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Amazon is shutting down reviews and reviewers for conservative books
Want To Leave An Amazon Review? Not If You’ve Read My Books! ^ | 09/18/2018 | Jon Del Arroz

Posted on 09/19/2018 8:29:11 AM PDT by tbw2

Amazon's review algorithm has been flagging reviewers who leave a review of books by conservative authors Jon Del Arroz and Vox Day. It then tells them that they're unacceptably biased, removing ALL reviews they've posted and banning them from putting up any new reviews.

This has happened to a number of fans and reviewers of their books.


TOPICS: Books/Literature
KEYWORDS: amazon; books; reviews
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1 posted on 09/19/2018 8:29:11 AM PDT by tbw2
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Want To Leave An Amazon Review? Not If You’ve Read My Books!
http://delarroz.com/2018/09/19/want-to-leave-an-amazon-review-not-if-youve-read-my-books/


2 posted on 09/19/2018 8:29:19 AM PDT by tbw2
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Amazon has done this same thing to a top 500 reviewer who gave a positive review to Joseph Farah’s book, so this is truly systematic oppression of conservative voices.

Note that Amazon is THE top ecommerce seller, so restricting reviews and removing them is a deliberate strategy to throttle sales of conservative content.

Apology aside, Amazon still punishing Farah, top Christian reviewer
1 post conspicuously not reinstated among hundreds pulled for ‘bias’
https://mobile.wnd.com/2018/07/apology-aside-amazon-still-punishing-farah-top-christian-reviewer/

There’s no evidence they’re doing the same to any liberal authors’ books, and they have been seen to remove negative one star reviews of books by major libs like Clinton.


3 posted on 09/19/2018 8:30:55 AM PDT by tbw2
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Dow is up 185, Amazon is down 23. Why the big divergence?


4 posted on 09/19/2018 8:32:53 AM PDT by freedom1st
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If the reviewer is a legitimate buyer of a book or product, then the review is appropriate.


5 posted on 09/19/2018 8:33:29 AM PDT by Reno89519 (No Amnesty! No Catch-and-Release! Just Say No to All Illegal Aliens! Arrest & Deport!y)
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Reviews should be limited to only those who have bought the book in question from Amazon. That is fair..............


6 posted on 09/19/2018 8:36:12 AM PDT by Red Badger (Q..........................Future Proves Past..............WWG1WGA.....................)
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To: freedom1st

Amazon is overvalued by Wall Street institutional investors, and the hedge funds are shorting.


7 posted on 09/19/2018 8:39:23 AM PDT by steve8714 ("My name is Rod Blagojevich and I need cash now!" (all) "Call JB Pritzker, 87DirtyCashNOW!")
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To: Red Badger

Are you familiar with Amazon reviews at all?


8 posted on 09/19/2018 8:41:55 AM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: tbw2

I have reviewed both authors, and have not been shut down.


9 posted on 09/19/2018 8:42:57 AM PDT by redgolum
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To: freedom1st

They’re putting politics first.

They’re removing a number of nonprofits from the Amazon Smile donation program per the SPLC list.

They’re listing a number of conservative top sellers but intentionally hurting their sales by limiting inventory. Oh, great, Joseph Farah has a book up ... and they only stocked a thousand copies or so. Jordan Peterson’s book sells out? You can backorder it, and they take their time shipping it because they don’t want those crazy conservatives reading too much ... oh, and would you like the Kindle version?

They’re systematically purging conservative reviews, and it appears to be by algorithm given that I now know multiple people who bought Jon Del Arroz’s scifi books or the “Alt-Hero” comics and reviewed them and were banned within an hour.

The WND story on the top Christian reviewer who reviewed Farah’s book shows that it is truly systematic oppression - not just Arroz and Day’s works but others, too.

I found out in my case that tech support is sidelining my tickets for the issue. Every time, we promise to fix it within 24 hours. Call back or message three days later. We promise to restore it in 24 hours. The first time they did it, it took 2 weeks of nagging. This time happened within an hour of reviewing the new Alt-Hero comic. But it wasn’t triggered by reviewing kid uniforms, food products, electronic cables. Review that one thing, and boom, it is down again. And back to the generic silence.

What is damning is that I tried a different support path, since the company is still stupid enough to send me emails on “why don’t you review this X that you bought?” Yes, they’re asking me to review stuff though they shut down my reviews. That tech support guy says oh, they put it in this queue, this holding area. No, they’re not working on it.

Reviews are the lifeblood of ecommerce. This is what increases the odds you’ll sell a product, whether it is a high review or a large number of reviews. At the opposite end of the spectrum, a few negative reviews will kill the sale. They are INTENTIONALLY hurting sales of conservative content because they are putting political dogma ahead of profit.


10 posted on 09/19/2018 8:43:00 AM PDT by tbw2
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To: ifinnegan

I have read some.....................


11 posted on 09/19/2018 8:43:04 AM PDT by Red Badger (Q..........................Future Proves Past..............WWG1WGA.....................)
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I know of multiple cases where Amazon removed the reviews and all other reviews the people did when they legitimately bought the book or song.


12 posted on 09/19/2018 8:43:40 AM PDT by tbw2
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To: freedom1st

Another weird one was the flagging of Moira Grey Peatland’s harp music as “explicit” after she published her book “The Last Closet” condemning the homosexual lifestyle. It took months for them to fix that.


13 posted on 09/19/2018 8:44:36 AM PDT by tbw2
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To: Red Badger

The reviews do designate if it was bought via Amazon by the reviewer.


14 posted on 09/19/2018 8:45:39 AM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: tbw2
For those of you who are interested, WalMart online ordering has pretty much the exact same articles for sale as Amazon. If not the exact same articles then reasonable facsimiles.

When I discovered this I immediately stopped ordering from socialist Amazon!

15 posted on 09/19/2018 8:47:21 AM PDT by spel_grammer_an_punct_polise (Note to all foreigners: GET OUT and STAY OUT!)
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I know. But they are not limited, IIRC.............


16 posted on 09/19/2018 8:49:41 AM PDT by Red Badger (Q..........................Future Proves Past..............WWG1WGA.....................)
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To: spel_grammer_an_punct_polise

Thanks for that tip


17 posted on 09/19/2018 8:50:00 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine ("It's always a party when you're eating the seed corn.")
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https://www.barnesandnoble.com/


18 posted on 09/19/2018 8:50:06 AM PDT by Pollard (If you don't understand what I typed, you haven't read the classics.)
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ALL reviews by one person?

That seems a bit tough.....................


19 posted on 09/19/2018 8:51:50 AM PDT by Red Badger (Q..........................Future Proves Past..............WWG1WGA.....................)
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To: Red Badger

Yes on both accounts.


20 posted on 09/19/2018 8:55:19 AM PDT by tbw2
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