Yelp has started publicly naming and shaming businesses that pay for reviews. The review site’s new index documents businesses offering everything from a crisp $100 bill for leaving the best review to a $400 Home Depot gift card for a five-star review. It also lists every business whose reviews have ever been suspected of suspicious activity, like spamming the site with multiple reviews from a single IP address.

  • Dick Justice
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    331 year ago

    Yelp is a failed experiment. Let it die.

    • @[email protected]
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      fedilink
      281 year ago

      ⭐️ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
      Dick_Justice is an asshole

      We realize negative comments can disproportionately affect newer Lemmy users like you. For a small fee and a big apology, we’d be happy to make sure these most-likely unjust reviews do not impact your overall rating. We’d sure hate for this one-star review to accidentally end up as the top review for such a nice user as yourself.