[dmbche]

I keep getting this eerie feeling when seeing product reviews and the rest of things you list here - I would never in a million year consider writing a paragraph long glowing review of my car jack on amazon, and yet there are millions of such interactions all over the web.

[adriand]

I was startled to recently discover that a local gastroenterologist has numerous excellent reviews on Google Maps by people talking about what a lovely colonoscopy they had, some of whom related the specific medical condition that brought them there. Never in a million years would I consider doing this either. It turns out people are pretty weird.

[oefnak]

> I was startled to recently discover that a local gastroenterologist has numerous excellent reviews on Google Maps by people talking about what a lovely colonoscopy they had, some of whom related the specific medical condition that brought them there. Never in a million years would I consider doing this either. It turns out people are pretty weird.

I mean, you kinda are talking about visiting a colonoscopist on hacker news, so there's that.

[ShroudedNight]

For all we know, they may well have had an upper endoscopy.

[callalex]

Medicine is run by big business in the USA, I wouldn’t trust those reviews at all.