No one mentioned this, but companies like plugin alliance, UAD and waves no longer have any reviews, only ratings. One more step to dehumanize internet.

 

PA always used to only publish the good reviews with 4 or 5 stars anyway. They never published any of the bad ones...

Having said that, reviews are such a clusterfriend of gamification, bots, fake reviews and spam that it's a nightmare to admin and often just looks really bad on your product pages, so it's no surprise more and more companies are removing the feature... Reviews haven't been "human" on the internet for years now (depending on where you go, of course).

 

nobody believes them anyway. It turns out that "I've never used this before, but I can't wait!", and "I heard I need this compressor!" comments don't actually sell anything. Who knew?

 

UAD and Waves have buyer reviews on every product page, but you might need to adjust your cookies permissions to see them. I don't remember them on PA but then I'd ignore all this as marketing bs and like dkny said they moderate the most negative responses.

For any purchase in life it's probably best to seek reviews from third party sources. That's easy to do with plugins, as you can demo most yourself, watch a youtube vid, read a review from somewhere like SOS, or ask on a forum like this one.

I understand the sentiment, but maybe loosen the foil on that hat, it might be restricting blood flow.

 

I wouldn't even attempt to hazard a guess on the success of reviews.
The success of ratings I would not either.
Does anyone know with 100% success that products that have 5 stars haven't been doctored too?

Many people I know trust the opinions of co-workers in their industry. Even then, it is like the the phrase of the proof is in the pudding (testing yourself) that many rely on. There is so much hype on so many things, nobody can blame any person for not believing a lot of what they see, hear or read anymore.