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A comment on FTC's rule banning fake online reviews goes into effect. Parent comment

Re:FTC's rule banning fake online reviews goes into effect by rendaw on Tuesday October 22, 2024 @12:58PM (#41916260)
Rating averaging methods _should_ treat scores with fewer data points as less trustworthy and either suppress showing the score or apply some early-rating bias. I.e. if users are sorting by rating new products should never be near the top.

Otherwise it should be possible to sort products or even brands/sellers by age and prefer older ones with more reviews.

I'm not sure Amazon does the first though ATM, and it definitely doesn't do the latter.

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Re:FTC's rule banning fake online reviews goes into effect by slipperybeluga on Tuesday October 22, 2024 @01:36PM (#41916643)
This doesn't help when every useless chinese widget on Amazon with a RNG created brand name has literally thousands or even tens of thousands of fake reviews. Yeah like 10,000+ were so enamored with this {insert useless item here} that they felt compelled to leave a 5 star review. Amazon has totally sold out like eBay. I don't shop on either anymore because it's hard to find real brands and feedback and reviews are fake. Not to mention the blatant fakes of major products ...
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Re:FTC's rule banning fake online reviews goes into effect by bluGill on Tuesday October 22, 2024 @03:20PM (#41917716)
Unfortunately some of the weird things I need I can't figure out who else sells them. I can search amazon or ebay and find someone but they don't have a presence elsewhere (at least not that I can find)
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Re:FTC's rule banning fake online reviews goes into effect by reaperman on Tuesday October 22, 2024 @02:19PM (#41917121)
Not sure why this was flagged - it echoes my experience pretty accurately!
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Re:FTC's rule banning fake online reviews goes into effect by alok-g on Wednesday October 23, 2024 @04:25AM (#41923006)
I do not think the collective rating on Amazon is a blind average of the individual reviews and ratings. So what you say is probably already being done along with use of other similar signals.
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