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website called "KJA Special Forces" (www.kjasf.com). KJA fans who join
are expressly asked, among other activities, to "post reviews on
Amazon.com and other sites", in return for which they are promised
various "exclusive member benefits" and "rewards".
I can't see how this can be viewed as anything other than a deliberate
attempt to recruit shills to post overly favorable "reviews" of KJA's
books and unfairly manipulate the results of the customer review
system on Amazon. With the deletion of many unfavorable, honest
reviews of the newer Dune books, while single-or-few-line, five-star
"reviews" were left stand, many have suspected shill activity. Now we
have apparent proof of it.
One member of the KJASF site has already gone on a "review rampage" on
Amazon, posting 54 "reviews" (many consisting of just a few lines) of
KJA books over a three-day period at the end of April.
If you value the integrity of the customer review system at all,
please help watch for suspicious activity in the reviews.
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That's no surprise. As with the other user-posted "informational" website
like Wikipedia and IMDB.com, the reviews on Amazon.com are not worth the
paper they're written on.