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Re:Fake Amazon reviews 'being sold in bulk' online by onlyrealcuzzo on Monday February 15, 2021 @10:51PM (#26150721)
I understand false positives are a problem - but why can't they simply only show / count reviews they are 99.9% certain AREN'T fake.

You might only show 80% of all user reviews - but if 10% of your reviews are fake - then you're only hiding 10% of real reviews.

Who cares? Amazon definitely doesn't have a problem of not having enough reviews. It does have a problem of having too many products with almost entirely fake reviews.

Re:Fake Amazon reviews 'being sold in bulk' online by 8ytecoder on Monday February 15, 2021 @11:53PM (#26151073)
Or, add a flag to indicate "Potential paid review" along with discounting it in the avg calculation.