Ciao: Holy Dopplegangers, Batman!  

Yeah, I'm on it. Too bad you need to report each one in a separate message.

I don't think it would be a problem for me if I didn't report it fast, I mean, the reviews are dated, so it's easy to see which one is the original. But still, I'm reporting them asap, not only because of the cheating, but because of the stupidity!


Rich

Just thought I'd point out that it won't go against you if you don't report these cheats - you can't be held accountable for others who cheat - sure Ciao is grateful for abuse reports but don't think it will affect you as a member for not reporting other cheaters - you have your own reviews to write and your own reputation to build as an active and genuine member :)

I think I know who your friend is, did she send PMs titled "A CHEATER!!!!" when this happened? If so, I just found it under a ton of spam and replied to her. Too bad I missed the lynching, because if we're talking about the same lady, she's probably the most respectable user in Ciao.

You know, between reporting abuses, and deleting the spam from my inbox, I think I wont have enough time to write reviews or rate them. This is getting ridiculous.

Rich

yes that would be the same one. And you are so right she is well respected in the Ciao Community. I cant believe that someone would stoop to that level. Well good luck with all that you do.

Hey Octavian. I was checking comments. You see, that movie in particular is an indy film, not many people even know it exists, and then, the animated Beowulf came out, so people would probably ignore the other one if they saw it on the shelves.

I mean, awesome looking animation with naked Angelina Jolie and an all star cast, vs cheap looking movie with pre-300 Gerry Butler. You can guess which one will be the popular one, and I found that unfair, because the non-animated one is far superior. According to me of course.

Now, I was the second person to review that movie, so today, when I checked the comments, I noticed there were five in total, so I thought: "Oh, cool, maybe my review convinced someone to watch it and now they are sharing their experience, lets see if they agreed with me or not"

It seems they did agree, so much in fact, they didn't think my opinion needed any changes.

Rich

I rather laugh than cry, if you know what I mean.

I found out while checking the comments, I noticed one of the movies I reviewed had three new reviews. I went to check them out of curiosity, it's not a very popular movie, so I wanted to see what the other people thought of it.

It seems to be the new scam in Ciao, after I reported those three, I went to check my other reviews. Fortunately, I don't have many, and most of the ones I have, don't have many reviews from other people. But I did find another copy from one of my reviews.

Then, I went to one that actually had quite a few, above 40 or so. To my surprise, about 30 of them were copies. What trully surprised me was, that most of these copies are from new members and they are always the only review they have.

I'm starting to think that these people are not doing it in order to make some quick cash, I think the idea is to spam Ciao with complaints about it. Maybe it's a form of protest because the 25 cents incentive is gone, I don't know. But all the copies I've seen are from the last 7 days or so.

Rich

That's bad! I really think that there should be just penalty for those who do that. Anyway, I still have no time to browse others' reviews with the same product as mine.

Maroseqf, I'm replying to your comment, but this is actually an update on the subject. Unfortunately, you can't reply to your own discussion and you can't update the original post.

I was laughing at first, but this is actually BAD. Any of the Ciao members here, do a search for "The Critic - The complete Series", there's 31 reviews of it. Only three or so are originals, the rest are just copies of two of them.

I didn't take the time to look into each of these users' profiles, but the ones I did, they are all new members, they copied that one review in particular and never came back.

Clearly a spam attack on the site, there is no way people can use the normal means for reporting, especially when other products are having this issue too. I wrote an e-mail to Ciao, but who knows how long it'll be until they read it, IF they read it that is.

We'll have to wait, but this is going to bring issues I'm sure.

That is for sure. Ciao admin has to do something about it.

Hi!Hello! You cannot paste in mylot. I tried it, there's an error when you do that. asap...

Yes, you can copy and paste in myLot once you hit 500 posts

It is useful when I'm starting discussions or making posts and need to re-arrange sentences or when quoting from other sources but some have abused it..