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Article #721050Re: Games Reviewers Not Doing The Job Properly
From: Warewolf
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2015 16:51
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2015 16:51
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Justisaur <just...@gmail.com> wrote in news:6ce15095-f3ef-4...@googlegroups.com: > On Sunday, July 19, 2015 at 8:55:01 PM UTC-7, Rin Stowleigh wrote: > >> But things are not what they used to be, that much is certain. > > I generally agree, but you need a large number of non-professional > reviewers. It works for computer games as there are enough people > reviewing things. It seems to work fairly well with amazon if there's > enough reviews. I find the same on rotten tomatoes, you have to look > at audience scores, the reviewer's scores are not to be trusted. With Amazon, I tend to check the negative reviews as well as the positive ones. All-too-often, the positive reviews are damage control by corporate shills. >_< > However I keep trying to use Yelp, and have been repeatedly burned by > places that have high reviews, even with mid 30 numbers of reviewers. > Horrible burger places, chinese food, and repair shops that get very > high reviews. Still trying to find a better way for the local stuff, > but doesn't seem to be possible, there just aren't enough people > able/willing to review to overcome the astroturf. For a while, Yelp was deleting reviews that were posted my 'Non-Members' and this hurt the sales of many businesses in my area. Nowadays, I can only assume that they're deleting reviews that bash their (paying?) members and bolster the non-member 'riff-raff'. -_- It's why word of mouth is better overall. 9_9 Signed, Warewolf
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