Fake reviewers face the wrath of Khan Fake review writers are officially on watch - the US is now enforcing a new rule to ban the practice and is promising a crackdown. "As of today, @FTC's final rule banning fake online reviews and testimonials has come into effect," the head of the agency Lina Khan wrote on X (formerly Twitter). "If you encounter any of these …
"Companies will also be on the hook for a fine if they knowingly purchase a good review, or a bad one of a competitor's product or service."
Actually does mention 'Bad' reviews of competitors product or service ... ^^^^^
:)
"Ok smartarse, how about the countries we have on Earth?"
If that was real, I wouldn't be replying this post. USA isn't an almighty empire anymore. Russia + China have more nuclear power combined - and hypersonic missiles.
Proof? Try to visit thepiratebay - it is still online, despite USA
The US have aircraft carriers and F35s (and also some planes that actually do work) - not sure if $(south-east-asian-reviewfarm) has them as well...
What they are going after is US companies that buy reviews for their products. Every little bit helps. No, it won't help us on the other side of the pond.
My issue isn't that other people working higher up in companies post multiple reviews normally 5* but that if you search for "glass door *company name*" it'll show 5* or whatever next to the results as glass door show you the best reviews first, so a quick Google before entering the site makes you believe they're a good company.
"Please rate our thing"...
Can you at least let me got the thing out of the box and try it first!!!!
I gave up on KPI (0-9) ratings when I discovered that 0-6 described you as a "detractor" and only 8-9 as a "promoter". Previously I had been scoring (mandatory) "never used it/don't know" as 5, assuming it to be neutral rather than anti
Bought some RCA-to-HDMI adapters. They came with a 1-year warranty. When they arrived, I discovered that, in order to get the warranty, the user was required to post a *good* review of the product.
Reported the scam to the selling site, and left an honest review, which would definitely not qualify for the warranty.
> KPI (0-9) ratings when I discovered that 0-6 described you as a "detractor" and only 8-9 as a "promoter"
Yeah see that a lot, anything under an 8 is considered poor performance, like you a 5 for me is "did the job", and 8+ means they moved heaven and earth to get the problem solved.
You expect a 10? Just don't ask what I expect for that!
Backlinks should be targeted too.
Consider this propaganda site: trtworld.com. It is getting* a lot of planted backlinks from many Wikipedia articles, because Wikipedia has high PageRank. Some SEO company is involved. Also YouTube channels tend to rank higher when they get back-links.
*https://ahrefs.com/backlink-checker
"To the last I grapple with thee; from hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee. "
I couldn't quite place the quote but nice one. Not sure I would be comfortable on the same planet as Ms Khan if I were the target of such sentiment.
Septics are probably more familiar with Melville's work than we are in these parts.
I noticed some "review hijacking" last year on Amazon. The first time I saw this was when I was looking for some USB thumb drives (for ISO boot images, and BIOS updating).
I'm in the habit now of not just looking at review scores, but actually checking out some of the reviews themselves.
On reading, the reviews didn't make much sense at first, until I realised they were all talking about a kids sticker book!
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