A mirror of Hacker News' best submissions.
It’s a good thing I pay very little attention to online reviews. Amazon is another service whose reviews are for sale. Fuck all this corporate manipulation.
It’s just shitty that this exists. I think a year of jail for every incident of manipulation would be awesome.
A year in jail for writing an overly positive movie review? Lmao
No. For cases of companies being caught manipulating ratings. The person responsible for it (usually head of marketing) goes behind bars for a year. Think how many people will want to do that in the future.
As someone really smart in a forum I visited once said: if you put a fine on it, it’s just a price tag for the company. I mean sure, if you take 10% of their revenue, you might actually ruin them, which also should work making it not feasible to do this.
The important part is that normal people have to deal with significant ramifications if they overstep the rules without really harming society with it. Think of running red lights. So imo, companies must face the same serious setbacks if they do things that actually harm society.
I think suspicion started to settle in once movie trailers started advertising their RT scores.
Brb, off to go scrub this deep into the faces of everyone who told me this is just a silly conspiracy theory