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Old 04-18-2011, 01:53 PM   #35
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Originally Posted by mr ploppy View Post
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.
Amazon doesn't require purchase to post a review; they want people to post reviews of books they already own.

This mostly falls under "all complex ecosystems have parasites"--it doesn't matter how effective your scarecrows & pesticides are; if you don't assign a human to protect the crops at some point, bugs & birds will destroy the field. Amazon & many other sites want an all-automated protection system, and it's never going to be entirely effective, and never going to be effective enough after activity gets past a certain level.
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