Amazon bans incentivized reviews tied to free or discounted products, except those from its Amazon Vine product review program
mostly Nate Hoffelder / The Digital Reader : The Real Story: Amazon Bans Free Review Samples Which Compete With Its Amazon Vine Program Chris Mills / BGR : Amazon reviews are about to get way better Bryan Menegus / Gizmodo : Amazon Finally Bans Shady Practice That Messes Up Reviews Bryan Clark / The Next Web : Amazon finally kills the review scheme responsible for millions of shady ratings Ed Carson / Investor's Business Daily : Amazon Cracks Down On ‘Incentivized Reviews’ Nick Statt / The Verge : Amazon is cracking down on biased customer reviews Elizabeth Weise / USA Today : Amazon bans ‘incentivized’ reviews The Seattle Times : Amazon bans most incentivized reviews from site Tweets: Cyrus Shepard / @cyrusshepard : Amazon cracks down on “incentivized reviews” http://www.amazon.com/... Fake paid reviews still fine http://twitter.com/... @kakurady : - incentivized reviews have selection bias - 0.38 star difference enough to boost a product from the 54th percentile to the 94th percentile. http://twitter.com/...