And I Thought I Was A BlowHard
I was looking at CD's on Amazon today when I saw a review by "A Top 10 Reviewer." Number 8, it turns out.
Do you know how many thousands of reviews you have to write to be the number 1 or number 2 reviewer at Amazon? What do you get if you are number 1?
Do you suppose that number two, Lawrance M. Bernabo, who says that "The basis of a democratic state is reviewing," and has, as of this writing, written 10,664 reviews, is staying up all night writing reviews in hopes of snatching the coveted title away from number one, Harriet Klausner, who started doing freelance reviews after her son was born and who must have completely abandoned her son in order to have time to write 9,601 reviews?
Can anyone possibly own or have used that many items?
And I thought I was lifeless.
Amazon's Top Reviewer List
February 19, 2009 update: Here we are three and a half years later, and Amazon has changed their top reviewer formulas. Now the #1 reviewer has only 500 reviews. Amazon is giving more weight to recent reviews and to helpful reviews. I bet that just really irks Harriet Klausner, now #568 by the new formula, and Lawrence Bernabo, now #14 by the new standard. At least Lawrence beat out that pesky freelancer Harriet Klausner, huh?
There is good news, though. Amazon still reports the standings according to the old formulas as well. and guess who are #1 and #2 still, 3 and a half years on (that's European English for 3 and a half years later). Did you guess Harriet Klausner and Lawrence Bernabo? If you did, you got it right. All this time and thousands upon thousands of reviews later and #1 and #2 have not changed - using the "classic" reviewer standard.
Do you know how many thousands of reviews you have to write to be the number 1 or number 2 reviewer at Amazon? What do you get if you are number 1?
Do you suppose that number two, Lawrance M. Bernabo, who says that "The basis of a democratic state is reviewing," and has, as of this writing, written 10,664 reviews, is staying up all night writing reviews in hopes of snatching the coveted title away from number one, Harriet Klausner, who started doing freelance reviews after her son was born and who must have completely abandoned her son in order to have time to write 9,601 reviews?
Can anyone possibly own or have used that many items?
And I thought I was lifeless.
Amazon's Top Reviewer List
February 19, 2009 update: Here we are three and a half years later, and Amazon has changed their top reviewer formulas. Now the #1 reviewer has only 500 reviews. Amazon is giving more weight to recent reviews and to helpful reviews. I bet that just really irks Harriet Klausner, now #568 by the new formula, and Lawrence Bernabo, now #14 by the new standard. At least Lawrence beat out that pesky freelancer Harriet Klausner, huh?
There is good news, though. Amazon still reports the standings according to the old formulas as well. and guess who are #1 and #2 still, 3 and a half years on (that's European English for 3 and a half years later). Did you guess Harriet Klausner and Lawrence Bernabo? If you did, you got it right. All this time and thousands upon thousands of reviews later and #1 and #2 have not changed - using the "classic" reviewer standard.
posted by BlowHard @ Thursday, August 11, 2005
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