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Re:She Gave a Hotel a Mediocre Review. Then Came the Badgering by Buttons840 on Tuesday December 19, 2023 @12:10AM (#38692079)
Leave a 5 star review, get your gift card, then change or remove your review. If this was done often enough nobody would even try buying reviews.
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Re:She Gave a Hotel a Mediocre Review. Then Came the Badgering by kstrauser on Tuesday December 19, 2023 @12:19AM (#38692130)
That's an option. Still, it's not worth the small amount of money, to me, for a skeevy vendor like that to be able to say that they've paid me.

Like, I don't judge. And when I was younger and broke half the time, I might've leapt at the easy money. I just wouldn't do it today.

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Re:She Gave a Hotel a Mediocre Review. Then Came the Badgering by Buttons840 on Tuesday December 19, 2023 @07:19AM (#38694656)
It's not about the money to me either.

I see it as, somebody acts unethically, and I can either (1) go along with their unethical behavior and personally benefit and encourage further unethical behavior, (2) refuse to participate, or (3) refuse to participate and discourage the unethical behavior.

You choose 2 and I choose 3.

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Re:She Gave a Hotel a Mediocre Review. Then Came the Badgering by kstrauser on Tuesday December 19, 2023 @09:00AM (#38695567)
That’s fair. If you want to scam the scammer, darned if I’ll say you’re wrong for doing it. It’s not my thing, but fine by me if you do.
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