its training inputs no doubt
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