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Originally Posted by PatNY
Yelp has been restricting a lot of reviews for years. I've only left 2 reviews there and one of them was put in the restricted lot where they are still viewable but you have to click buttons to see them. And I had zero relationship to the business I reviewed other than I was extremely satisfied with the level of service I got from them.
I was irritated Yelp did this and felt their formula for weeding out bogus reviews was rather aggressive, but on the other hand I understood this was done solely to protect consumers and the integrity of their review system. Hence, I was on board. They erred on the side of consumers.
This is what Amazon is doing too. There is no perfect formula and some honest reviews are going to be caught up in the efforts to weed out the dishonest ones. In the end, it protects consumers so I'm glad they're doing this.
--Pat
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I completely disagree because I know of authors who actively get/put up bogus reviews. I checked. They haven't been caught so far. So the consumer is still unprotected. I've seen discussions for how to get around any of the algorithms too--so it isn't going to change the quality of reviews.
Yelp keeps asking me to do reviews. I've done a few here and there for restaurants or hotels when I was particularly happy with them. But I can never remember my password and so I stopped doing them there too. I've just about given up doing reviews anywhere even though I know they are valuable. Too many hoops, too much spying, and the algorithms for "suspect" don't seem to work at all.
I do agree there is a problem, but they ain't on the way to solving it.