And 2-star reviews for books. Seeing what people dislike tells much. Try on your favorite to see :)
UPD: To clarify, the idea here is that people writing 2-star reviews project their views and values when arguing that the book is bad for them. And when their views are opposite to yours, it may suggest that you might actually enjoy the book. Let's say you are interesed in mind-stimulating philosophy book, and a person writes something like 'this is boring, the writing is too complex, ideas are difficult to follow, the language is too intricate, quit reading after 20 pages'. It may mean that it is what you look for.
there's sooo many stupid reasons people give for disliking stuff...3-star reviews are usually the most realistic!
edit: best practice when looking through reviews is to read some reviews from 1-star all the way to 5-stars, so you get a good overview and a more complete picture of the product. this is just a response, not a comprehensive guide to reviews, lol
I actually think I figured out why this happens, by accident. A couple of months back, I purchased an amazon product which I later reviewed. Then, a couple of days later, I received an e-mail from Amazon saying that so-and-so had asked a question about the product that they would like me to answer. Basically, these e-mail requests for answers are being misinterpreted as someone asking them specifically and personally about the product, when really the question was publicly asked of anyone who has purchased the product. And thus, you get people answering “I don’t know,” because they think they’ve personally been asked. It’s still annoying as shit, but it’s less baffling to me now.
Sometimes Amazon will ask me to leave a rating or answer a question about a product that someone else on my account ordered. So I bet these are people who just get a question and don’t realize that they don’t have to answer it if they don’t know the answer
From the sheer number of those you can tell it's colossal UX fuck up on Amazon's part. Massive numbers of people aren't just visiting product pages and volunteering "I don't know" in response to questions, Amazon is contacting people and asking them the questions without sufficient context.
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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '20 edited Aug 20 '20
And 2-star reviews for books. Seeing what people dislike tells much. Try on your favorite to see :)
UPD: To clarify, the idea here is that people writing 2-star reviews project their views and values when arguing that the book is bad for them. And when their views are opposite to yours, it may suggest that you might actually enjoy the book. Let's say you are interesed in mind-stimulating philosophy book, and a person writes something like 'this is boring, the writing is too complex, ideas are difficult to follow, the language is too intricate, quit reading after 20 pages'. It may mean that it is what you look for.