I finally found something more confusing than the PE scoring

[smeddley]

...the Amazon reviewer ranking system.

Today I publically spoke out against HK and her 'reviewing'. I was immediately (within an hour) hit with 8 negative votes. All conveniently on the first page of my reviews visible from my profile page. Hmmmm... No, it doesn't look like someone just decided to troll my reviews and ding me.

Still, I don't care about the negative votes, so that's not the part that caught my attention. The interesting thing was... in that hour, my reviewer ranking also changed. Mind you, I received no positive votes, just negative ones.

I went from 50,000 to 37,000.

So getting 'not helpful' votes moved me 13,000 spaces up the chain.

Go figure.

I wonder if I'd move down again if I got more positive votes!

Comments

[icecat.livejournal.com]

Probably just has to do with the fact that your reviews are garnering attention, good or bad.

What's your amazon reviewer name, and HK's as well? I feel like doing some voting! :D

[smeddley.livejournal.com]

I am Smeddley, as always. :)

HK is Harriet Klausner - if you Google it you'll find a wealth of information, plus you can look at the most recent comments on her reviews for some pretty lively discussions!

EDIT: also, reading her 'reviews' is both funny and painful, the way that reading spam e-mail is...