If you buy something from a company, for example a car, and there is a minor issue which they should correct but don’t, it is often hard to force them to correct it without lots of hassle and cost.
These companies rely on good reviews, or rather avoiding bad ones. Is there a ReviewBot you could start that will automatically send them bad reviews until they agree to fix your issues? The thought being that the nuisance of them deleting the bad reviews is greater than the effort/cost to fix the thing that they should fix anyway.
2 reviews a week from a set of a dozen bad reviews. Sent from an IP address that changes each time with an address somewhere within 30 miles of their shop.
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I could do with one to get my spare key out of a local van dealer.
It does seem that it should be relatively easy for someone to write but I couldn't see anything when I googled it.
I think that's because most could review sites go out of their way to avoid being spammed
Otherwise companies would write their own reviews, other companies would spike their competitors reviews and people would blackmail companies to pay them or they would set the bots in them. I think this would only have worked in the 90s, everything is much more cynical now
there must be one as there are entire farms doing positive reviews for stuff on amazon ;D
I think that is because a lot of the review technology is designed to specifically stop this kind of stuff from happening. If it were easy to do, then you could effectively flood a service/product with bad reviews to destroy its business, or spam out a product with good reviews even though it was shit. Amazon has a lot of time trying to stop that (well, they say they do) and it still happens.
So, people will need user account, prof of ID or a captcha or something to try and validate that the review relates to a person and an actual event that is legit.
Of course, AI will totally screw all this
The thought being that the nuisance of them deleting the bad reviews is greater than the effort/cost to fix the thing that they should fix anyway.
They use AI bots to delete the bad reviews. Humans never read them.
So, people will need user account, prof of ID or a captcha or something to try and validate that the review relates to a person and an actual event that is legit.
I need an amazon account to post a review of a product - but Amazon seems to have no interest as to whether I bough that product on amazon, or even seemingly care if I bought it at all and will happily publish reviews on anything I like. So they're not interested in the validity of an'event'. Quite different to eBay etc where feedback / reviews are linked actual transactions
