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[–] VolcanoWonderpants 13 points 8 months ago (12 children)

So I'm guessing a competing company bought a bunch of bad reviews at the same time. But how did the second person put it in a graph? Is he really that passionate about protecting Yankee Candle from slander, or are those review reliability things more advanced than I thought...?

[–] snapoff@sh.itjust.works 76 points 8 months ago (5 children)

This was during the omicron surge I believe

[–] VolcanoWonderpants 23 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Ah, I didn't look at the dates very closely, thanks for clarifying. I didn't lose my smell after having covid, but I know others did, and I'd honestly forgotten about that symptom until you mentioned it. (Edit: it was actually @SmoochyPit@beehaw.org who mentioned that. Sorry. It's been a long day ...

[–] snapoff@sh.itjust.works 3 points 8 months ago

No worries man, I had just seen it before and recognized the context. I didn’t lose my sense of smell when I had covid either, but everything tasted awful. And idk if it’s related but now I get whiffs of random smells that are unlikely to be present and other people say they don’t smell, like gravel and metal. So weird.

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