Geniune online user sentiment has died out a long time ago. If you're still basing any opinion or decision on what other "people" voted or commented online, you're easy prey for the algorithmic manipulation machine.

in a way, the death of genuine reviews online may be a great way to bring it back to real life at a more realistic scale

This is an along the same lines as the idea that every email should cost a penny. Like if every up vote or down vote cost a penny.

I don’t think it would fix things, except raise the bar for what is shilled and what isn’t.