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Wouldn't the distribution of bogus reviews be fairly consistent across competitors?

• soft_dev_person 12y ago
  Until someone starts to take advantage, and fills it with false reviews faster than the system can cope...
• schnable 12y ago
  The place has to have enough reviews for the bad ones to be rendered insignificant. If a restaurant has only 10 reviews and three of them are one-star "they only had one gluten free option" or type of reviews, the rating will be skewed over bullshit reviews.
  • estebank 12y ago
    That is true, but it definitely seems broken that that could be the case. Personally, I always either read all the reviews or disregard them completely when the review count is <10 or 20 on every "start driven" website, precisely because of this. May be these sites shouldn't even be showing the avg when there aren't enough reviews to be meaningful?
• tedunangst 12y ago
  Smaller restaurants don't always have enough reviews to average away the bad ones, especially when people conscript their friends (like getting everybody in your Google+ circle to leave a one star review for a restaurant that didn't let your wear your Glass).