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Re:Yelp Extortion Allegations Stack Up (March 2009) by poutine on Tuesday January 19, 2010 @03:02PM (#1063003)
There's a lot of spammers on Yelp. I have no problem with this on new users as businesses will often post reviews of themselves to drive up traffic.
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Re:Yelp Extortion Allegations Stack Up (March 2009) by pyre on Tuesday January 19, 2010 @09:29PM (#1063869)
But why not tell the user that it was flagged as spam and/or delete it from their profile page? Why let the user believe that their review is still there when it isn't? Maybe this is a way to fool the spammers into believing that their spamming is working, but it really is a poor experience for legitimate users, no?
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