Friday, April 29, 2011

Amazon trolls

I've become a victim of Amazon trolls.

I just became a Vine reviewer about a month ago. Somehow or another enough people marked my reviews as helpful. I was surprised because I have a pretty low ranking: somewhere in the 5000's.

But now, trolls have targeted me. They're visiting all my reviews and marking them as unhelpful, just because they can. And said trolls have several accounts and are marking me as negative several times.

This is ridiculous. There's really no way I can stop them either.

Another thing that has been happening to me lately: people are e-mailing me and asking me to mark their reviews as helpful because they want to "impress publishers" or something. I think this is silly: asking for people to rate your review so you can have a higher ranking. (Which is one of the reasons why I don't link my reviews on here directly to Amazon).

And of course when I started an Amazon discussion about the above paragraph, trolls took over and hijacked it so now it looks like a dumb discussion board post.

Trolls need to stop targeting poor broke college students. the only way poor broke college students get books is if people offer to send them. I will die without books. Please stop hurting my account… and really. I'm not proud or vain, but my reviews are not bad. They are good.

So stop.

Anyone else have this problem?

2 comments:

  1. Oof, I sympathize. The only way I get books is if people send them, too. (I am a poor high school student.) I would hate it if bozos started picking on me just because they could. And, for the record, I like your reviews. :)

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  2. Trolls... *picks up sword* bring em on.

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