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Re:Bay Area woman is on a crusade to prove Yelp reviews can’... by fsckboy on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @08:44PM (#36334967)
> > Whoever solves trustworthy, honest reviews will be a very, very rich person.

> We will never have completely trustworthy user reviews.

just reading these to comments helped me figure out how to solve this: since apps have location tracking, for restaurants at least, your reviews should be weighted by how much time you spend close to a restaurant. If you claim to like a restaurant, but you don't eat there much, that means your reviews are not reliable. This unreliability would transfer to reviews of places that are not close to your home/work.

bonus points to combine it with confirmed food expenditures on your credit card/applepay.

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Re:Bay Area woman is on a crusade to prove Yelp reviews can’... by stevenwliao on Thursday June 15, 2023 @03:19AM (#36337404)
This doesn't work.

It's not that people are making up their restaurant visits.

It's that they are going to the restaurant, they had a good time, but they didn't disclose that they are close to the owner, and maybe they overlooked a few things here and there that an impartial reviewer would note.

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