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Re:Yelp Accused of Hiding Positive Reviews for Non-Advertiser by melq on Wednesday January 10, 2018 @11:21PM (#16121371)
>A statement was sent along with a screenshot of 14 reviews Yelp claims came from the same IP address belonging to Sinnott’s Yelp account.

Probably because they were all on the cafe's wifi network when they reviewed the place.

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Re:Yelp Accused of Hiding Positive Reviews for Non-Advertiser by tyingq on Wednesday January 10, 2018 @11:33PM (#16121407)
A good observation that someone at Yelp! probably missed. Nice catch.

I personally hate this sort of anonymous group think thing where's there is no way to get a human to look into dumb processes and policies. YouTube seems to be in a similar place with copyright claims. No way to get a human to look into obvious failings of automated (or dumb manual) policy enforcement.

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Re:Yelp Accused of Hiding Positive Reviews for Non-Advertiser by DrScump on Thursday January 11, 2018 @01:54AM (#16121927) 

  there is no way to get a human to look into...
Yelp's Talk forums in many cities have been bombarded with spam postings for fake toll-free support numbers for numerous brands. They persist for days in many cases. There seems to be little staff supervision of their site contents as a whole.
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