Fake reviews now generally necessary to do business online

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SOOOOOOOOO FRUSTRATING! Went on Amazon to buy a dongle headphone thing for my iPhone 7. Some of the things have a thousand reviews. But then you look closer and there will be hundreds of them all posted on the same day. Then hundreds more on a different day, and hundreds of others on another day. The few one and two star reviews are clearly from real people, but it is almost impossible to find anything that seems like an actual good review.

Well, we had a good run there for awhile. Now we will have to figure out some other way to figure out what’s good and what’s not. Dare I suggest ACTUAL stores?

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BoingBoing is the bestest blog commerades! DA! I promise I am not a paid Russian. Is not fake review.

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If I recall correctly, the incident with Campo Santos was basically due to anger at their abuse of the DMCA in relation to a popular YouTube streamer. I would assume it was PewDiePie enthusiasts rather than “Gamers” who leveraged Steam to retaliate in kind.

In any event, Mr. Vanaman’s contextless wailing about ‘exploitation’ leaves a bad taste in the mouth.

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