How much are your stars worth?

The review system for online shopping is broken.

John I. Carney
4 min readMay 15, 2023

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This year, two of my siblings gave me Amazon credit for my birthday. After deliberating for several days, I decided to spend the credit — plus a little of my own money — on a new tablet.

I’d been getting frustrated by my existing Amazon Fire tablet and had wanted to go back to something with access to the…

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John I. Carney

Author of “Dislike: Faith and Dialogue in the Age of Social Media,” available at http://www.lakeneuron.com/dislike