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Originally Posted by fjtorres
There are known backscratching rings that have been gaming the reviews.
They needed to go. Ditto with the paid reviewers they've been suing.
Reviews exist for buyers, not vendors, so pruning anything suspicious is good business sense. The tinfoil hat crowd is of not enough consequence compared to the credibility of the reviews with the buyers. Losing a few hundred buyers is a small price to pay.
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I totally agree with your assessment, and I will add this:
There's way too much incestuous cronyism involved, along with the back-slapping 'good ole boy [girl]' mentally going on when it comes to reviews posted on Amazon. It needed to stop, and Amazon has finally done something proactive about it.
I say,
"Good for you, Amazon, and thank you for keeping an eye out on these bottom-breeding 'pay-me-and-I'll favorably-review-your-product' scammers.
And I will add this:
"And Gramma just loves your new book."