{"id":710252,"date":"2010-04-06T15:51:10","date_gmt":"2010-04-06T19:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10004202"},"modified":"2010-04-06T17:26:58","modified_gmt":"2010-04-06T21:26:58","slug":"spot-fake-online-reviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/710252","title":{"rendered":"Spot Fake Online Reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/04\/fakelashes-thumb-165x129-38988.jpg?w=780\">         <\/p>\n<p>Here are some warning signs that an online review is being left by a shill, or shills:<\/p>\n<p>The reviews:<\/p>\n<p>*  Have zero caveats, and are full of empty adjectives and pure glowing praise with no downsides.<br \/>\n* Are all left within a short period of time of each other.<br \/>\n* Mainly tally off product features. (Real users talk more about perofrmance, reliability, and overall value).<br \/>\n* Reviewers names are all variations of one another, i.e. happykat1234, happykat7593, happykat6687<\/p>\n<p>Online reviews are just another data point to use when researching a product, and they&#8217;re best when taken in aggregate. Skim a slew of them so that you get a general sense of the tone and to figure out if there&#8217;s a common complaint, or piece of praise, that keeps cropping up.<\/p>\n<p>What techniques do you use to spot fake online reviews? Leave your thoughts in the comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some warning signs that an online review is being left by a shill, or shills: The reviews: * Have zero caveats, and are full of empty adjectives and pure glowing praise with no downsides. * Are all left within a short period of time of each other. * Mainly tally off product features. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3568,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-710252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2YLG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3568"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=710252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=710252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=710252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=710252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}