Comments on: Why you will never trust Yelp ever again

By: irina

irina — Sun, 16 May 2010 14:24:18 +0000

You can never believe anything you see in yelp.com. Yelp had delete all positive revies,and only kept bad. Negative reviews contained false information and personal attaks on business owners after declining to advertise.The reviews are manipulated to business owners to buy advertising.

By: Carl L.

Carl L. — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 04:09:22 +0000

When I first started with Yelp, it immediately became apparent that they were just a shill for specific establishments; reasons unknown.

BUT, they not only CENSOR the bad reviews, they also CENSOR good reviews, if the establishment happens to be a competitor of a more favorable CLIENT.

I tested my theory under numerous guises and various e-mail addresses, only to arrive at the same conclusion.

ABANDON YELP if you are looking for a true critique. There is something there that I am yet unable to define but, trust me, it is not above board.

You are being steered toward establishments that Yelp would like you to patronize, regardless of quality.

By: yelptruther

yelptruther — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 05:41:36 +0000

Yelp is good for yelps owner and its employees but is a nightmare for small business.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9Mtg04GFrc&feature=channel

By: David

David — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 04:55:49 +0000

My own experience was that they removed my review, but that it shows up when I logon. I think at least one other person above had a similar experience. My review as entirely factual and first-hand. Can’t understand this!!

By: Uncle Fishbits » Blog Archive » Yelp vomit. I am not organizing this, nor am I reading through it. It is a mash of thoughts on user generated content sites.

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:23:24 +0000

[...] The forest is an amalgamation of healthy trees, unhealthy trees, neutral ones, etc…. and that forest ends up being really big. I used to waste all my time with individual reviews and the algorithmic problems, etc [...]

By: Nate BW

Nate BW — Thu, 14 May 2009 15:55:00 +0000

Yes, indeed, I have slowly watched my reviews – all legit by my patients – slowly disappear. Frustrating to say the least.

By: Christine S.

Christine S. — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 00:25:47 +0000

I deleted my 175 reviews and profile last month. I refuse to let yelp use my reviews to blackmail small businesses into being sponsors. Yes, reviews disappear off the biz pages all the time. If you click on the review from your profile, it looks like it’s there but if you search the business and then go into it that way, the review is gone. This happens far more often with a negative review of a sponsored business or a positive review of a business they telemarketed to death. This website sucks because of these policies. They have completely undermined their own usefulness. They ought to change their tag line to: Disappearing Reviews, Shallow People, Tough Telemarketers. Fuck yelp.

By: Pete K.

Pete K. — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 17:41:58 +0000

Great Research. Thanks for this Info. Yelp should definitely issue a press release after this and clear this confusion and their intent.

By: Michael Hraba

Michael Hraba — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 16:20:43 +0000

It is my assessment that “elites” don’t care about content in any way. At least, a lot of them. They used to have moderators, that could be interesting. They could crowd source this and fix everything. Integrity of the site is important if I am going to recommend my businesses to advert with them, etc. It’s just that I now look at a listing and don’t trust it very much. Overall I am sure it is fine, but it is such a far cry from what they suggested it was.

By: JO

JO — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 14:58:22 +0000

it’s a difficult issue. yelp might be too big to manage. maybe they are too busy with marketing. I think the solution is to let reviews be removed from tipoffs by elites.
Integrity is the most important thing to me.