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A harassment campaign on Goodreads

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270 points ilamont | 1 comments | 06 Jan 20 20:20 UTC | HN request time: 0.207s | source
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jshevek ◴[06 Jan 20 21:17 UTC] No.21973409[source]▶
Some people are trying to battle against negative fake reviews by posting positive fake reviews. It's not clear to me that they are as morally superior as they evidently believe.

Edit: The solution is to fix the voting system, not to abuse it further because you believe you are virtuous.

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matsemann ◴[06 Jan 20 21:25 UTC] No.21973504[source]▶
I hope you see the difference between fake praise and harrassment.

"Both sides are wrong" doesn't mean they are equally bad.

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deith ◴[06 Jan 20 21:57 UTC] No.21973847[source]▶
It's not fake praise vs harassment, it's fake praise vs fake criticism.

In any case this will make for an excellent marketing campaign. I don't even know what the book is about (I assume something politically charged because of this campaign) but now I know the book!

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1. jshevek ◴[06 Jan 20 22:04 UTC] No.21973949[source]▶
I do not believe that the author has faked their own fake criticism in this case, but this marketing tactic has been used successfully before by others.