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 MaxBarraclough on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @01:40PM (#26081049)

> This is a suitable problem to be solved by decentralised system.

That would also be open to abuse. It's difficult to stop dishonest PR firms (or anyone else) from flooding positive or negative comments.

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Re:Man to pay £25,000 ($34,000) damages over negative TrustP... by throw14082020 on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @02:37PM (#26081594)

I didn't think of that. That's true, a decentralised system would make reviews immutable (negative, or positive, fake or real reviews would still persist).

Does anyone have any ideas how to solve this?

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Re:Man to pay £25,000 ($34,000) damages over negative TrustP... by braveyellowtoad on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @03:37PM (#26082128)

That depends, is there a requirement for the solution to be free?

If you are happy to pay for this, then there are a variety of options with a sliding cost/usefulness/accuracy scale.

If you are looking for reliable, accurate, balanced reviews conducted by anonymous ethical independent agents, and you don’t think consumers of that information should pay for it, then I believe the answer is there is no perfect solution that satisfies all those constraints simultaneously.

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