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Yelp names and shames businesses paying for 5-star reviews (arstechnica.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Yelp has started publicly naming and shaming businesses that pay for reviews. The review site's new index documents businesses offering everything from a crisp $100 bill for leaving the best review to a $400 Home Depot gift card for a five-star review. It also lists every business whose reviews have ever been suspected of suspicious activity, like spamming the site with multiple reviews from a single IP address.

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Do they also notify users that they are the largest score manipulator by far of their data? And that they do so to bully small businesses to pay up or they will ruin them?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Of course not.

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