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Re: Glassdoor updated my profile to add my real name and location

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Post by paxys »

djbusby wrote: post #5
fredley wrote: post #3

Aren't Glassdoor's reviews pretty much a scam anyway? Last I heard companies can pay $$ to gain moderation control over their own profile to delete/downrank bad reviews.

Remember when Yelp did that? And yet, somehow not dead.

Yelp isn't dead but no one I know uses it anymore, specifically due to all the issues with reviews.

Re: Glassdoor updated my profile to add my real name and location

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Post by MattGaiser »

djbusby wrote: post #5
fredley wrote: post #3

Aren't Glassdoor's reviews pretty much a scam anyway? Last I heard companies can pay $$ to gain moderation control over their own profile to delete/downrank bad reviews.

Remember when Yelp did that? And yet, somehow not dead.

Yelp has no real alternative for vetting unfamiliar restaurants, at least not one which doesn’t have similar conflicts.

Re: Glassdoor updated my profile to add my real name and location

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Post by toomuchtodo »

fredley wrote: post #3

Aren't Glassdoor's reviews pretty much a scam anyway? Last I heard companies can pay $$ to gain moderation control over their own profile to delete/downrank bad reviews.

How is this not fraud?

https://help.glassdoor.com/s/article/I-m-an-employer-What-ca...

> You can't pay us to take down reviews and we apply the same content moderation rules to our clients that we use for everyone else.

https://reportfraud.ftc.gov/

https://www.naag.org/find-my-ag/

Re: Glassdoor updated my profile to add my real name and location

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Post by shsachdev »

That’s super slimy of them — a while back I had spent some time investigating fake reviews on their platform [1] and also found that their moderation team has no strict processes in place to deal with bad actors.

[1]: https://www.careerfair.io/company-reviews

Re: Glassdoor updated my profile to add my real name and location

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Post by thrtythreeforty »

All this "my final determination" and "your other surprise account" nonsense could be rectified pretty quickly with a GDPR banhammer. I am increasingly of the opinion that personal info of any kind should be legally radioactive, and very high-risk for companies to hold onto or collect.

Re: Glassdoor updated my profile to add my real name and location

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Post by begueradj »

fredley wrote: post #3

Aren't Glassdoor's reviews pretty much a scam anyway? Last I heard companies can pay $$ to gain moderation control over their own profile to delete/downrank bad reviews.

Many companies pay agencies to post fake positive reviews about them. This is especially common among companies who publish fake job vacancies.

Re: Glassdoor updated my profile to add my real name and location

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Post by digging »

Well, I've understood Glassdoor to be useless for years due to supposedly allowing companies to control the existence of negative reviews, and I've never had an account. However, this is pretty disturbing and deserves to be more widely known if Glassdoor is actually now hostile to employees who might review former employers.

Re: Glassdoor updated my profile to add my real name and location

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Post by aledalgrande »

MattGaiser wrote: post #12
djbusby wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Remember when Yelp did that? And yet, somehow not dead.

Yelp has no real alternative for vetting unfamiliar restaurants, at least not one which doesn’t have similar conflicts.

If you're in UK look at Harden's http://www.hardens.com/

Re: Glassdoor updated my profile to add my real name and location

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Post by reaperman »

begueradj wrote: post #16
fredley wrote: post #3

Aren't Glassdoor's reviews pretty much a scam anyway? Last I heard companies can pay $$ to gain moderation control over their own profile to delete/downrank bad reviews.

Many companies pay agencies to post fake positive reviews about them. This is especially common among companies who publish fake job vacancies.

I feel like this is technically some kind of FTC violation, even if it’s not broadly enforced.
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