Amazon will accept other 1-star reviews, just not his. This is a very frustrating tale, and it shows just how amazingly, totally, completely two-faced Amazon can be if it (apparently) thinks a review might damage a book’s sales. It’s a study in giving someone the brush-off while still ‘officially’ holding out hope.
For maximum effect, read the linked pages in order.
I was listening to NPR the other night and may not have caught the whole conversation, but they were saying that when you search for the term “abortion” on Amazon, the site used to ask in essence, “Do you mean adoption?” People complained about that and Amazon claimed that because the words were so close in spelling that they thought it would be helpful. But of course, when you would search for “adoption” it did NOT ask “Do you mean abortion?” I believe they said it was changed now. I haven’t checked for myself. I don’t think I will use Amazon as much in the future though.
This is almost certainly a result of the automated mechanism Amazon uses. Do a google search for “jew” and you get “Jew Watch.” This is a result of the algorithms that google uses to determine what a search is actually trying to find. Amazon’s search has similar algorithms that somehow determined that “abortion” was a misspelling. I HIGHLY doubt that there was any political motivation.
Just went and looked and found about 7 1-star reviews, including 2 that are titled “non-science” and appear to be copied from the OP’s link. One has a comment about Amazon’s habit of removing bad reviews.
Same thing happened with Star Jones’s book, IIRC. The day it came out, and everyone read it, the negative reviews were just piling up and up…until they suddenly disappeared.
Anybody else have a problem with people that review items they haven’t read/watched/listened to? (Yes, I’m sure in this case he did extraneous research on to the author’s website, but still, read it then tear it apart).
I wonder if fans (possibly the Author) were reporting his reviews as bad reviews since the reviewer clearly says he hadn’t read the whole book.
There does seem to be a plethora of new 1 star reviews. If that is dopers, please stop it (at least right now) as it looks very suspicious to anyone who looks at the reviews from Amazon if there is a compaint.