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I would like to remind people that this is not the first or even second time that this kind of claim has flaired up regarding biased reviews, corrupted reviews,

by wahsd 14y ago

I would like to remind people that this is not the first or even second time that this kind of claim has flaired up regarding biased reviews, corrupted reviews, purchased reviews, and extortionary practices. I would also caveat though that there is a plausible possibility that this is an attempt at mobbing Yelp. I have always felt that reviews are ripe for disruption and a bit of an ethics and authority treatment.

illuminate 14y ago
"I have always felt that reviews are ripe for disruption and a bit of an ethics and authority treatment." I'd be fascinated to see how someone tries to tackle this better. I post reviews there sometime and see people arguing against their algorithm, but their (imperfect) algorithm is working against a social problem, not a technical problem and that's where persons get confused. "Ethics" is a pretty poor word to use when Yelp is working against the equivalent of or direct SEO-style review spammers. It's hard to tell a real person from a plant.