Foursquare now gives ratings for locations, becomes Yelp competitor

Re:Foursquare now gives ratings for locations, becomes Yelp ... by arohner on Monday November 05, 2012 @06:42PM (#4746459)

> The problem isn't Yelp-specific. .. The problem is entirely human.

Absolutely. So one part of the solution is to stop putting restaurants on an "objective" 1-5 scale, and averaging every human together.

Instead, cluster restaurants so you can "people who liked the overrated, pretentious mess also liked X..."

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Re:Foursquare now gives ratings for locations, becomes Yelp ... by bduerst on Monday November 05, 2012 @06:48PM (#4746488)

Or using a backend weighting system for computing total score for a location.

Low weights: new users, numerous reviews (spamming), low rated reviews

High weights: older users, high rated reviews

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Re:Foursquare now gives ratings for locations, becomes Yelp ... by saumil07 on Monday November 05, 2012 @10:37PM (#4747142)

Yelp actually does have an algorithm for computing the final star rating. It is not a simple average across all ratings. It takes contributor status on Yelp, age of review and other signals into account before the final score is published. You can, of course, dig into the rating distribution to see the spread between 1 and 5 but I doubt that most users go that far.

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Re:Foursquare now gives ratings for locations, becomes Yelp ... by arebop on Monday November 05, 2012 @07:44PM (#4746636)

Google tried this, but to a first approximation nobody used/uses Hotpot/Google Places/Google+ Local.

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