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Amazon cooling rule (lemmy.nowsci.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 93 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Surely a company who makes a percentage of the total sale price would have no perverse incentive to create an algorithm that artificially sugar coats reviews. /s

[–] [email protected] 28 points 10 months ago

People shopping on Amazon are already very likely to buy there. They don't have a great incentive to falsely inflate reviews for items that they are unaffiliated with