Quote:
Originally Posted by Giggleton
The professional reviewers are known to set up multiple accounts, deleting false reviews is curing the symptom while ignoring the disease.
But are you referring to running all reviews through a filter after submitting but before publishing? That has possibilities but I am mainly interested in the power of collective human cognition. Until we do develop a strong AI, the best judge of a reviews merit is going to be the users of a review site themselves. The readers of any decent ebook site need to be given the collective power to delete any and all reviews they deem to be unworthy of being.
 |
That would put too much power in the hands of fringe lunatics. Amazon removed a lot of books a while ago due to co-ordinated pressure from such people.
An automated system could flag suspicious posts for manual review based on keywords, interval between purchase and posting, geographic location of poster, similarity between other posts by that person, all sorts of things.