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As a general user, I love Yelp. But I also have friends who run retail stores, and they have reported feeling violated by the Yelp process, which suddenly has a
by martian 17y ago
As a general user, I love Yelp. But I also have friends who run retail stores, and they have reported feeling violated by the Yelp process, which suddenly has a very large say in the success or failure of the business. There is no "opt-in" option for retail stores, rather, those stores have to pay to "manage" their listing. If Yelp were opt-in rather than opt-out, I suspect they would have never had a lawsuit. (I know this would change a lot of Yelp's site, though, so not sure how feasible it'd be.)
- willwagner 17y agoIs there a way for a business to get themselves delisted from Yelp (either manually or in a robots.txt automated way)?
- qeorge 17y agoI doubt it, and honestly I don't think there should be. Businesses can't be allowed to censor what is said about them at will. Yelp may be a flawed implementation, but the concept is sound.
- mothaiba 17y agoYelp's doing a lot of us a favor by aggregating the conversation. Those conversations are happening elsewhere regardless. Is it all that different from what HN does?