I have used the site a couple of times? Like what you guys are doing here! One thing which I was wondering when reading the reviews - how do I know that the reviews are genuine?
Thanks! Yeah, that's really the most important question. There are a couple of answers.
Longer term, we're hoping that the best / most helpful / most genuine reviews are discovered and promoted by market forces on the platform, including:
  • Upvotes
  • Comments from other users
In the short term, we have our own moderation processes (and will be building more):
  • Automating plagiarism detection
  • Manually checking each review to make sure it meets our review guidelines (and will push this as far as it scales)
There are other technical solutions too that punish / disincentive spam and bad actors. For example the 'Web of Trust' system that Stacker News has implemented here!
In short, I think there's a whole host of things we need to be doing
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