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Re:OpenTable is adding your first name to previously anonymo... by FireBeyond on Thursday April 11, 2024 @07:06PM (#40007762)
> But critics of the past were never anonymous. If you review film or food or anything, and it got published you put your name next to it.

Partially. You would -publish- with your name beside it, but you were anonymous when you went to the restaurant, so they wouldn't know you were a critic.

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Re:OpenTable is adding your first name to previously anonymo... by zer00eyz on Thursday April 11, 2024 @07:26PM (#40007895)
In the case of restaurants this is true. It's to avoid special treatment.

Unlike art, music, and film. Where "special treatment" would have to be bribery (and that does happen).

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