Sentences with phrase «many fake reviewers»

Manuscripts sent to these fake reviewers invariably received positive reviews that helped get the paper accepted.

In 2012, the Elsevier journal Optics & Laser Technology retracted 11 papers after an unknown party gained access to an editor's account and assigned papers to fake reviewer accounts.

In at least one case, the authors of a retracted article claim they didn't use an agency and did not propose fake reviewers — which suggests the journal's editors invited the fake review instead.

Blanford — a senior lecturer in biomaterials at the University of Manchester, UK — thought it was an «amusing coincidence» that he was chosen as a fake reviewer, given that he has written about malpractice in academic publishing.

Clearly this is fraud and the fact that GR compiles a list of these fake reviewers, and acknowledges their top fake reviewers show they are fully aware that hundreds of phony reviews are added to their site every week.

This year Amazon filed three separate lawsuits in the past year targeting more than 1,000 alleged fake reviewers.

Russell Smith criticizes the dark side of business when fake reviewers were exposed.

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The online book retailer has announced that it will sue 1,114 «fake reviewers» in a lawsuit filed in Seattle, Washington.

In the UK store a fake reviewer hit me and a group of other books with a one star on the same day and identical ambiguous review «rubbish» and amazon stated each reader is entitled to an opinion.

Additionally, the Cornell researchers found that when it comes to hotels, fake reviewers tended not to talk about the spatial details — such as the floor or bathroom.

If most of them are either completely positive or negative, it might be a case of the company hiring fake reviewers (or simply making them themselves with fake accounts) to even out the score ratio.

These aren't the only ways to spot a fake, of course, and fake reviewers are going to become more sophisticated over time.

Amazon is broadening its campaign horizon against fake reviewers of the product.

Not exact matches

The reviewer was right that there are a bunch of fakes but they \'re hard to miss so don \» t waste your time with them.

Check out FAKESPOT.COM sometime and look at the ratings for the items in the «Gold Box» and you will see that most of them get an «F» rating for being full of fake shill reviews from paid reviewers.

If you want to be taken seriously, figure out a way — UNPAID reviewers, seals of approval or awards that actually mean something and aren't just attempts to fake looking like read writers — for readers to find only professionally edited, competent, literate stuff.

There are so many fake reviews on sites like Goodreads (both 5 and 1 star) that it's hardly a system to be trusted, and even when only professional reviewers reviewed books, it was still the opinion of someone I don't know.

Users can hide behind their screen names, which of course leads to fake accounts, trolls, and now websites that «out» authors and reviewers!

As well as writing five - star reviews to help boost sales, these fake book reviewers can also offer to fabricate negative posts for individuals and businesses in an attempt to sabotage rival authors and books.

In other words, these fake book reviewers believe that they have the bully's perfect setup: a situation where they can bait and pester and harass someone who is in no position to fight back.

Now, with all this bad publicity, reviewers will be under suspicion, too: because, let's face it: how can you tell a real reviewer from a fake one?

I have no objection whatsoever to FAKE reviews being removed, but this thing with removing real ones and then treating the reviewer like a criminal is bad.

• You don't tell reviewers what to say or how to rate your book • They're free to say whatever they want, including something negative • Early readers aren't your personal best friends • Don't post any fake reviews by pretend people, or encourage anyone to do that for you

Which means that authors innocent of any wrongdoing get genuine, organic reviews from bona fide reviewers removed every day and the scammers and cheaters with fake reviews keep getting away with it.

The idea of stealing another writer's words or trying to discredit them or falsifying reviews or trying to have people write fake reviews of my work sounds crazy to me, but I am guilty of highlighting the parts of the PW review that I liked most about my most recent book; it was a mixed review bc the reviewer thought the novel had too many coincidences / was too neatly wrapped up at the end, but that's one of my signatures, I think, now that I've written three books, two published, and one in the works, so I'm actually proud of the strange kismet, sometimes magical occurrences that happen in my work because they also happen in my life, and that's what this whole post is about: about being true to oneself, which includes a moral code, a writers and human code of ethics.

4) The scammers who are paying for reviews are creating a situation where the paid reviewers are having to sprinkle in other fake reviews on non-paid-for items in order to make their accounts seem legitimate, so innocent bystanders are being taken out in the side effects of the paid review marketplace.

«I'm glad she liked it,» the guy who used to sell fake reviews says about the reviewer of his own book.

It's fine to have a review account in a fake name to keep a reviewer safe from retaliation.

But where I work journal editors were recently warned to check addresses provided for suggested reviewers in case the name was real and appropriate, but the address was fake.

The first thing to do when you receive a negative review is to decipher whether it's an actual customer's legitimate opinion or a false statement by a competitor or fake, paid reviewer; the former should be addressed, while the latter ought to be reported.

Notwithstanding Google's content policies, some reviewers use fake names and / or post reviews that are false and defamatory.

It can be difficult to spot fake reviews, and so pay attention to language (real reviews are typically more moderate in praise), research the reviewer if need be, check how many reviews are available and when they were posted (too many can be a red flag), and check multiple review sites, not just the lawyer's website.

Fakespot scans the language used in every review, and also checks the profile of every reviewer, then uses a number of factors to decide whether a given review is likely to be fake or not.

SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook's team of content reviewers focused mainly on violence and pornography, making it «incredibly easy» for Russian trolls to fly under the radar with their fake news, according to a former Facebook content monitor who worked at the social network for eight months in the lead - up to the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

In addition to hiring reviewers, it's also going to require that advertisers «confirm the business or organization they represent,» potentially helping to weed out fake groups.

Machine learning tools will assist trained human reviewers who, Facebook says, block millions of fake accounts at the time of registration...

The pictures could be fake, but early units of the Apple Watch have already been sent out to reviewers and celebrities.