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Hitch · 08-09-2021, 12:11 PM

So...

Not that I'm naïve or anything, but, this has now happened more than a few times and it's irking me.

I recently checked out a new TV show on IMDB. The reviews seem pretty heavily slanted toward "no," so I thought I'd read them.

To my utter non-surprise, the reviews seemed to be two groups--1-2-3 stars and 8-9-10 stars. There are allegedly 315 total reviews, and 7K-something "ratings" for it, right?

But wait...and what to my wondering eyes should appear, but duplicate reviews. Not just a few, mind you. I became intrigued by them and reported, as duplicates, over 80--80!--reviews. Now, given that the reviews were running roughly half-half, with positive and negative, is it me, or does that mean that 25% of the positive reviews were utter bollicks BS? I mean, 80 dupes means 160-ish 8-9-10 reviews, of which half were nonsense/dupes.

Out of 315.

I've seen this before and the first time I reported such heavy-duty dupe activity, I stupidly thought it was a glitch. The second time, I suspected paid reviews. But now? And--interestingly--the review that *I* wrote, mentioning all the duplicate positive reviews, was declined by the site. (Twice now).

Oddly enough (cough cough) not ONE negative review had been duplicated, so it's not a technical glitch. Only 8-9-10s.

Come on, Amazon. We all know you have the Hellbots. You can sniff out personal relationships with 5 degrees of separation. Are you REALLY telling me that you can't sniff out word-for-word duplicated (positive) reviews, on IMDB?

Gimme a break.

Hitch

08-09-2021, 12:11 PM	#34609
Hitch Bookmaker & Cat Slave Posts: 11,503 Karma: 158448243 Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Phoenix, AZ Device: K2, iPad, KFire, PPW, Voyage, NookColor. 2 Droid, Oasis, Boox Note2	Reviews, more reviews and hooo, boy, even more reviews... So... Not that I'm naïve or anything, but, this has now happened more than a few times and it's irking me. I recently checked out a new TV show on IMDB. The reviews seem pretty heavily slanted toward "no," so I thought I'd read them. To my utter non-surprise, the reviews seemed to be two groups--1-2-3 stars and 8-9-10 stars. There are allegedly 315 total reviews, and 7K-something "ratings" for it, right? But wait...and what to my wondering eyes should appear, but duplicate reviews. Not just a few, mind you. I became intrigued by them and reported, as duplicates, over 80--80!--reviews. Now, given that the reviews were running roughly half-half, with positive and negative, is it me, or does that mean that 25% of the positive reviews were utter bollicks BS? I mean, 80 dupes means 160-ish 8-9-10 reviews, of which half were nonsense/dupes. Out of 315. I've seen this before and the first time I reported such heavy-duty dupe activity, I stupidly thought it was a glitch. The second time, I suspected paid reviews. But now? And--interestingly--the review that I wrote, mentioning all the duplicate positive reviews, was declined by the site. (Twice now). Oddly enough (cough cough) not ONE negative review had been duplicated, so it's not a technical glitch. Only 8-9-10s. Come on, Amazon. We all know you have the Hellbots. You can sniff out personal relationships with 5 degrees of separation. Are you REALLY telling me that you can't sniff out word-for-word duplicated (positive) reviews, on IMDB? Gimme a break. Hitch