[quote=""Misfit""]I know what you're feeling, but I've been watching the Amazon shenanigans in the higher ranking for a couple of years and I think this is a great step in stopping some of that. LOL, whatever they did Harriet is now #400 something. How good is that? Several other highly ranked reviewers have taken quite a tumble, among them DebMac (who with her "ladies in waiting" clicked helpful and not helpful all over the place - and I did look at couple of profiles that I knew were "buds" of DM and they've taken a dive as well). I looked at profiles of some who I know were very active in gaining Amzn friends and voting each other up (some of those gushing comments they gave each other !!!) and there's been some big drops there.
And biggest of all is the former #6 who no matter how obscure the item he reviewed it always garnered 200-300 positive votes within days. They're calculating on the DB's he lost over 100,000 helpful votes and he's dropped in ranking to 20 something and has 55,000 "fan voters".
I do find it interesting that most everyone who is an up and up caring reviewer on Amazon has seen great gains, while those long suspected of monkey business of some sorts have taken a dive in ranking. So there is some good in it -- especially from our own Telynor who barely broke 1,000 a few months ago is now knocking at the top 100!!!
Woohoo! (I need diamondlil to come in here now with some fireworks or something)[/quote]
