Disallow use of ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ and other similar unicode in Store/Item Names
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Honey Puddles
The marketplace has a growing, serious problem with this deceptive listing practice, with stores adding ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ to their store name to imply that an item being shown in a search result is actually rated 5-stars, even when it is not.
The number of stores engaging in this practice is shockingly large, with 'brands I've heard of' already doing it. The practice seems to only be growing.
Other unicode symbols that should probably be disallowed:
⭐ 🌟 ✨ ★ ☆ ✪ ✯ ✭ ✰ ⚝ ✫ ☀ 🌞 �
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Drake1 Nightfire
Unicode should just be disallowed in general on the MP.. It makes it harder to search for a store.. Mind you, its the merchant that's shooting themselves in the foot by using them.
Pazako Karu
Drake1 Nightfire As we don't have the ability to make headers, bold, italic, underline, tabs or any other style things on the marketplace description, abuse of Unicode (which has quirky, but consistent spacing) is rather helpful. Also, Unicode is where all the non-Latin languages are! We certainly can't throw them all under the bus. [I am not defending the abuse of Stars in store/item names, which are clearly designed to manipulate and lie]
misstoriblack Resident
If you are deceived by this, you probably should be really careful when browsing websites in general. Including amazon...
Oil Supply
misstoriblack Resident Irrelevant.
misstoriblack Resident
Oil Supply as this ticket
Diana Blakewell
Yes please. Very deceptive.
ZortyTheExplorer Resident
i report listing in past when i was stupid to try to help
and i got warning from staff too many report
they do not care
yes i admit i got dumb and make purchase before realize fake stars
SL Feedback
Merged in a post from BrianTopp Resident:
Title: remove emojis stars from marketplace
There are stores using emoji stars to make it look like they got 5 star ratings by putting it on their store name. Can we disable star emojis or change them to a different color.
Peter Stindberg
No brainer.