Most reviews are boring, corporate friendly platitudes and a 5-star rating, but that really doesn’t tell you anything about the product. Hell, it may just be a bot regurgitating the products marketing sheet!
But if reviews contained swearing, slander, or other legal minefields you could know it wasn’t written by the company.
“This toaster is great, works well, likes to eat forks. Feed it a fork every morning to reward it for a good job.”
“What a fucking great coffee machine! Be sure to lick any drips off the scalding hot plate, that’s the most tasty part.”
“5-stars, mine came with an official statement from the company saying Hitler did nothing wrong.”
Alas, language doesn’t work that way. Consider: newspapers used to refrain from printing swears literally. They’d write something like “——” or “[expletive]”, or they’d paraphrase. But then politicians got a lot more foul-mouthed, and newspapers had to start printing more swears just to report what the politicians said.
I just review things technically. Like, if I buy a PC or piece of hardware, I like to include in the review if it works in Linux and provide details I wish would have been available in the listing.
e.g. I just bought a USB wifi adapter for a project. I noted that it worked in Linux, what kernel version and architecture, what chipset it has, and its reported capabilities. Here’s a truncated review I wrote (the rest of it is just the rest of the
iw phyoutput.
“5-stars, mine came with an official statement from the company saying Hitler did nothing wrong.”
You’d think they’d at least condemn him for not fighting until the bitter end.
Ah, that’s because the coffee review was op’s previous review, not that one. ;)
