Sentences with phrase «writing fake reviews»

Conley embarked on a vendetta against Bennett and others, posting comments on his and other blogs and on Twitter under fake identities, writing fake reviews on Avvo, and even threatening to seek Bennett's disbarment.

I also think it's a little ironic that the person who outed the guy writing the fake reviews was a writer who «bought» one of his reviews; I don't think she had any right to complain if she was buying into it.

The scope for writing fake reviews is present but is much lesser than any other medium.

Others have established that writing fake reviews was a cottage industry for this woman.

Vice writer Oobah Butler — who also recently impersonated a designer for Paris Fashion Week — already had a bit of experience with gaming review sites, having previously been paid to write fake reviews by a shady PR service.

They write fake reviews of adult dating sites.

On the whole Amazon should be praised for trying to clean up its reviews and guidelines, but they continue to go about it in a rash way, often punishing the authors as much as those that write fake reviews.

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.

And they're, like, «But you write fake reviews for books that probably suck!»

The Mate 10 Pro entered the market with no carrier partnerships, it has faced accusations of spying for the Chinese government, it was recently caught getting people to write fake reviews on Best Buy's website, and the FBI, CIA, and NSA have all warned against using Huawei products.

Huawei was accused of asking people to write fake reviews for the Mate 10 Pro on Best Buy's website in exchange for a chance to beta test the phone, but the company denies that this was the case.

Not exact matches

Tempted to write a glowing review of a friend's product under a fake name?

Unlike fake news stories that someone writes and then tries to spread virally through social media, artificial reviews work only if they are manufactured in volume and posted to sites where a particular item is sold or advertised.

In an e-mail exchange with Science, the Springer representative wrote, «We agree with what Cyril Labbé says in his quote [in the press release]: «Software can not replace peer reviews and academic evaluation, but SciDetect lends publishers an additional hand in the fight against fraud and fake papers.»»

In fact, if the reviews on acne websites average around somewhere in the middle then it's more likely you should disregard them; a portion of online reviews for products are nearly always fake or written by overly hopeful people who simply imagined the effects.

Apologies for the delay, I was meant to review this yesterday, but after I dropped a couple of hints on Twitter @ 30dates about how well the date with the Fake Pimpernel was going, I had too many demands for the date write - up, so decided to prioritise that post!

We strongly urge you to read our full review which took us many hours to write that explains detail by detail why this is fake.

-LSB-...] our full review which took us many hours to write that explains detail by detail why this is fake.

The most memorable are Raleigh St. Clair (Bill Murray), a bearded intellectual who has been married to Margot for years but does not begin to know her; Eli Cash (Owen Wilson), who lived across the street, became like a member of the family, and writes best - selling Westerns that get terrible reviews; Henry Sherman (Danny Glover), who was Etheline's accountant for 10 years until they suddenly realized they were in love, and such satellites as Pagoda (Kumar Pallana), Royal's faithful servant (who once in India tried to murder Royal and then rescued him from... himself...) and the bellboy Dusty (Seymour Cassel), who impersonates a doctor when Royal fakes a fatal illness.

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.

Another dealer in fake reviews, who posts under the name «Amazon Star», used their network to write a series of negative reviews for an e-book after being hired to sabotage a competitor.

In many third world countries, writing fake online reviews has become a growth industry.

In an excellent blog post, bestselling author and writing teacher David Farland takes on purveyors of plagiarism, fake reviews, purchased reviews, review - swapping schemes, attack reviews, etc..

I've also just written about the increasing problems with fake reviews: What's a 5 - star review worth?

The only way you can succeed is by lying and buying fake «awards» and «reviews» and selling stuff to naive people who are outside of the writing world and don't know that now readers need to check publishers» IDs before buying anything.

And the fact that they don't seem to want to take the extra time to sort out real from fake reviews, even after someone writes to complain, is truly upsetting.

Reviews will aid students to find the best as well as fake writing services online.

I can sort of understand the logic, you don't want writers who know each other writing fake good reviews, and you don't want spiteful writers writing mean reviews just to make another writer's book look bad, but I think Amazon needs to give more credit than that to writers as a group.

Not unless you don't care what kind of attention you get, of course — but given that companies who fake reviews online are now getting hit with massive fines in New York, you still might want to steer clear of paying anyone to write a bogus, needlessly positive review for you!

Then there was the piece the New York Times ran on restaurants and other companies who pay people to write fake good reviews for their products, and a similar piece by On The Media for WNYC (it's worth a listen!)

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Already, on the news this morning, 19 NYC restaurants are being fined for writing / buying fake reviews.

I found that some of the writing companies offering many discounts and other reward programs to catch the customers or students to sell their essays but most of them are fake sites or attracting the clients with fake reviews.

One of the most disappointing things in the review scandal last fall was discovering that some authors were actually writing fake 1 - star reviews for other authors in their genre, in some misguided hope they'd push their «rivals» off the bestseller lists.

A team of researchers at Cornell University created a computer algorithm for detecting fake hotel reviews by analyzing the language used in legitimate and phoney write - ups.

I decided to write this review two months after he helped me because I still see a lot of people that have similar problems as I did but nobody to help them and most of them have been scammed by fakes....

Furthermore, fake reviews were written across the net in an attempt to make the PS4 look bad.

One effort of mine came several years ago, in writing the introduction to Darryl Cunningham's clever graphic nonfiction book, «How to Fake a Moon Landing — Exposing the Myths of Science Denial» (nice review).

So this will be full of Realtors bad mouthing each other and writing glowing fake reviews of themselves.