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"I mean, how difficult is it for Yelp to catch this?!?" The mistake you're making is assuming Yelp: * Wants to "fix" this problem. * Isn't actually complicit i
by Solvency 3y ago
"I mean, how difficult is it for Yelp to catch this?!?"
The mistake you're making is assuming Yelp:
* Wants to "fix" this problem.
* Isn't actually complicit in this problem as a means to incentivize small business owners to sign up and pay for Yelp to help "manage their business profile".
- jiveturkey 3y agoAnd the second mistake is (if they did care) thinking this wouldn't just result in an arms race. IMHO we want easy to spot fake reviews. I want flash to come back. It was so easy to block annoyances in that day. Now we have HTML5 popups.
- motoxpro 3y agoI assume you're talking about it being easy for the consumer. There is no way I would know that the same college kid copy pasted a pic from a Flordia Zilliow listing to out on a home renovation review but it's trivial to find for Yelp. So I understand the sentiment, but at least to my untrained eye, I just glance at reviews and take them as real as long as a dog walker is not mentioned at a sushi restaurant, which means they are too hard to spot for me.