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Businesses making profit off entities with positive reviews has been the norm: e-commerce etc. Business making profit off entities with negative reviews (Glass

• rhizome 10y ago
  The business model is so simple, I doubt the people who start those companies are interested in complication.
• bduerst 10y ago
  Soliciting someone to pay for an account to remove negative public reviews comes close to blackmail, correct?
  • hueving 10y ago
    Close, but not quite. Blackmail would be if they held the negative reviews and then released them if they refused to pay. This is more like a sleezy PR person that offers to help bury a story that they themselves are promoting.
    • rplst8 10y ago
      It's sort of like extortion.
• Grishnakh 10y ago
  How is GlassDoor a protection racket? Are there any genuine complaints about them screwing over businesses? I once backed out of a job interview because of a slew of truly horrible reviews on Glassdoor. A bunch of current and former employees described a horrible work environment where the HR director, an "iron lady", seemed to run the place, with HR people in the parking lot logging what time employees came in, cameras in front of the bathrooms to see how long people were taking in there, etc. One bad review I'll generally ignore but this place was filled with a bunch of them; I'd never seen anything like it (and never have since).