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First and only Yelp review I ever left was three stars for an Indian restaurant in 2011. It was quickly hidden because "it didn't pass the bot filter" or something. I've never used it since as a reviewer or to find places. It lost all credibility on my first interaction with it.
Which is the flip side of aggressive removal of possible fake reviews people are clamoring for.
I hate to be dismissive, but this is kind of a "Water Is Wet" article. Does anyone really think online reviews are anything but totally gamed, bought, and paid for? It's kind of a Universal Law Of Spam: Any place on the Internet where users can add content and where content might be profitable to someone, will eventually end up full of spam and paid-for content.
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The Apple Maps integration seems to be most of what's propping them up these days. It's especially infuriating because you can only see about 2 reviews before you're prompted to download the Yelp app for "full access". I thought Apple was supposed to be working on their own review system or switching to a different service, but I haven't seen anything come of that.
Why would you use Apple maps though? I havent used since I missed a turn. Why not use google maps?
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I have seen this same claim so many times over the years and not once I have seen direct evidence of it, just hearsay. "My friend", "My wife's cousin", etc. How hard would it be to show before/after screenshots, timestamps of Yelp sales calls, etc.
It's also really hard to tell if Yelp is doing it. I would absolutely believe there are third party scammers posing as Yelp
https://www.vice.com/en/article/434gqw/i-made-my-shed-the-to...
It is such an easy thing to solve with a blockchain. We do not need a 3rd part like Yelp. Just a chain with 2 actors, restaurants and reviewers.