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my issue isn't impact on the guys that don't play, it's impact on the consumer from the guys that do. a crappy restaurant that has 5 star reviews because the ba
by kolosy 17y ago
my issue isn't impact on the guys that don't play, it's impact on the consumer from the guys that do. a crappy restaurant that has 5 star reviews because the bad ones were paid off hurts me financially.
- jrockway 17y agoIf you are letting random people on the Internet hurt you financially, you are doing something else wrong. Take everything you read with a grain of salt.
- kolosy 17y agohurt financially == going to a restaurant/store/{insert random b&m service provider here} that i shouldn't have gone to, and spend more time/money + get worse service/product out of as a result. isn't the whole point of a review system to influence people's decisions?
- jrockway 17y agoIn the end, you hurt yourself financially. What if there was no review system at all?
- kolosy 17y ago... then i would use other, less centralized and organized sources, as i did before yelp existed. what's your point? i'm certainly not saying that yelp is stealing money from me, but trusted (yes, only to a certain extent) information is trusted information. if misleading, there are consequences to the consumer.
- jrockway 17y agoWhat I'm saying is that review sites are misleading even when reviews aren't being paid for. Paying people to write reviews makes the data no worse than it already was, because it was already pretty bad.
- tptacek 17y agoThe thesis of your argument is thus that Yelp has no reason to exist. We differ on the reasons but agree on the conclusion. Let's call it a push.