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Old 09-17-2018, 09:24 PM   #25
SteveEisenberg
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Originally Posted by kcladyz View Post
best buy does it. there was a lot of bad battery reviews on the oasis then one day poof they were all gone.
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.
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