It used to be you could find trustworthy websites that reviewed products with a simple G**gl* search, when that went away, one could still parse Am*z*n reviews to discern distinctions, now...good luck?
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It's not *just* that there's no discourse on quality, it's that it's actually difficult to start a conversation without being wrecked by bad actors.
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Replying to @The_WGD @CovfefeAnon
It's been systematically dismantled. Easy to cook up just so stories about muh corporations, but I don't see the actual causality yet.
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My impression was that the Chinese paid other Chinese to spam untrustworthy reviews and scam Amazon, but that's long after Consumer Reports sold me a trash washing machine.
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That definitely happens (though probably a lot of Indians doing the drudgery, because of the language barrier) but it merely exemplifies the rule: there's now more money in befuddling the consumer than in informing him.
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There might always be. Discourse on quality only comes from non-financial coordination by a community to defend its interests.
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Hard to pull that off in the age of Amazon though. To me, the obvious move is to make an overlay network that tracks reputation and rewards people for accurate usable information. But that's already financializing trust – still creates incentives for scams.
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It's fundamentally in the interest of amazon, ali baba etc. to manufacture the atomized consumer. To critique my own idea, it's a technological attempt to find a modus vivendi with the devil, not to defeat him.
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It's absolutely not in the interest of internet vendors to gain a reputation for selling exclusively low-quality goods.
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It's absolutely in the interests of internet vendors to make sure it appears their competitors are selling low quality goods..
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Sure, if you're a rival seller of some product but amazon doesn't want you to gain $x in sales by reducing competitors sales by ($x - $y) while also harming amazon's reputation.
It's a legitimately hard problem to solve.
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