{"id":13,"date":"2004-02-15T20:34:00","date_gmt":"2004-02-16T03:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gravity7.com\/blog\/general\/2004\/02\/13.html"},"modified":"2004-02-15T20:34:00","modified_gmt":"2004-02-16T03:34:00","slug":"amazon-apparently-revealed-names-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gravity7.com\/blog\/general\/2004\/02\/amazon-apparently-revealed-names-of.html","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>amazon apparently revealed names of anonymous reviewers last week on its Canadian site. And took a week to provide a fix. A lot of reviewers, as it turned out, were reviewing their own books. Or worse, trashing competing authors. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d like to think that the folks at Amazon did this on purpose. Just as a way of reminding reviewers that they shouldnt count on technology to be 100% infallible, and that if they are going to game the system they do so at their own risk&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps services like these should periodically permit a breakdown in order to instill accountability among users.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>amazon apparently revealed names of anonymous reviewers last week on its Canadian site. And took a week to provide a fix. A lot of reviewers, as it turned out, were reviewing their own books. Or worse, trashing competing authors. I&#8217;d like to think that the folks at Amazon did this on purpose. Just as a way of reminding reviewers that they shouldnt count on technology to be 100% infallible, and that if they are going to game the system they do so at their own risk&#8230; Perhaps services like these should periodically permit a breakdown in order to instill accountability among users.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gravity7.com\/blog\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gravity7.com\/blog\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gravity7.com\/blog\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gravity7.com\/blog\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gravity7.com\/blog\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/gravity7.com\/blog\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gravity7.com\/blog\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gravity7.com\/blog\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gravity7.com\/blog\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}