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1 HN user recommended this in 2023, in one comment.
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1 HN user recommended this in 2023, in one comment.
Each tall tick is one HN user's first recommendation. A short tick is the same user again. Click a tick to jump to the comment.
>They think Amazon reviews are useful
Amazon reviews are still useful because many times, people will point out some negative aspects and defects of the product that I didn't think of. This helps me avoid buying a lot of junk. (My previous mattress buying example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24197305)
Yes, reviews can be gamed but there's still some signal in the noise.
On the hand, many product categories in Amazon have useless reviews because they group unrelated SKUs together into 1 page. E.g. different harddrive models of different capacities made across different years from different countries of origin. E.g. everybody writing 1-star reviews of the bad Seagate 3TB drives is irrelevant to assessing the 4TB and 10TB drives. E.g. 24000+ combined reviews for unrelated harddrives released across 15+ years : https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-IronWolf-12TB-Internal-Drive/...