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: Makes For A Nice Doorstop Product review: Urghh, I'll never forget the summer I wasted trying to get through this book. Can you say, uh, boring? [Insert worthless footnote here].I think I got to page 700 or so before I stopped caring about the life of adolescent tennis pros, football punters, garbage collection, and all sorts of non-sequiters.Clearly the most over-rated piece of literary diarrhea ever written. It is almost like Wallace wrote a computer program to generate massive paragraphs filled with random sentences that individually made sense, but collectively were incoherent. And to mock the reader, he filled it with worthless footnotes that pretend to enlighten the victim of his prose, but only served to lengthen the torture he inflicted on the reader.I will never get those weeks that I spent reading this trash back...I was in the prime of life, and to waste it reading such garbage...arghhh!
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: Great Player, Even greater with third party Software Product review: I have had this player now for almost three weeks and it works perfectly for me. My only problem is the software on the computer, what ever happened to drag and drop capabilities. Though there are several third party alternatives.Other than that I am extremely happy with my Rio. It never skips and with the USB it has an extremely fast transfer rate. It only takes me about 2 minutes to copy over all my songs that I want to listen to.I would highly recommend this product to any one. I have had no problems with it to this point.
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: A great listen Product review: I bought the CD because of the Collective Soul song "Better Now" but the entire soundtrack is great. It's a great CD. And you should check out the movie as well. It's pretty funny.
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: What a mess! Product review: This movie is the reason we have video rental stores!! Had I believed most of the comments about this movie and purchased it I would have been very dissapointed! The purpose of this movie is to make the viewer laugh at the stupid situations that the director puts the cast in. I'm surprised that funding for this film would even be made available for such a grade school written script, it's just awful! The young cast however, is exceptional with the exception of all the adult roles.
