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At the end of the section you referenced, regarding endorsements: > So I contact friends and acquaintances, and put them to work. I think that's all there is
by dgritsko 9y ago
At the end of the section you referenced, regarding endorsements:
> So I contact friends and acquaintances, and put them to work.
I think that's all there is to it.
- grahamel 9y ago> Reviews written by real people on different computers, so the anti-scammer technology TripAdvisor utilises doesn't pick up on my hoax. It gets a little lost in the article but this and the above quote is all they did for the reviews
- chatmasta 9y agoSo he has thousands of friends and acquaintances? Or did each leave multiple reviews?
- grahamel 9y agoThe screengrab[1] in the article show's only 96 reviews when the restaurant got to #1 [1] https://video-images.vice.com/_uncategorized/1512580232417-no1edit.png?resize=916:* https://video-images.vice.com/_uncategorized/1512580232417-n... (edited to update the image and review count)
- speps 9y ago> UPDATE 6/12/17, 17:12: After an eagle-eyed reader spotted that each mocked-up TripAdvisor screen shot contained the same number of reviews, we have edited the images so that the number of reviews match those in the actual screen shots and replaced two of the images.