That Gary Weiss - is he a bit obsessive?
From thesanitycheck.com
Someone pointed out to me that Amazon has a whole bunch of extremely negative reviews posted about this site, all of which declare the information to be loony, and brand the bloggers as crazies, and make the false and misleading statement that the site touts penny stocks. None of which is true.
What is interesting, however, is that they all appear to have been written by the same one or two people - they are eerily similar, and have the same syntax, verbiage, etc.
Why not take a moment out to write a legitimate review to offset some of this stupidity? Someone obviously is very worried that this site is getting a lot of visibility, and has invested some time and effort to denigrate it - which of course has had zero impact on the traffic, which is solidly in the thousands of discreet visitors per day.
Speaking of multi-posting sociopaths, an anonymous posting group has sent me this spreadsheet, which shows the eerily similar reviewers who have given 'lilGW gushing 5-star reviews, and slammed many of the same books. The patterns are fascinating, including the positive reviews of Jim Cramer's book.
Draw your own conclusions, but it sure seems to me that the same obsessive/compulsive freak has been dolling out positive reviews to Gary Weiss under different aliases - sort of the same sort of deal we are experiencing in the negative reviews.
What are the odds that the same pattern shows up with 'lilGW and with negative reviews for this site? What are possible explanations for so many five star reviewers having read, and felt the same way, about the same books, around the same dates? What a small world it must be. Either that, or someone is trying to game the Amazon reviews, and figures nobody will ever cull all the data to look for patterns.
Almost like someone has a financial stake in seeing 'lilGW's screeds sell, and this site get slammed.
In the words of those who assembled the data:
"Note that those who gave Gary 5 star reviews consistently gave other authors (the same ones) one star reviews.
Then, pay attention to the dates the reviews were made. They come in spurts, always focusing on "pumping" Gary's work or "bashing" another author's.
What's more, many of the bashed authors have unique relationships with Gary. One sued him for libel. Another butted heads with him at Business Week. Google reveals tons here.
These patterns are all VERY improbable in a random system."
Golly. That sure seems confusing. Who would write negatively about authors whom 'lilGW dislikes, as well as this site, which 'lilGW either dislikes or is compensated to denigrate - and write glowing 5-star pieces on Gary?
Who could that be, do you think?
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