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RE: What is BWOMM? A Trip and Restaurant Advisor based on STEEM

in #introduceyourself • 7 years ago

Greetings bwomm-team,

I really am wondering, if any bad reviews might be as helpful as good reviews and hence get as many up-votes as a good review would have - in this I doubt. (Who would want to test something that was judged bad to confirm the review?) Also I feel like restaurants and hotels that are reviewed poorly/badly might just end their cooperation with you or your token. So you yourself would have a much higher interest in good reviews. Finally I feel like the community status (BWST) is similar to "followers" on other sites like (e. g.) instagram. Companies (here: hotels and restaurants) would pay good money to approach these "influencers" with a high status. This would undermine your idea of democracy.
If you involve money or an other value to reviews, the majority will do what is best to get the highest profit. This of course is rational, but seldom objective and therefore dishonest. It seems like there might be a need for some kind of protection mechanisms or review-evaluators.

Don't just become a conventional "major review website" yourself - you can pull it off. Good luck.

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     7 years ago 

    Thanks your good contribution and the nice thoughts behind!

    1. Tastes are different - one is going to judge a restaurant good, the other may not. It is the avarage that matters. As well as the quality of the reviews.
    2. We dont have any cooperation with any restaurants and hotels. We are a platform on which people are reviewing restaurants and hotels. The only connection between BWOMM and the vendors is if they accept our BWD voucher or not.
    3. We are not interested in positive or negative reviews. BWOMM is a neutral platform.
    4. Your BWST critic is very good. But, finiding and paying an high BWST holder will be an expensive and time-consuming endeavor for companies. However, if the opinion spammer is successful in finding several users with a high BWST to upvote its fake review, other non-agreeing users within BWOMM.io still have the chance to comment and down vote the fake review. This makes BWOMM’s reviews and rankings an interactive and democratic information source for its community.
    5. The protection mechanisms are going to be described in our WP coming soon on https://bwomm.io/.
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