Sun_Cat wrote:Yeah, that's a pretty effective filtering system they have, that rejects reviews containing "price" and lets that one pass.
I reported it, FWIW. It will be interesting to see whether it stays.
In the meantime, a new review has popped up from a reviewer who confesses that he has not read the book, because he just can't get past the name of the main character. Democracy is in action, though. These two prank reviews have received nine "not helpful" votes from the good readers of B&N reviews. And a good thing too, since I'd hate to see Jo Nesbø (the author of the book) or Barnes and Noble lose any business on account of some unfortunate user being swayed by these two rather compelling and wholly negative reviews.
Lasseter wrote:
Sun_Cat wrote:Yeah, that's a pretty effective filtering system they have, that rejects reviews containing "price" and lets that one pass.
I reported it, FWIW. It will be interesting to see whether it stays.
In the meantime, a new review has popped up from a reviewer who confesses that he has not read the book, because he just can't get past the name of the main character. Democracy is in action, though. These two prank reviews have received nine "not helpful" votes from the good readers of B&N reviews. And a good thing too, since I'd hate to see Jo Nesbø (the author of the book) or Barnes and Noble lose any business on account of some unfortunate user being swayed by these two rather compelling and wholly negative reviews.
Ugh, I hate reviews like that. I mean, yeah, we're all entitled to our opinions, and free speech and all that, but geez, write something useful for the people that are going to read the review later.
So, yeah, the system is a mess, but a good part of the problem is that there are a lot of unhelpful people using it. 
