Online Ratings Are Broken | Companies aren’t asking for your feedback. They’re begging you for data.::Companies aren’t asking for your feedback. They’re begging you for data.

  • Steeve@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    This is a pretty dumb hot take if you ask me. Yes, they are asking for your feedback, which is data. Everything is data. Why is “data” a bad word around here?

    • NaN@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      The implication of “leave a review!” is they want info on quality to improve service; the twist is they don’t care about that, just getting information about you for ad targeting.

      • grabyourmotherskeys@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Reviews are good for convincing other customers that you are a real site and the product is what it says it is.

        An ethical company leaves up critical reviews and tries to address the issues their customer faced.

        The opposite is a company that only allows good reviews to be published or outright fakes them.

        I have worked for both kinds of businesses and I can assure you the ethical businesses care very much about bad customer experiences and use the feedback to improve.

    • waz@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Data aside. When asking for feedback, they are asking for my time. My time has value to me. My input has value to them. A request for input from me costs me something I value but benefits them not me.

    • phillaholic@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      We went from “how can I make this person buy my laundry detergent” to “how can we make this person vote for a fascist wannabe dictator”

    • ours@lemmy.film
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      1 year ago

      Feedback is one thing, one online shop has the guts to ask me to do support for them. If customers have questions about a product, they “crowdsource” and send the question to the people who bought the product.