Business cancels Yelp advertising contract, negative reviews start pouring in

Re:Business cancels Yelp advertising contract, negative revi... by swsieber on Monday May 01, 2017 @10:26AM (#14237651)

It'd be interesting to figure out how Yelp generates the negative reviews. I'd love to see somebody setup a "honeypot" business - fake, doesn't exist in real life (well, physically/location wise)... and then sign up with Yelp and then cancel. Do that with a good 10-100 fake businesses, and could you drum up a case against Yelp?

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Re:Business cancels Yelp advertising contract, negative revi... by asdfasdf222 on Monday May 01, 2017 @11:06AM (#14238074)

I remember reading long ago that they don't generate negative reviews, but they change their sort magic to let the negative ones bubble up to the top.

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Re:Business cancels Yelp advertising contract, negative revi... by TruthSHIFT on Monday May 01, 2017 @12:17PM (#14238834)

No problem. Just seed the Honeypot with fake reviews. Make 50% of the review positive and 50% negative. Then, check to see which reviews are favored on Yelp before and after signing up and cancelling service.

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Re:Business cancels Yelp advertising contract, negative revi... by clxsi on Monday May 01, 2017 @10:33AM (#14237713)

This is a really good idea.

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Re:Business cancels Yelp advertising contract, negative revi... by corndoge on Monday May 01, 2017 @10:45AM (#14237839)

If you have money to blow on advertising contracts and are willing to lie on the contracts or spin up 10-100 LLCs

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