People will say that magazine writers get free reviews of products too. Yes, but they do not pose as a casual member of the public and disclose anything out of the ordinary…
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#19 – You are soo right! What else could start out looking like a delicate flower and then end up looking like a bulldog eating mayonaise?
Two things…
1) I’m 42mins in, and the statement at this point is that the reviewers are doing it for no compensation other than “leveling up” in the review rating system. As kind of a hobby. Many are also approached by publishers offering review books, and claim that they are not biased.
2) This is a farking lecture… why are the assholes in the audience conducting a dialogue with the lecturer when they’re so clearly unfamiliar with the basic subject matter, and are incapable of listening to the findings without first questioning the margin of error in the sampling… let the guy f!@king speak.
What is this about? I’m not about to watch the video. It’s funny to me though how people vehemently refuse to read others reviews/opinions and they are on the web doing the very exact same thing in the hopes that some other poor fellow can read theirs. Imagine if we all had our own opinions and didn’t give a “dick” care for others and we actually stuck to our own beliefs. Man, what DU would be like without those people. Sadly, it’s a world of ignorance
People with unwavering convictions and ideals wanting it from others 
Now, that alone has made my day…well…early morning now.
Since Amazon bought out the IMDb.com, it doesn’t surprise me that some “reviewers” of books and other Amazon products, might be just phony as some of the Commenters who contribute to the IMDb. They’ve been doing that for years now, I suspect. Liking even some of the most horrid movies, because some studio paid them to write a glowing praise review. But they often can’t do just one, or even just a ten. They’ll do dozens and dozens. And be very long winded about it. A good give away that they’re pros. Rarely would anyone else waste their time, devoting paragraphs to so many current films, if it weren’t their job. So they were fairly easy to spot. But then Amazon bought IMDb and started allowing multiple fake IDs for that same applicant. So they can spread their professional praise, under more than one name. I generally just read the negative and mixed reviews. And ignore the positives. The negatives are generally more honest and realistic. And more fun to read too.
I am socked.
Socked, I tell you.
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