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I selected "prematurely boost

kamrygoodwin - February 24, 2020

I selected "prematurely boost" because the previous sentence says that the nothing can "undo" the damage. So business owners would have phony reviews added prematurely to offset the eventual negative reviews that can't be undone. Was I overthinking it?

BOOST is certainly a good fit

greenlight-admin - February 25, 2020

BOOST is certainly a good fit, and I completely understand your rationale for PREMATURELY, but PREMATURELY suggests that the phony reviews are completed TOO EARLY (before the usual or proper time), and there's nothing to suggest that the reviews are completed TOO EARLY.
A word like PREEMPTIVELY might be a better fit, since it doesn't connote the idea of being TOO EARLY.

AUGMENT has the same effect as BOOST, and the adverb SURREPTITIOUSLY also works nicely with the fact that the reviewer are ANONYMOUS. This works better than PREMATURELY.

Does that help?

Cheers,
Brent

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