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  1. Re:So their ratings are now going to become as... by Bodhammer · · Score: 1 · on Netflix Is Ending Reviews July 30th

    https://www.fakespot.com/

  2. Re:So their ratings are now going to become as... by Bodhammer · · Score: 1 · on Netflix Is Ending Reviews July 30th

    https://www.fakespot.com/

  3. FakeSpot! by Fnord666 · · Score: 1 · on Amazon Bans Incentivized Reviews Tied To Free Or Discounted Products (techcrunch.com)

    The situation has gotten to the point where there are websites like fakespot.com that analyze the reviews for a product and generate a report based on how many reviews look to be "incentivized" or outright fake. It does seem to do a good job on most products.

  4. Fishy counter-reviews and "unhelpful" spamming by Suddenly_Dead · · Score: 1 · on Some Reversible USB-C Cables/Adapters Could Cause Irreversible Damage

    Just looking over Benson Leung's reviews list, some of these items are transparently fishy. For instance, this Benson review has nearly 50% "unhelpful", while the product page is fully of sketchy positive reviews. It's a USB cable, who takes photos and writes essays about them? Tried it in FakeSpot, and it figures the product has "68% low quality reviews".

    Fake positive reviews and "unhelpful" spamming on negative reviews. Does Amazon have any mechanism to deal with this type of gaming?

  5. Fishy counter-reviews and "unhelpful" spamming by Suddenly_Dead · · Score: 1 · on Some Reversible USB-C Cables/Adapters Could Cause Irreversible Damage

    Just looking over Benson Leung's reviews list, some of these items are transparently fishy. For instance, this Benson review currently has nearly 50% "unhelpful", while the product page is fully of sketchy positive reviews. It's a USB cable, who takes photos and writes essays about them (people with multimeters and cable testers aside)? Tried it in FakeSpot, and it figures the product has "68% low quality reviews".

    Fake positive reviews and "unhelpful" spamming on negative reviews. Does Amazon have any mechanism to deal with this type of gaming?

  6. Fake Reviews on Amazon by ameoba-light · · Score: 1 · on New Algorithm Recognizes Both Good and Bad Fake Reviews (thestack.com)

    If you haven't seen this, there is a service that looks at reviews to find if they are fake or not: http://fakespot.com/ From what I can gather about them, they also use clustering algorithms to detect the fake Amazon reviews.