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Originally Posted by marcop
Here's another article about this from today's NY Times: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/0...ref=technology
I had a friendly argument recently with a friend who works in Silicon Valley over the worth of anonymous reviews. She thought you could pick your way through wildly varying reviews of, say, a restaurant, and come to a fairly accurate conclusion about how good or bad it was. I disagreed as I think anonymous reviews are inherently worthless.
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I agree with you strongly.
Most reviews which are from people you do not know (or have an extensive sense of who they are from reading a lot of what they write) are inherently worthless, not just anon ones.
If you know someone personally or you read their work/reviews regularly and have a sense of their taste, then the reviews are worth reading.