u/sheriffderek wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
I empathize with people, in general,/businesses who need reviews. People are shy or embarrassed by their writing, embarrassed to post/cringe, forgetful, or simply pressed for time. I've worked with clients where they had really happy customers but were embarrassed to ask fo
u/michaelnovati replied · ★ FEATURED
I mean laws and laws and everything in the USA requires interpretation.
But I don't think anyone can possibly say that an institution has integrity if it's paying people to write reviews. And maybe that's why the bootcamp industry is so messed up.
Stanford isn't paying people to write reviews.
If you want to do this a better way you create a prize with Course Report (anonymously) where a random person who submits any review to any school will be chosen for some kind of prize.
This is an incentive that isn't biased to one school and is an effort by the Platform to increase content on it even if one school secretly funded this because they think they will benefit from some of those new reviews.