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Given so much reported behavior over the summer this feature, while well intended, sounds horrible. In several isolated incidents people were making all kinds o
by austincheney 6y ago
Given so much reported behavior over the summer this feature, while well intended, sounds horrible. In several isolated incidents people were making all kinds of noise about racism if people or businesses didn’t vehemently express agreement with certain opinions. That’s not racism. I remember seeing the mayors of Chicago and DC call out some of those specifically.
- geofft 6y agoWell, that's the whole point of this feature - to prevent a store from being flooded with negative reviews while the alert is active.
- curiousllama 6y agoIt also links to the news article(s) in question. It’s a feature that says: “rather than letting mobs review-bomb places, we’re going to temporarily block all reviews and just link to the article because that’s the relevant thing”
- Fellshard 6y agoThe optics backfire, though. Instead of saying, 'This establishment is likely to have manipulated reviews', the appearance to the average user is, 'This establishment has been accused of racist behaviour' - the latter sticks out far more than the former.