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Yelp Users Bemoan Disappearing Recommendations, Adding to Company Troubles

• stevespang 8y ago
  It was published months ago how Yelp sales people would call up businesses to sell minimum $500 ad packages (that many prior businesses stated got zero revenue from), when they refused - - - evil Yelp salespeople under aliases went online and slammed their accounts with bad reviews. One dentist and other have sued Yelp, but courts ruled against online businesses like Yelp have special protection. In Russia, this problem would have been solved very expediently without expensive lawyers, Yelp staff would be 6 ft under.
• gscott 8y ago
  Yelp puts about 75% of reviews into not recommended, the problem with that is when people find the reviews are not showing they have no motivation to post more reviews.
  • xfitm3 8y ago
    Do you have thoughts on why they put 75% of reviews into not recommended?
    • gscott 8y ago
      I started a new company and had two friends review it on Yelp. I also had 3 customers review it. Yelp marked the customers reviews as not recommended but kept the fake reviews from my friends. Whatever Yelps algorithm is... it is wrong in my case 100% of the time.