[tezza]

The blogger needs more evidence.

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He should write a script to harvest a subsection of Amazon. Then he should parse the results and see how closely correlated the Vine-to-Bad-Review there is.

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A couple of data points here or there are not very convincing, but if he sampled say 10,000 products he could say:

* How many have reviews from Vine?

* Of those Vine reviews, what is the distribution of votes?

* Of non Vine reviews, what is the distribution?

[jbischke]

I'd love to do this if I was a bit smarter. :)

This is the kind of thing that Amazon could, and should, do. If they become very transparent with Vine then I think this could be a good success. But at least to date Vine feels very opaque and that's not a good thing.