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Well the website is kind of useless, but it does suck me in. I love reading crazy reviews. The only thing that would make it better is if they also included Airbnb reviews.

The second review I read was a customer complaining about profanity in a movie and then writing out all the examples. Who has time for that?

I love this. The reviews' word play tops MacBeth in my book.
Shit like this is why Amazon reviews are now behind a login wall for everyone.
I don’t think a login wall can stop scrappers
how did you scrape all the reviews?
- i saw your other comment that talks about using an open source dataset but i had to ask

- how would you actually go about loading reviews if you really wanted to

- what kind of system would you need to work around the captcha and stuff

Amazon doesn't even allow you to use slightly strong (non-profanity) wording in reviews these days. Are these old reviews?
It does taste exactly like formaldehyde and kerosene swirled around with a bit of gas station kimchi that's been warming down the front of a hobo's pants. How do I know? To give this comment validity, I took the liberty of mixing up that exact concoction, then I went to down the train yard and asked a hobo to warm it up for me right on his swampy, fetid hobo taint.

Loved this until I remembered that these reviews are what AI is trained on and influenced by.

But at least he's employing hobos.