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by bomewish 870 days ago
Kinda solved with accounts, and/or subs, and monitoring/fraud detection? Or just turn it off for product related searches but keep it on for information related?
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Have you seen any large site with user reviews? Amazon? Yelp? Any feedback on a page that matters will be gamed, because anything over what you spent to game it is pure profit. This is not a solved issue in any meaningful way.
Paid users only would probably push it in the right direction. It is unfortunate that the internet has moved into everything is advertising as a business model. I get the appeal but cognitively paying so I can keep my attention seems like a way better model.