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: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 02 2016, @09:33AM
Anyone considering buying a non-namebrand product from Amazon should use fakespot [fakespot.com] to get an idea of whether or not the seller is using shill reviews.
Its not 100% accurate, it seems to be over sensitive when there are only a small number of reviews. So its not a excuse to deep six your own critical thinking skills, but its a useful tool.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 02 2016, @02:05PM
Brilliant, thank you.