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Originally Posted by PatNY
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
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^^This. With Amazon's long history and huge marketplace, reviews of particular releases of a book or movie get all jumbled together. There should be a way to tag/filter that a review is about the substance of the work--"Jaws is a masterpiece of moviemaking that illustrates ingenuity over effects in a pre-CGI era when everything couldn't be fixed in post."--versus the release--"The 40th Anniversary DVD has improved picture quality and a great 5.1 surround mix."
Can't tell the number of times I've had to slog through reviews about the VHS release (yikes) or earlier DVD releases that had problems.
If this fixes that sort of thing, more power to 'em.