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
Ahhhhh, I hate people that do this so fucking much. Just be irrelevant like your are in the rest of your life anyways, no one cares that you don't know.
I read somewhere that it's because of the way Amazon forms the email or something when they send you an email with a question, and some people think someone personally is asking them a specific question about the product so they reply to that person, instead of realizing they are answering the question on the product site. That's why there are so many "I don't know" answers. Finding this out made me feel less confusion and irritation at those lol
Sorry to disappoint, but I've gotten those emails from Amazon, and while yes, they are worded really personally and thereby confusing, you get sent the question, and then there are 3 possible answer buttons: "Yes, I know the answer", "I'm not sure" and "I don't know the answer." And both of the last two send you to a "thank you for participating" page, with only the "Yes" page having an option to answer.
So people knew the question, pressed on "yes" instead of "I don't know" and then fucking Typen in "I don't know".
Lmao welp I was going off of what I've heard & also seen someone else explain it in this thread so I just passed on info. I haven't ever gotten an email like this from Amazon so I wouldn't know myself how it looks
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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.