I know everyone will be shocked, but our former friends, the Mods over at Chowhound, just pulled down my simple link to the Globe article.
Good God.
I know everyone will be shocked, but our former friends, the Mods over at Chowhound, just pulled down my simple link to the Globe article.
Good God.
Hi, SS:
Would someone please explain why these Alexa graphs are designed to show downward trends in an UPWARD direction?
Thanks,
Kaleo
But they left this one up:
Lots of references to Hungry Onion remain on this thread as well.
Good for them. Maybe the Chowhound mods have finally gain back some confidence, or they just gave up. I donât know which. Regardless, they should know by now that the real threat for Chowhound is internal not external. Chowhoundâs problem is not HungryOnion or eGullet. Chowhoundâs problem is its own web design and its previous moderation attitude.
You could ask Professor Backwards, but he died after his cries of âpleh, pleh!â went ignored.
Really? And what are the âstandard evaluation criteriaâ for those posting on Yelp?
In my opinion, both Yelp and Chow has their pros and cons. I think Chow is more interactive. You can post a question and get a few personal answer to address to your specific question. Yelp on the other hand is very quick if you know exactly what you are looking for. If I know the name of the restaurant in a city, I can get an average score from Yelp in 3 seconds. I do think Yelp has the problem that âtoo many of anyoneâ can post, so the expert opinions are buried under the novice opinions.
ummmm⌠hmmm⌠errrrr⌠Okay. Scratch Yelp!
âŚthe expert opinions are buried under the novice opinions.
actually, it is much more likely that at Yelp - ârealâ opinions are buried under tons and tons and tons of âfakeâ / shill opinions.
Yelp is a for profit business. if a business entity pays their âadvertisingâ fee any âbadâ reviews can be deleted, and mysteriously hundreds of âgoodâ reviews are made to appear.
lawsuits apply.
That actually isnât true.
Interesting take. Probably some of that too.
Why, yes. Yes it is . . .
Any actual factual evidence of this? Iâm skeptical.
Be as skeptical as you like â Iâve been fighting with Yelp over shill reviews and the fees they want me to pay for three years.
Over shill reviews of your business? Iâm confused. Any documentation? emails, evidence, etc?
Iâm not sure why this is so confusing. Our business â and those of many other businesses (just do a simple internet search using your search engine of choice) â have suffered âshill reviewsâ which Yelp offers to remove for a price, and if you continue to pay them every month . . .
And if you donât, they will actually go so far as to block real (positive) reviews from being posting, claiming that they (Yelp) arenât sure they (the reviews) are real. HONEST! We had âdiscussionsâ over that, too. (You canât make up $#|+ like that!)
As Iâve said, you are fully entitled to be as skeptical as you like. But let me ask you this, do you REALLY think Yelp is going to put something in writing admitting to âshill reviewsâ? Just curious . . .
Iâm not in my office at the moment. IF (and itâs a big âifâ) I have any emails they are from our business to Yelp and approx. three years old. I honestly donât know if we still have them. All of Yelpâs âcorrespondenceâ in return has been telephonic. (No one ever said they were stupid.)
IIRC, there was actually a court case involving Yelp and its reviews, but the details escape me at the moment. Iâll see if I can find it.
P.S. Just for Yelpâs crack legal team: Everything stated herein is my own personal opinion, does nât represent the opinion or official position of any business or businesses I might be connected to, and is covered under my First Amendment rights of Free Speech expression. (I have no idea if that will protect me from a libel/slander suit, but Iâm not looking forward to getting slapped with one.)
if you have a search engine handy, type is
fake yelp reviews
thereâs many hits, thereâs multitudes of lawsuits, and you can even read about Yelp! effort to identify / delete fake posts and the Yelp! lawsuits against companies hiring people to write fake reviews.
it makes the news wires, time to time.
There are also plenty of companies - usually advertising as âSocial Media Managementâ - that will pay big bucks for positive or negative reviews. If youâre an âElite,â you can make over $500 a review, provided the post stays visible for a certain time period. If the company then loses that client, the reviewer is asked to remove their review.
(No, I have not done this. Yes, I have been approached multiple times to do so. Hard to turn down rather decent money, but itâs far too unethical for me - especially the negative reviews.)
My comment is specifically in response to this statement, which is untrue, despite the many anecdotes you read on the interest.
And Yelp hasnât lost a lawsuit around this yet. Allegations are not proof.
Holy carp. Why I am doing here?
I thought I was making it big when I get free products to review from Amazon (I donât do it anymore because it is very time consuming to review a product).
You have higher standard than I do. I just tell every ladies I met that they are the âmost beautifulâ woman I have met.