Well, just found out something a little disconcerting—Amazon will screen reviews based on something as innocuous as a social media link (ex. friends on FB), so in order for reviews to be posted, it’s best to have a different name on your amazon account than one you use for sosh meeds.
But in the end it doesn’t matter, right? The thing that matters is you keep creating, throwing that energy out there, and it’ll come back in one form or another. If you’re a writer, I wish you inspired drafting and insightful editing! 🙂 (Hope this doesn’t flood my stuff with a bunch of one-star haters who figure out how to review, haha!)
Dirty Sci-Fi Buddha 
Oh, that’s interesting and a bit unsettling. You are right, just keep writing and doing your thing on social media. :o)
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Wow, that’s frustrating. I mean, I see where they’re coming from. But asking your friends to leave a review of your book hardly seems like cheating. Especially since larger publishers with more resources will still find ways to get their spammed reviews posted, (and let’s not pretend that doesn’t happen,) once again sticking it to the little guy.
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I agree. Totally agree. They’ve sued fiverr people for selling 5-star reviews, but as you say, I’m sure larger corporations have more sophisticated methods of getting reviews. Attacking fiverr merchants hurts the little guy.
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If they start screening reviews based on whether or not a reader is on your friends list, they’re going to wipe out half the reviews posted at Amazon. There’s another word for a FB friend: fan. I know authors who have thousands of FB friends (fans). Screening reviews on that basis makes zero sense. They’ll wipe out half the reviews posted.
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Yeah a little weird, but Amazon has tended to be of the extreme mindset
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