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[–] vanillacadmium@lemmy.world 34 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You’re right. One specifically mentions ‘would rate this 0 if I could’ so in lieu of that option, they selected a…5?

Have they gone through and scraped the text from a bunch of real reviews and are reposting them with 5 star ratings to make them look organic?

[–] Xylinna@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

That honestly sounds to be the likely scenario. If someone saw the review they might shrug it off as an error or mistake.