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Originally Posted by kcladyz
best buy does it. there was a lot of bad battery reviews on the oasis then one day poof they were all gone.
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That doesn't mean bribery. It could be like an TV advertisement where they interview actual customers and pick out the most impressively positive comments.
I realize it feels different because of the technique of allowing a certain number of negative reviews in order to give the positive ones more plausibility. But how different is it than saying 4 out of 5 dentists recommend XYZ, and, thus, 1 out of 5 do not?
If a vendor did delete most bad reviews as a corporate policy, it would be only borderline bad IMHO. What's totally bad is the amazon.cn policy of not selling mainstream non-fiction books that are even mildly critical of the government. I just did a search there on author Jung Chang and confirmed they are still censoring (self-censoring?) their China web site book selection.