I really don't see the review placements changing much from these new rules as the reviews with the most thumbs up were already being shown front and center. I don't see how this would change much.
Critical reviews won't be buried at all if they are helpful. They could instead jump up to the front. Unhelpful critical reviews will be buried -- as they should be.
What I wish Amazon would try to change and minimize is their practice of having multiple product options on one product page -- which results in different product reviews being mixed together. This is very unhelpful and can be very misleading. This has bothered me for years.
--Pat
|