As long as "free days" are granted, the fake reviewers will continue hoping that they will squeeze through.
Perhaps a nominal fee to have a sign in, and then the ability to do reviews will be granted, where only then, can free days be granted? After a certain amount (time/reviews/etc), then the account is free?
It's easy enough to write a very generic fake review with limited information. So I don't understand why some of these guys basically copy other reviews word-for-word.
Usually when I see a lady it's one that I have on my favorites list and I always read their new reviews when they get one. Not sure what others do. So in the case I described above I was reading the review and I thought "shit, this sounds familiar" and I had a feeling it was mine. I went back and read my review again and there it was - whole paragraphs copied from my review. What a dope this guy was.
Yeah, that type of shit needs to be reported. You might want to follow that up with a Contact Us message to the admins if you don't see it go away or not see some type of response from TER tothe PR you sent.
I wonder if TER has considered looking for some (or developing a simple) plagiarism identification tool as part of the review validation process. I suspect there are some free versions that might be able to be configured to just using it's review DB. That might be nice.
That would be more helpful I think than the reports, though TER is based on the idea of community self-policing. Like fake reviews there is an element of wack-a-mole that will always be present and I don't think we should get too worked up if both are present on the site. Utopias just don't exist in this reality. I do still think that TER is probably as good or better than any other review type sites -- and here I'm thinking Yelp, Amazon and things like Angie's List -- when you look for signal to noise ratios.
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