[QUOTE="Riverwolf007"][QUOTE="CaseyWegner"]
i did not know that. i suppose there's no harm in me trying, though.
BattlefieldFan1
here is what i posted last night before i came to the conclusion that dude is just totally delusional and completely ruled by emotion and gave up.user reviews are notorious for being bad in all kinds of different ways.
here is scientific americans article on it.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=manipulation-of-the-crowd
Web sites such as Amazon, TripAdvisor and Yelp have long depended on customers to rate books, hotels and restaurants. The philosophy behind this so-called crowdsourcing strategy holds that the truest and most accurate evaluations will come from aggregating the opinions of a large and diverse group of people. Yet a closer look reveals that the wisdom of crowds may neither be wise nor necessarily made by a crowd. Its judgments are inaccurate at best, fraudulent at worst.
and this from the information ethics roundtable at the university of arizona
Gaming the System: A Case Study
Manipulation of Online Consumer Reviews
http://www.u.arizona.edu/~bfulton/ierposter/
the problem is so bad that for you to even get the actual business specific scientific papers that break down the problem you have to read through things like this:
Built upon the discretionary accrual-based earnings management framework, our paper develops a discretionary manipulation proxy to study the management of online reviews. We reveal that fraudulent review manipulation is a serious problem for 1) non-bestseller books; 2) books whose reviews are **** fied as not very helpful; 3) books that experience greater variability in the helpfulness of their online reviews; and 4) popular books as well as high-priced books. We also show that review management decreases with the passage of time. Just like fraudulent earnings management, manipulated online reviews reflect inauthentic information from which consumers might derive wrong valuation especially for books with the above characteristics and be persuaded to purchase the wrong item. The findings from this research sound a note of caution for all consumers that make use of online reviews of books for making purchases and encourage them to delve deeper into the reviews without getting trapped in their fraudulent manipulation.
and give them money.
ok, so this specific one is for books but the same process happens to other media and i am sure they charge for dry academic analysis of those too.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167923610001375
Yeah, you definitely lack logic. I love how you try to simplify an complex process by calling it off as "troll reviews skewing score". There are anomalies, and gears 3 and reach reviews were anomalies.hey everybody look at me! i have no idea on how quotations work now it is time for a rant on gears of war woop woop!:lol:
thanks for helping me make my point.
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