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Amazon Imposes Limit on Reviews

posted by on Friday December 02 2016, @04:33AM   Printer-friendly
from the Haribo-sugar-free-gummy-bears dept.

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

Online marketplace Amazon has placed a limit on the number of reviews shoppers can leave on the site.

In a bid to put a stop to false feedback, people can now write only five reviews a week of items not bought via the online store.

The change applies to most products and is part of efforts to clamp down on people selling positive comments.

The change is Amazon's latest step in its battle to ensure users trust its listings.

Hopefully this won't stop the sarcastic reviews that some serious products have attracted. They may be fake but they can be tremendously entertaining.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 02 2016, @06:38AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 02 2016, @06:38AM (#435836)
    It actually seems to be a serious maritime operations book that should be useful for the captains of smaller boats like yachts and trawlers who do need to learn techniques for avoiding collisions with much larger ships while sailing. This actually doesn’t sound like such a trivial task. The rather hilarious-sounding title makes for a lot of sarcastic reviews though.

  • (Score: 2) by charon on Friday December 02 2016, @06:51AM

    by charon (5660) on Friday December 02 2016, @06:51AM (#435838) Journal
    It's not the products that are fake; it's the reviews.