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jfc Yelp needs to be shut down already
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Date: November 20th, 2018 1:06 PM Author: metal electric coffee pot university this site is just a rent-seeking scheme to blackmail small businesses into paying them to take down negative reviews. these "reviews" are a complete joke, too. it's all a bunch of psycho shrews bitching about shit that only ever happened in their minds, mixed in with a bunch of blatantly obvious 5-star shill "reviews"
example:
"I called _______ upset and the manager, Phil, called me "shrill," said that I "needed to take a Valium," and asked "to speak to [my] husband." That's some delightfully sexist language right there."
no lady, you're just a psycho urban shrew who has no idea wtf is going on, and this small business owner has way better stuff to do than listen to your babbling. but it's cool, you can just go online to yelp and passive-aggressively smear him with zero consequences. what an awesome "community"! |
Date: November 20th, 2018 1:10 PM Author: Fishy quadroon (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4138219&forum_id=2#37270693) |
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Date: November 20th, 2018 1:12 PM Author: bat shit crazy jade location boistinker do they take down bad reviews in exchange for payment? i thought they were YUGE virtue signalers about NOT doing that, although i wouldn't be surprised if they came up with some shady way to do it on the sly (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4138219&forum_id=2#37270713) |
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Date: November 20th, 2018 1:15 PM Author: metal electric coffee pot university the latter half of your assumption is correct
if you contact them asking them to take down the bogus bad reviews from people trying to smear you, they tell you that they "can't do it." but if you sign up for advertising/promoted content with them, then you are able to have your reviews curated
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Date: November 20th, 2018 1:16 PM Author: bateful lay toaster How does that work? What do you mean by curated? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4138219&forum_id=2#37270752) |
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Date: November 20th, 2018 1:19 PM Author: bat shit crazy jade location boistinker oh really, so how does it go down? i'm assuming their "content partners (((paid)))" can't shitmod every review of theirs that's less than 4.5 stars, but CAN have long screeds/highly descriptive derogatory reviews determined to be "outliers" and deleted or moved to "unverified/not recommended" reviews? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4138219&forum_id=2#37270773) |
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Date: November 20th, 2018 1:30 PM Author: metal electric coffee pot university i don't really want to go on a long autistic screed here, but yes it basically works like that. their salespeople will also aggressively pursue you and heavily imply (but not outright state explicitly!) that they will take down bad reviews if you sign up for an advertising plan, or that they will take down good reviews if you don't. and they do follow through on these threats
i know a bunch of small business owners who have had to go through this bullshit and it's just really sad that this is apparently legally permissible
https://nypost.com/2014/10/13/restaurant-fights-yelps-alleged-extortion/
"The court is one rung below the US Supreme Court and the ruling could have been a definitive one for Yelp.
Instead, it served to fuel the company’s critics because the court said that, even if Yelp did manipulate reviews to penalize businesses, the practice would not constitute extortion."
oh what a "legal system" |
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Date: November 20th, 2018 1:34 PM Author: aromatic piazza associate https://www.buzzfeed.com/sandraeallen/is-yelp-evil-or-just-misunderstood (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4138219&forum_id=2#37270838) |
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Date: November 20th, 2018 1:14 PM Author: bateful lay toaster Would be awesome to be rich and have a business and just ask to speak to a shrew’s husband every time one complained. Compile the reactions and share on XO. Would be a POTY candidate IMO. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4138219&forum_id=2#37270734) |
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Date: November 20th, 2018 1:38 PM Author: Comical site this would be a hilariously effective retort to a certain type of woman (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4138219&forum_id=2#37270865) |
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Date: November 20th, 2018 1:22 PM Author: arousing slate church brethren your comments were sexist, Phil (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4138219&forum_id=2#37270781) |
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Date: November 20th, 2018 1:33 PM Author: metal electric coffee pot university https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Stoppelman
"Jeremy Stoppelman (born November 10, 1977) is an American business executive. He is the CEO of Yelp, which he co-founded in 2004.
Early life Stoppelman was born in Arlington, Virginia in 1977.[2][3] His mother, Lynn, was an English teacher, and his father, John, was a securities lawyer.[4] Stoppelman is Jewish. He attended a Reform temple as a child and had a Bar Mitzvah.[5]"
this sort of bold-faced, brazenly parasitic business model would never even occur to a goy. really sad that we allow this sort of thing to happen |
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Date: November 20th, 2018 1:41 PM Author: maize really tough guy Lol (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4138219&forum_id=2#37270878) |