Thursday, November 29, 2007

Is #11 TaylorX deleting and reposting his reviews to get rid of unwanted comments?

See for yourself, and when you click on the see comments section you get the Amazon can't find this page, which is what happens when a review with comments has been deleted. This topic has just been raised on the discussion boards. Of course, that doesn't appear to be a problem with the review comments that are flattering to him :-)

As a refresher on this, pick any old review of yours and post a comment. Delete the review and repost it. When you look at all your reviews it will still be in the same date, but with the comment gone. However, if you change the option under reviews to see by newest comment first, you'll see that old review still there showing a comment. Click on that you should get that lost page message from Amazon.

11 comments:

Malleus said...

Looks like that to me. He also seems to think that KrossD and 'problem child' is the same person. TaylorX seems to have succumbed to paranoia.

Cathy said...

That's way too much work IMO. Three four times he's deleted and reposted that one review? Methinks you've ruffled his feathers a bit.

Barbara Delaney said...

Just in the past two days he has called one customer a "douche bag" and called another brain dead. His current game is to self-delete his reviews before Amazon can take action against him, then he resubmits his now comment-free reviews.

Yet Amazon continues to let him post but removed KrossD's comments. Talk about a double standard! All of you know KrossD never once used an obscenity, never once engaged in abusive name-calling, all things that are stock in trade to Darth Taylor.

I won't be spending a single dime at Amazon this holiday season, or ever again. I despise the entire company.

Stephanie said...

TaylorX is a loser and I am sure he knows it.

Malleus said...

Good lord, he seems to have wiped an awful lot of his reviews! Wow. That's a chore for sure. :-)

I just can't understand this burning desire to police comments...

Cathy said...

There was a comment or two back and forth between KrossD and Taylor X this afternoon that are now gone.

Really, I would think employing TNGHVM would be much easier than all this crap he's going throug to clean up his reviews. :-)

Malleus said...

I don't think he has a voting machine like TNGHVM. And besides, even Grady has used the delete/repost method in the past.

Cathy said...

Interesting, he had a review for Beowulf that had comments yesterday. Now they are gone, the review is reposted sometime between yesterday afternoon and early this morning and yet it has two helpful votes. How good is that?

Barbara Delaney said...

It never ceases to amaze me the type of comments that Amazon finds acceptable from individuals like Harriet Klausner and Darth Taylor but then how swiftly the ax can fall on members whose comments don't even begin to approach the offensivnes of the "top" reviewers.

Who can ever forget Harriet Klausner's review where she spoke of the "shitting beach"? And how many dozens of reviews did she, (or someone), write using the revolting "big head/little head" phrase?

Yet Amazon actually has the audacity to remove comments from people like KrossD and to inform him that his conversation should be that of "a guest at a dinner party". When was the last time you were at a dinner party and someone called a guest a douche bag or a cunt, like Taylor X has? Or regaled the gathering with their story about a shitting beach?

The staff at the Amazon Guideline Department evidently has a rich and varied social life if they find this type of thing dinner party conversation.

Malleus said...

:D

Well, that'd be assuming that they read these comments. I think it's more like, CLICK! and they're gone.

PS. I just sent a note to all of you, but I wonder how well the email forwarder works. Check if you got it; whoever didn't, let me know.

Cathy said...

Barbara, is there someway to capture these comments for posterity to show to Amazon what he's doing? They do have a double standard though. I have a review where I used the words breast enhancement issues (a big part of the book that was) instead of the tackier term boob job. "Breast" was edited out. Go figure.