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Let me just say that Yelp's classification system is complete crap . Until a user starts actively using Yelp, their reviews get filtered out, which excludes most people who only post a review because they loved a certain business. Sometimes, five star reviews will vanish after months of being up, all because of a change in the algorithm. And the Yelp business team is extremely unresponsive when there is a clearly ill…
Also it discourages any new people from participating. I signed up, posted a few reviews of businesses I'd been going to for years, then noticed they got filtered out and stopped participating. And frankly, I don't have seem to have a lot of tastes in common with the hardcore Yelp users.
I reached this conclusion when the top two restaurants in a big city were a Mexican place and Greek food truck.