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Originally Posted by backwardsrain  The yelp filter absolutely doesn't work. Every single review I wrote got filtered so I stopped writing reviews! I know several businesses where all the reviews that looked legit got filtered, and the only reviews kept looked like they came from paranoid people with a grudge or people who appeared to be working for the company and writing an obviously fake review.  It's too bad because otherwise I really liked that site and found it useful. |
Exactly! I read some of our business' filtered reviews and I remembered almost each person, but bc they only had a handful of reviews they were deemed "suspicious" and were filtered.
The dumb thing is, people can still read the filtered reviews. So I can load the filtered ones and read them, and then still come to my own conclusion if I want to try out that business or not. Why don't they just leave all the reviews then?
I have to admit, I still do use yelp a lot to find new restaurants, but I don't trust the info other than hours of operation! I sometimes use chowhound, but find those people utterly pretentious!