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.
Yelp is just the BBB for millennials. Fuck both of these extortionist organizations.
how could we build a federated open replacement for B2C reviews and ratings without getting it corrupted?
With code and algorithms