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: Good start to staying safe online Product review: I don't know what happened to my other review, but I have to say this first edition of the book is a good start to staying safe online. However, get the new 2nd edition - it's chock full of new information and 100 more pages of things not covered in this edition.
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: For me, this was a sad disappointment. Product review: I'm sure that Maureen Orth's career will carry on without false high praise from me. I want to give my honest opinion of The Importance of Being Famous, and I consider it to be a waste of my money and time. I purchased Ms. Orth's book from the remainder table at a flea market book stall. Usually, I give more attention to the content promised in my book purchases, but I was taken by the author's name and title. Too late I realized that this was a re-hash of previously published articles, and provided little insight into the phenomena of fame, itself.I felt that The Importance of Being Famous was somehow gossipy and boring at the same time, telling me what had been said many times before. Of course, it is my fault that the book was not what I had hoped for, but it is the author's fault that it was dry as the bones she picked over.I would not recommend this book to a friend.
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: I hate all of you....LOL Product review: I purchased the game based on people's reviews. Man this game Sucks really bad. movement horrible, A.I horrible, action horrible. what has this world come to that people can actually play this garbage.
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: A laserprinted book!!?!?! Product review: These guys may know something about online legibility but I'd suggest they have a thing or two to learn about offline publishing - this book looks like it has been laser printed on a Xerox that is running out of toner AND THEN photocopied twice before being bound and sold as a real book!The diagrams to which the content refers are so low quality that you cannot see what is being refered to - ie you can't read the text! To that end I haven't finished the book as I'm still somewhat annoyed at it - bad user interface design ;-)I don't know if this is New Riders being cheap or 37 Signals being uninformed but I will certainly think twice about buying anything from them again.
