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"Unfortunately, most restaurant rating services (like Yelp) aren't too accurate these days." The scores are, but in aggregate, I have a decent experience with
by illuminate 14y ago
"Unfortunately, most restaurant rating services (like Yelp) aren't too accurate these days."
The scores are, but in aggregate, I have a decent experience with Yelp reviews. As with any user-generate content, there are plenty of opinionated idiots, but I can generally quickly skim them to find out if they're an idiot or not and discount their negative/positive ratings.
- w1ntermute 14y agoThe problem is that in large swathes of the country (outside of the largest cities), there aren't enough reviews to get an "aggregate" opinion. So it's easy for outliers to sway the overall rating for any given restaurant.
- illuminate 14y agoWell, in those cases I usually just read the text of the review and see whether it's from someone who would give 5-stars to any Applebees, or whether the person is slightly more aware of what decent food should taste like. It's imperfect, but the results on Yelp are slightly more curated than what's come before. I like their system better than their user generated review competitors, at least. The users seem somewhat more literate.