It's a violation of the Terms of Service to attempt to artificially inflate a book's review rankings by creating sock puppet accounts to
leave fake reviews, or hiring or bartering with others to do the same.
In other cases, self - published authors like John Locke and Stephen Leather pay people to leave positive reviews or
leave fake reviews themselves.
Then, Yelp sued the very same bankruptcy lawyer alleging that he was
leaving fake reviews (a / k / a astroturfing).
Not exact matches
By incorporating users» social media accounts and allowing only those who have used the product or service to
leave a
review, you reduce the probability of users creating
fake reviews to boost their reputation.
The site is referring to
fake reviews that were
left strictly due to the author's political affiliation rather than anything to do with the book.
This is when authors
leave reviews... good or bad... with multiple identities and
fake names to either promote their own books or sabotage other authors.
Leaving fake one star
reviews isn't wrong.
This helps prevent
fake reviews from people who never shop at Amazon and may receive payment to
leave reviews.
From signing petitions in favour of DRM on the Xbox One, submitting
fake reviews en masse on Amazon and Metacritic, posting comments on YouTube videos forcing the likes of Toys R» Us to disable comments, Sony fanboys seem content with spending so much energy deriding everyone else's taste in gaming that we routinely wonder how they have any time
left over to play videogames.