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Originally Posted by Giggleton
There could also be incentives for reviewing, small amounts from each sale of a book could be given to the reviewers of the book. This will of course bait the hooligans but steps can be taken to keep them out. But weak reviews will result in weak sales/donations so any hooligan wishing to game the system by writing fraudulent reviews will find that their prior methods no longer work.
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That in itself would lead to review abuse of the opposite type. Who would give a less than glowing review to something that they have the potential to profit from?
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Originally Posted by Giggleton
we aren't talking about a big box book website here, we are talking about a local estore.
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How can you have anything local on the internet? I don't think I would want to have to submit work for review to lots of local mini-stores and wait for them all to go live. It's bad enough having to put them on different warez sites instead of just one big central one for them to filter down from, that would create too much extra work.
But I do like the idea of geo-restricting them to people who live in Barnsley. It would save me the worry of whether anyone else would understand a word of it.