Q: You are considering whether to buy a product. You look at the reviews. Would the following review decrease or increase the chances of you buying the product? Review title: The old grey mare isn't what she used to be. Product review: I was looking forward to using Borland again. I remember when they led the industry with their innovative IDE concepts. Well they haven't changed much since then. Of the three IDE platforms that I have used (Qt, Microsoft's Visual C++.net and Borland C++ Builder and VI) this comes in second to last. Come on Borland get back into the saddle. There are other annoying factors as well. Rebuilding each and every time I choose to run in debug, the depth of the class architecture, not to mention what has already been said. Sorry Borland... I was really hoping to say something quite different.
A: decrease


Q: You are considering whether to buy a product. You look at the reviews. Would the following review decrease or increase the chances of you buying the product? Review title: Worth buying, but... Product review: The stuff on here is a little polished for my taste, most doesn't sound natural (like most pop music), it sounds like it was crafted in a studio. Though there are some great punkers on here like the Gonn track, "Knock Knock", and the Unrelated Segments. Fans of '60s pop music probably won't like it though, neither will die hard garage fanatics like me. But it is good to have, cause much of this stuff isn't available anywhere else. For me, I'll stick to the Back From the Grave series, which rarely leaves my CD player, Nuggets unfortunatley hardley ever goes in my CD player, though sometimes I need to listen to "Sugar and Spice", so it's good to have around.
A: increase


Q: You are considering whether to buy a product. You look at the reviews. Would the following review decrease or increase the chances of you buying the product? Review title: I'm an Agnostic...and I Still Didn't Like This Product review: Many viewers were upset about this movie's "anti-religious" message--a message that doesn't appear until halfway through the movie and which wasn't advertised in any of the trailers. As an agnostic, I wasn't as offended as religious viewers...but it still felt like it was in poor taste to hide the biblical mockery from American audiences.I'm a huge Ricky Gervais fan, and an agnostic to boot...so you would think that this movie was tailor-made for me. Not so. The message of the movie--that Radical Honesty would lead to a world of cynics who do nothing less than put down each other constantly--was a downer. Would it have hurt the writers to put a few nice words into the mouths of the characters? THE INVENTION OF LYING high-concept misfire on the level of Mike Judge's dire IDIOCRACY.
A: decrease


Q: You are considering whether to buy a product. You look at the reviews. Would the following review decrease or increase the chances of you buying the product? Review title: Not the genuine article Product review: After reading "Trinity," I cannot have been the only one who hunted high and low for "Redemption." I see from other reviews that I am not the only one who was, let's say, mildly appalled by what I found. "Redemption" has all the earmarks of a novel written for contractual purposes and I'm frankly surprised Uris put his name to it. In my opinion, it is not the genuine article, not by a long shot, and if you're still chasing around to find a copy by the time you read this, then stop. Go on to something else.
