• baltakatei@sopuli.xyz
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    17 hours ago

    What’s to stop any malicious merchant from pruning unfavorable reviews? I trust moderated gossip channels with no financial stake in review sentiment over curated marketing advertisements masquerading as “customer reviews”.

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      4 hours ago

      Nothing and they do. I once wrote a review that the product caused me issues and it wasn’t safe to use and they didn’t publish it stating that it didn’t meet the website’s guidelines.