Apparently Amazon doesn't mind becoming a laughing stock

[Kyriakos]

1 like for the "top positive review". 6361 likes for the "top critical review", and yet 5 stars average. Seems legit.

So, Amazon massively deletes hundreds of 1 star reviews by verified Amazon buyers of the book, of the great book of Hillary's, titled "What happened?"

Book's page there is https://www.amazon.com/What-Happene...501175564/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8

Funniest thing is that articles on the scam by Amazon have been so many that you can easily notice that most of them show hundreds of more reviews numbered as by verified buyers of the book, than the current numbers!!! Which book now, of course, has a 5 star rating, when it had 2 stars with nearly the 900 ratings it CURRENTLY has at 5 stars

Damn it, Amazon, better start caring about your own service's reputation being tarnished.

1.0 out of 5 starsLike so many others my previous review has been taken ...
ByLannyon September 16, 2017
Format: Kindle Edition|Verified Purchase
Like so many others my previous review has been taken down because it was critical of Clinton's book. In my previous review I referenced her book Hard Choices...."Believe it or not I actually liked this book." Before Amazon took my previous down they used the line..."Believe it or not I actually liked this book" to highlight what I had supposedly said about What Happened. . If Amazon doesn't want our opinion stop asking for it. Joseph Stalin would be proud of you guys.

-WTH happened?

 

[Commodore]

WTH happened?

You know what happened. The leftist establishment is trying to control the narrative and make it seem like everyone loves Hillary's book and that there is still widespread support for her and her ideas.

 

[Kyriakos]

You know what happened. The leftist establishment is trying to control the narrative and make it seem like everyone loves Hillary's book and that there is still widespread support for her and her ideas.

It is the internet, with zero-hour articles and news updates, so it was a very bad move to strong-arm/erase negative reviews... Does no good to whoever did it

 

[jackelgull]

What happened were a bunch of people were reviewing the book without reading it and giving one star. Since this doesn't actually help give customers an accurate picture of what the book is about and what they'd be buying, Amazon began getting rid of reviews that were by people who had not been verified purchasing the book from Amazon.

Then again, Kyrakos can't seem to view Clinton objectively so it's not really surprising he'd be so misleading.

 

[Kyriakos]

What happened were a bunch of people were reviewing the book without reading it and giving one star. Since this doesn't actually help give customers an accurate picture of what the book is about and what they'd be buying, Amazon began getting rid of reviews that were by people who had not been verified purchasing the book from Amazon.

Then again, Kyrakos can't seem to view Clinton objectively so it's not really surprising he'd be so misleading.

Ehm, sorry bro, but that isn't the story at all... The story is that VERIFIED reviews that are negative (eg 1 or 2 star) get deleted. That means reviews by people who bought the book from Amazon. Did you even bother to read the review in the OP? Or go to the book's page where (a book with 5 star average) ALL the popular --and again, VERIFIED and with books Bought from Amazon -- reviews are of 1 or at most 2 stars? "Can't explain that".

https://www.amazon.com/What-Happene...501175564/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8

Picking one from there, others have even more thousands of upvotes..:
"Not very good. Really long and poorly written. Doesn't really have a point other than blaming others for her presidental loss. Almost unbearable to listen to ." "4290 people liked this review" You were saying?

 

[jackelgull]

Ehm, sorry bro, but that isn't the story at all... The story is that VERIFIED reviews that are negative (eg 1 or 2 star) get deleted. That means reviews by people who bought the book from Amazon. Did you even bother to read the review in the OP? Or go to the book's page where (a book with 5 star average) ALL the popular --and again, VERIFIED and with books Bought from Amazon -- reviews are of 1 or at most 2 stars? "Can't explain that".

https://www.amazon.com/What-Happene...501175564/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8

Picking one from there, others have even more thousands of upvotes..:
"Not very good. Really long and poorly written. Doesn't really have a point other than blaming others for her presidental loss. Almost unbearable to listen to ." "4290 people liked this review" You were saying?

The news source I read implied they weren't verified. Since I trust you to tell the truth on Clinton about as much as I'd trust the GOP, I'm just gonna assume the Guardian source is telling the truth. I am willing to accept that Amazon may have made a few mistakes, but I call bs on this being a cozy up between Amazon and Clinton, or there being any more untoward besides Amazon being so used to deleting unverified 1 star reviews that a few legit one star reviews got caught in the crossfire.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2...tar-reviews-of-hillary-clintons-what-happened

 

[Kyriakos]

The news source I read implied they weren't verified. Since I trust you to tell the truth on Clinton about as much as I'd trust the GOP, I'm just gonna assume the Guardian source is telling the truth. I am willing to accept that Amazon may have made a few mistakes, but I call bs on this being a cozy up between Amazon and Clinton, or there being any more untoward besides Amazon being so used to deleting unverified 1 star reviews that a few legit one star reviews got caught in the crossfire.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2...tar-reviews-of-hillary-clintons-what-happened

Eh, maybe look at the horse's mouth, instead of pontificating? I gave you the actual PAGE of the book in AMAZON, now all you have to do is read the reviews below the book, which -- sadly for Amazon -- are the most upvoted ones by default. You can read, swim through the sea of Verified buyers saying time and time again "you erased x reviews by me, will you erase this too?".

Anyway, from the page (you only have to look at it, m8, ah, anyway)

"Amazon has deleted my verified purchase review without notification or any reason for 4 times now! I've had this Amazon account for years (not a fake account), I bought the book from Amazon (not a non-verified review) and posted only 1 review (not review brigading) on this book, and cited her book (not posting a review without reading the book), my review had hundreds of helpful votes (not a spam review). So I don't understand on what grounds Amazon deleted my review! Here is the original review" Verified purchase

"what happened to the negative reviews? Looks like Amazon is censoring. I read this book -- a curiosity but lacking true substance and introspection." Verified purchase

etc, won't post hundreds, you can read

 

[Commodore]

Since this doesn't actually help give customers an accurate picture of what the book is about and what they'd be buying, Amazon began getting rid of reviews that were by people who had not been verified purchasing the book from Amazon.

The reviews of people who give it five stars without reading it are just as harmful, yet you don't see Amazon deleting those. Funny that.

 

[Kyriakos]

Some more comedy:

1 like for the "top positive review". 6361 likes for the "top critical review".... ehm..... 3-day elections in Egypt under general Sissi.

 

[Evie]

Only 6361? The pro-Sanders and Pro-Trump wings of Reddit must have been asleep at the wheel. (And if it was a Trump book it'd be the pro-Clinton and pro-Sanders wing asleep at the wheel, and if it was a Sanders book...well, you get my drift)

"Likes" and "Dislikes" are a credible or relevant source for exactly nothing, particularly in dealing with controversial individuals and topics.

 

[Kyriakos]

Only 6361? The pro-Sanders and Pro-Trump wings of Reddit must have been asleep at the wheel. (And if it was a Trump book it'd be the pro-Clinton and pro-Sanders wing asleep at the wheel, and if it was a Sanders book...well, you get my drift)

"Likes" and "Dislikes" are a credible or relevant source for exactly nothing, particularly in dealing with controversial individuals and topics.

Nice theory, you could have spared yourself from it by just clicking at Bernie's book page on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Bernie-Sande...all_top?ie=UTF8&reviewerType=avp_only_reviews Nah, looks nothing like the scam with WTH Happened For starters, the stats look more real, and then the actual positive reviews have the massive number of upvotes.

 

[Zkribbler]

Eh, maybe look at the horse's mouth, instead of pontificating? I gave you the actual PAGE of the book in AMAZON, now all you have to do is read the reviews below the book, which -- sadly for Amazon -- are the most upvoted ones by default. You can read, swim through the sea of Verified buyers saying time and time again "you erased x reviews by me, will you erase this too?".

It only makes sense that thousands of people would have rushed out to buy this book on the day it was published and, in a day or two, having read all 500+ pages, posted a negative review containing no specific criticisms, while finding all other negative reviews "helpful." To think otherwise would be to imply there was a highly-funded right-wing hatchet job at work.

 

[Kyriakos]

It only makes sense that thousands of people would have rushed out to buy this book on the day it was published and, in a day or two, having read all 500+ pages, posted a negative review containing no specific criticisms, while finding all other negative reviews "helpful." To think otherwise would be to imply there was a highly-funded right-wing hatchet job at work.

Would be a good point if Amazon itself didn't claim they took out zero-ish hour reviews from both sides, and that supposedly 51% of the zero-hour reviews they took out were positive. We aren't in zero-hour time now, though, so i suppose this isn't the issue (unless you want no reviews there to be up )

 

[JollyRoger]

I tried to read it, but it was Greek to me. One star.

 

[Kyriakos]

I tried to read it, but it was Greek to me. One star.

He is not even greek (nor she)

 

[Ryika]

and that supposedly 51% of the zero-hour reviews they took out were positive.

T ~50% ratio is correct, as can be seen by this screenshot I took shortly after release:

(Proven by the fact that there are no unverified 5-star releases from that time left in the review logs)

(Funfact: I took the screenshot because I originally wanted to create a thread about it, because it's such a great metaphor for America - just came out, people couldn't possibly have finished reading it, but one side is already pretending it's the best thing ever written, and one side pretending it's the worst thing to ever have been created.)

"I cried through the whole thing. I didn't know how much I needed this. She is the people's president. Thank you, Hillary, for coming back and sharing your journey with us. We (the majority of voting Americans) missed you."

 

[Zkribbler]

We aren't in zero-hour time now,

I was commenting on the ones you posted. Indeed, they weren't posted at zero hour. They were D+2..

I don't reall ever finishing a 500-page book that I hated in just two days.

 

[Arent11]

1 like for the "top positive review". 6361 likes for the "top critical review", and yet 5 stars average. Seems legit.

So, Amazon massively deletes hundreds of 1 star reviews by verified Amazon buyers of the book, of the great book of Hillary's, titled "What happened?"

We all know that the rating system of Amazon is not perfect & can easily be manipulated. However, until now, at least in Germany, I did not have the impression that leftist books are shielded from criticism.

There are other groups/corporations that are far more problematic. For example the state-financed television in Germany.

 

[Traitorfish]

Amazon

The leftist establishment

what.

 

[Kyriakos]

what.

This isn't about red-haired archers