there has been something like 20 fake reviews to FXCM in the last couple of weeks. Quite a few from athlonman and Exception and another 1 or 2.
If you take the credibility of this site seriously, then I would suggest you rollback all reviews until June 15, 2009, and lock this broker for a few months to root out these idiots. And issue them warnings about this. Obviously Exception/Cold the idiot is beyond your capability...
Perhaps you should consider preventing anyone from leaving book/broker reviews until they have at least 200 posts, and anyone gets banned if leaving more than one review. And one id should not be able to leave reviews for more than 1-2 brokers. I believe some have reviewed numerous, which obviously
Anytime you see reviews of almost all 0s or all 5s, it is likely to be fake or a newbie with nothing to say.
As I said before, I also suggest you prevent any IP/user ID from adding more than one review (there are many with multiple reviews from the same ID).
Free for all reviews went out with the wikipedia age. They learned you need to prevent anonymous people from promoting themselves or getting into arguments via things like reviews.
Maybe you need to assign moderators to the controversial brokers, like FXCM or InteractiveBrokers or books. You can do this in concert with "no review gets into the book or broker section until first checked with moderators." Better no review than fake or flame war reviews.
http://elitetrader.com/br/index.cfm?action=view&R_FirmID=212&start=16
Until the day you stop allowing people to anonymously go all over this forum spamming, shilling, getting to flame wars like this. Getting 30-50 aliases, etc...
You need to decide whether this is a serious business or a game room.
If you take the credibility of this site seriously, then I would suggest you rollback all reviews until June 15, 2009, and lock this broker for a few months to root out these idiots. And issue them warnings about this. Obviously Exception/Cold the idiot is beyond your capability...
Perhaps you should consider preventing anyone from leaving book/broker reviews until they have at least 200 posts, and anyone gets banned if leaving more than one review. And one id should not be able to leave reviews for more than 1-2 brokers. I believe some have reviewed numerous, which obviously
Anytime you see reviews of almost all 0s or all 5s, it is likely to be fake or a newbie with nothing to say.
As I said before, I also suggest you prevent any IP/user ID from adding more than one review (there are many with multiple reviews from the same ID).
Free for all reviews went out with the wikipedia age. They learned you need to prevent anonymous people from promoting themselves or getting into arguments via things like reviews.
Maybe you need to assign moderators to the controversial brokers, like FXCM or InteractiveBrokers or books. You can do this in concert with "no review gets into the book or broker section until first checked with moderators." Better no review than fake or flame war reviews.
http://elitetrader.com/br/index.cfm?action=view&R_FirmID=212&start=16
Until the day you stop allowing people to anonymously go all over this forum spamming, shilling, getting to flame wars like this. Getting 30-50 aliases, etc...
You need to decide whether this is a serious business or a game room.
