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Re:Judge: There’s no proof Yelp manipulates reviews by jacquesm on Monday November 30, 2015 @11:02AM (#10650041)
> Yelp as a company has no way of knowing what shady practices their sales people use to try and get an ad sale.

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Re:Judge: There’s no proof Yelp manipulates reviews by mc32 on Monday November 30, 2015 @11:32AM (#10650198)
Right but how long do they retain any recordings and what percentage are reviewed for policy violation? And what if the employee calls from an unmonitored phone (personal) on their own time or even company time in order to increase their personal sales at the expense of company reputation, for example. It's not unheard of for sales staff to go off the reservation in order to better compete against hamstrung staff.
Re:Judge: There’s no proof Yelp manipulates reviews by jacquesm on Monday November 30, 2015 @11:57AM (#10650351)
That's a matter of making sure that any sales representatives that might get ideas like these realize that such are capital offenses, as in: do this and you're out.
Re:Judge: There’s no proof Yelp manipulates reviews by ViViDboarder on Monday November 30, 2015 @10:06PM (#10653438)
Which has happened. The Rossman incident shows that reps are fired for breaking rules regarding do not call and do not email and for having friends write false reviews.