Reviews that shouldn't have been flagged

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Reviews that shouldn't have been flagged

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1Akiyama
aug 12, 2007, 6:16 pm

mhgatti's review of The Plot Against America by Philip Roth.

http://www.librarything.com/review/19356527

It seems to me that it must have been flagged by mistake.

2nperrin
aug 12, 2007, 7:57 pm

The only other reason I could imagine is that the review is also cross-posted to that user's blog. I suppose someone might not have realized it's the same person and he's not ripping himself off. But it seems like a bit of a stretch.

Also a bit of a stretch to truly flag by mistake though. It's not a one-click operation after all.

3lilithcat
aug 12, 2007, 10:02 pm

Nothing there to suggest that it's on any blog, and certainly no violation of the TOS that I can see.

4nperrin
aug 12, 2007, 11:18 pm

I should clarify. I googled part of the review to see it (despite appearances) it was lifted from anywhere, and I got a hit. After a little extra research I figured out that the blog the review appears on belongs to the LT user. What I was getting at was that there could be the incredibly tiny chance that someone read the blog, recognized the review, and yet didn't realize they were the same person. As I said, it's a stretch, and I wasn't implying that there was any TOS violation at all.

I just thought it was also a stretch to flag a review completely by accident when it has a confirmation page.

5lilithcat
aug 12, 2007, 11:36 pm

> 4

Oh, I agree! I do hope nobody has so much time on their hands that they're googling all the reviews. Maybe they should read a book instead . . .