Yelp extorting small businesses(dailykos.com)

21 pointsby zavulon13 lat temu2 comments

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/04/16/1202103/-round-two-yelp-com-extorting-small-businesses

2 comments

wting13 lat temu

I visited the site in incognito mode, and I see the review: http://i.imgur.com/v9P9cJJ.png

Yelp has publicly stated that they filter reviews[0] since many people try to game the system. I'm not sure how they filter the reviews, but this is probably a good guess: http://qr.ae/TluW1

Disclaimer: I'll be interning at Yelp over the summer.

[0]: http://qr.ae/TluOB

BenSS13 lat temu

Is anyone surprised? This has been going on for YEARS now, but the users think they are getting what they want. It's the business owners that get the short end of the stick.