[bellyfullofbac]

Paid reviews seem easy enough to spot, they hype up the product/service too much, I'd read a VPN review, notice those canned phrases, and sigh because in my view the review site just scammed me of my time...

Maybe a bot that collects reviews and detect similar sentences can also rate those bullshit "review sites"..

[ohashi]

For hosting, it's pretty clear based on who they put at the top and top few rankings. Is it one of the cheap, high affiliate hosts? Fake. Problem is, people unfamiliar with the space might not be aware of it. For people who know, web hosting reviews are generally crap.

As far as rating sentences of bullshit review sites. How do you think that would work and how would you train such a system? I'm worried about the non-paid training, where might one get enough sample data to show 'normal' vs 'paid'?

[lazide]

When a lot of the reviews use literally the same words or phrases cut-n-paste or templates in, it’s pretty transparently a scam.

[ohashi]

Yeah, I pick that up as spam detection looking for identical type of messages/content.