Originally published at: http://boingboing.net/2016/07/20/review-skeptic-reviews-hotel-r.html
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Yes, but is there a Review Skeptic Skeptic to review the hotel review reviews?
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Sure is, but you can’t trust anything on it, according to Review Skeptic Skeptic Skeptic…
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I have a friend who works for one of those companies and we had a really interesting conversation about their algorithm and how any modifications they do to refine it to help trim out fake reviews is instantly greeted with a besieged phone bank of calls from hotels asking why their ranking has dropped one or two places.
Nobody apparently calls to ask why theirs went up however.
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Na-ah.
Will there ever be a system that gives the rank of a movie/hotel/restaurant based on people that have a similar vote history as yours?
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I’m starting a Review Review Review Review Skeptic Skeptic Skeptic Skeptic, but I’m not even sure what that entails anymore now that I’ve finished writing this.
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Netflix already does this.
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Your parentheses match, if that helps.
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Are we sure it’s not cumulative? (Review (Review (Review (Review (Skeptic (Skeptic (Skeptic Skeptic)))))))
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TripAdvisor does something more personal (for better or worse) where it tells you which of your friends have stayed at one hotel or gone to another local restaurant.
Personally I find it off putting, but others seem to like it.
It seems to me that a
is just null? So this would reduce to
Or does my argument belong in the skeptic tank?
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This site http://fakespot.com/ claims to do the same thing for Amazon reviews, based on such things as the individual history of the reviewers. I haven’t used it except to try it out, but I like the concept. 
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Also obligatory:
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