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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
They can't have it both ways. Either it's something they're proud of and they've taken steps to preserve, or it's something they don't really give a damn about (in which case it shouldn't matter if it gets deleted).
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You make it sound as if pride is a black and white thing, that a person must be as proud of their few paragraphs of review as they are of a doctoral thesis, or don't care in the slightest. You don't really believe that only those extremes exist, do you?
I would assume that very few people who have a review rejected will care so much as to bother to raise a fuss. Unlike the example from the OP, most will shrug it away with varying degrees of unvoiced disgruntlement. I suspect a goodly proportion will react to the effect of: "Well, if they don't want reviews I won't bother to give them any." Their silence on the matter will leave Amazon uninformed about the fact that they (Amazon) have made a mistake, indeed the silence may well be interpreted as a success "if they stopped posting reviews it must be because they were fakers that were caught out". This is what I meant earlier about the difficulties of even measuring the effectiveness of the strategy.
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Originally Posted by fjtorres
[...] And, hey, if Amazon disallows your review, why not take it to Apple or Kobo?
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If I bought from Amazon why should I think about going elsewhere? I realise that most people here have probably signed up with multiple stores, but I don't think MR is a good measure of the wider population. And if I sign up just to leave a review of a book I didn't buy at the store then the review loses credibility. (And since this sort of technology tends to spread I have no guarantee that my review will be accepted elsewhere.)