Review Spam

Originally posted by duchsauce Lol, this is epic!  So many people losing their points, they will log on and be crushed.  You should send the people who got free t-shirts a bill.

I  was doing that someone dropped from 750 points down to 6 hundred something in a matter of minutes. It's still dropping by the minute.

I mean I like this idea-- but don't forger about the law of unintended consequences

One might be against women getting an abortion, but the law of unintended consequence may dictate how they vote on the matter. They may not want women getting themselves sick or killed, or doing the same to their full-term baby, and thus cannot justify making abortion explicitly illegal.

Much of the same logic must be applied here. Sure, it is nice to get the spammers out, but what if the marketing division at Burton decided to hire 5 people to make 5 accounts just to search and destroy all negative comments on Burton boards...

Originally posted by InTheCartel Much of the same logic must be applied here. Sure, it is nice to get the spammers out, but what if the marketing division at Burton decided to hire 5 people to make 5 accounts just to search and destroy all negative comments on Burton boards...

wow, i don't think thats going to be a huge issue.

It could be any company, he does have a valid point though.

whohoo! yes, finally!

Originally posted by InTheCartel I mean I like this idea-- but don't forger about the law of unintended consequences One might be against women getting an abortion, but the law of unintended consequence may dictate how they vote on the matter. They may not want women getting themselves sick or killed, or doing the same to their full-term baby, and thus cannot justify making abortion explicitly illegal. Much of the same logic must be applied here. Sure, it is nice to get the spammers out, but what if the marketing division at Burton decided to hire 5 people to make 5 accounts just to search and destroy all negative comments on Burton boards...

Originally posted by percept Originally posted by xxsweet_jen24xx   Actually, this is a very different thing. We aren't deleting negative reviews. We are deleting reviews that do not contain actual reviews. These reviews were just made by people who went in and clicked buttons, and didn't even bother to write anything that would help someone who is thinking of purchasing the item. We aren't deleting them because we don't agree with what they had to say, we are deleting them because they didn't actually say anything. you misunderstood his post the same way i did. hes not saying WE would delete them.  He's saying that giving us the power to flag them also gives the same power to snowboard manufacturers to delete them.  so......burton could hire a team of guys to just scour the net, deleting neg reviews of their gear. not saying burton would do that...just saying i think thats what he meant.

Originally posted by icymallard Crap i just thought of another thing... what if I worked for Rome and every chance I get, i say YA i own 390's they are softer then average but super solid binderzzz i like them better than union forces... idunno i never rode forces.

what?

i don't get what you said.  can you repeat it in english?

sry i was just throwing the idea around that any of the forum posters could work for any certain company...

reviews are valuable here. this is sweet, good job!

Maybe do something like you just can review something if its in your "Have It" list, I know you can put anything you want there but I think you can know when someone is putting extra stuff.

Good work guys --- it is going to be really helpful to customers not seeking forum advice. 

Originally posted by sopel10 i sucks that most of the buttons on this site don't work at my computer at work linux+firefox+sierra=

what are your problems?  i'm on linux and firefox and don't see any issues here.  i'm on firefox on windows at work too and don't see any issues.  i don't think it has to do with linux if you're experiencing any issues.

Originally posted by InTheCartel I mean I like this idea-- but don't forger about the law of unintended consequences One might be against women getting an abortion, but the law of unintended consequence may dictate how they vote on the matter. They may not want women getting themselves sick or killed, or doing the same to their full-term baby, and thus cannot justify making abortion explicitly illegal. Much of the same logic must be applied here. Sure, it is nice to get the spammers out, but what if the marketing division at Burton decided to hire 5 people to make 5 accounts just to search and destroy all negative comments on Burton boards...

can we lock down good reviews?  this would fix that problem, but i don't think it's really ever going to be a problem.  any company is wasting a lot of time and money if they decide to do that, and it's not like burton really cares what reviews are on sierra.  BMB people might try to do it, but once again, they're wasting their time.

sierra i choose you!
sierra tackle!
sierra bite!
sierra kill!

Just ignore him, Timmay. We all know he sucks at life.

hmmm can't wait to get in on this fun 

Originally posted by MrStak Like I said earlier, in order to thwart a company teaming up to flag bad reviews of their product, maybe set it up so that people are allowed to flag bad reviews after a certain number of posts...like 100 or 200. That way, the lazy people who are here for free gear won't take the time to write up 200 posts just to flag good reviews. And if some company wanted to gang up and flag all the bad reviews of their product, they too would need to write up 200 posts before they could flag the bad stuff. Just a thought on how to counter act any potential

+1

i'm going to agree with MrStak's idea as well.  You have to be a certain level to give advice in the chat so why not with the review flagging.

Nice move Sierra!  but instead of deleting the review, just hide the review from the product page so the user have a chance to prove that the review is not a spam (this also helps the concern of companies trying to drop negative review).

found one

it is if you're a 13 year old goin thru puberty.

hahahahaha. wow

Originally posted by Jack Off http://www.sierrasnowboard.com/forum/member_profile.asp?PF=39482

ya, looks like his BS reviews are gone now

actually, they haven't. I flagged some of them, as they seem to be pure cut+paste and/or fiction