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Originally Posted by Barcey
Pruning is fine. It's how you handle the few that complain. All that Amazon had to do was say, "sorry our algorithm must have made an error, we've added your review back in".
Data mining is in it's wild west stage and there is going to be a lot of challenges to it. There needs to be a lot of debate about what is ok and what isn't, it can't be up to the money grubbers to unilaterally decide. Categorizing anyone that questions any aspect of it as a "tin foil hat crowd" is being naive. Bruce Schneier is a well respected security expert.
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Except they don't want the review back in.
Algorithms have sensitivity settings; they can always tweak them.
If they are excising reviews at x-degrees of separation it is because they chose to. Amazon is under no obligation to accept anybody's review.
A lot of people complaining about reviews likely have ulterior motives anyway.
Many of them are in fact back-scratchers or paid reviewers. Even true fans can be suspect.
Really, why would anybody raise a fuss if their unpaid review gets rejected, for whatever reason? You're helping Amazon sell product!
Don't like their policies, don't help them.
Don't want your social contacts tracked? Don't join public networks.