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In article <94b9b5835db6b616cfdd9f7dd549cf0b@pseudo.borked.net>,
 DC <nobody@pseudo.borked.net> wrote:
> 1Up.com http://atu.ca/647
> 
> If you take a look at Spore's listing on Amazon.com 
> http://atu.ca/SPORE you may be surprised to notice that the 
> game (as of this writing) has an abysmal user rating of one-
> and-a-half stars. But that isn't necessarily an indictment 
> of the game's quality -- out of 184 customer reviews, 159 
> are one-star ratings, and just about all of them have one 
> thing in common: pure, vile hatred of the game's digital 
> rights management, or DRM (via Destructoid).

Quite a few of them have something else in common: they are from people 
who either have not written any amazon reviews before this, or are from 
people that had one or two reviews a long time ago, plus a negative 
Kindle review a year ago, and now this.

I don't know how widespread that is, but there is definitely some kind 
of organized attempt to rig the vote.

This wouldn't be the first time.  There's some anti-DRM people 
systematically tagging Kindle books with anti-DRM terms and slogans.

It's not just anti-DRM people who try to manipulate Amazon.  When Ron 
Paul's book came out, there was a call on a popular Paul website to go 
give the book five stars, and links to that quickly circulated.  It very 
quickly got several hundred 5 star reviews, and each of those was voted 
as helpful by hundreds of people (yup...not only did the Paul flock 
members have time to go to Amazon, make new accounts, and add 5 star 
reviews, they had time to go vote up each other's reviews).  

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--Tim Smith