Why Yelp Works - Hackdot

Re:Why Yelp Works by kschrader on Tuesday May 13, 2008 @01:32PM (#188811)

Everytime I look something up on Yelp, if it has more than, say, 5 reviews, the rating always seems to be between 3.5 and 4.5.

That's not useful, other than to find the address of a place that I already know about. A vote of 4 seems to be the safe vote on Yelp.

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Re:Why Yelp Works by soundsop on Tuesday May 13, 2008 @02:47PM (#188886)

I wonder if a Reddit-style upvote/downvote system might be a better voting system for Yelp. You are forced to choose whether you are recommending a place or not. No wishy-washy in-between score like 3 is available.

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Re:Why Yelp Works by rms on Wednesday May 14, 2008 @05:56AM (#189423)

The reviews themselves are what is useful... usually I can tell what to expect and that is definitely good enough.

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