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I guess Facebook really does have an "unlike" button. Plaza Casino

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Doufous

Sep 17, 2014
8:08pm

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I like the Plaza.

Roulette Man

Sep 18, 2014
4:24am

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I usually interpret YELP reviews like Olympic judging. You are always going to have the Russian judges. I throw out the top one or two and the bottom one or two reviews and then see where everything else is. Knocking a restaurant down a notch for doing something wrong is okay, but I see people who will vote 1 star for the most minor problems.

malibber2

Sep 18, 2014
4:50am

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In big urban markets like Las Vegas the cheaters don't matter as much because their are enough real people to overcome people trying to game the system. However, in smaller cities and towns someone leaving 10 negative reviews about a competitor over the course of a year can literally put them out of business.

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Originally posted by: Roulette Man
I usually interpret YELP reviews like Olympic judging. You are always going to have the Russian judges. I throw out the top one or two and the bottom one or two reviews and then see where everything else is. Knocking a restaurant down a notch for doing something wrong is okay, but I see people who will vote 1 star for the most minor problems.

snidely333

Sep 18, 2014
9:22am

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The worst offenders are the car dealers. They flood the sites with bogus 5 star reviews.

malibber2

Sep 18, 2014
9:53am

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If you know anybody that needs them I give reviews cheap. lol

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Originally posted by: snidely333
The worst offenders are the car dealers. They flood the sites with bogus 5 star reviews.

Number51

Sep 20, 2014
4:02am

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It's easy to determine the credibility of a Yelp review. Check the poster, if they only have one review ignore it. I use Yelp all the time and have never been steered wrong using only reviews from Yelp fanatics. If somebody wants to hype their own businesses or screw the competition and they take the time to post 40 other reviews over the span of a year, they got me.

Edited to add: I saw a standup comic say this the other night. "I post pictures of food I make at home on Yelp restaurant reviews 'white toast with peanut butter served on a paper towel was not very good'".

malibber2

Sep 20, 2014
7:09am

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That is exactly the way "reputation management" works. The firm writing the reviews solicits the businesses in a particular area and writes positive reviews for all their clients. When you think about it not many people would take the time to sit down and write reviews of 40 places over the course of a year for nothing. Maybe one or two that they really liked or disliked but that is it.

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Originally posted by: Number51
It's easy to determine the credibility of a Yelp review. Check the poster, if they only have one review ignore it. I use Yelp all the time and have never been steered wrong using only reviews from Yelp fanatics. If somebody wants to hype their own businesses or screw the competition and they take the time to post 40 other reviews over the span of a year, they got me.

Edited to add: I saw a standup comic say this the other night. "I post pictures of food I make at home on Yelp restaurant reviews 'white toast with peanut butter served on a paper towel was not very good'".

jatki

Sep 20, 2014
7:55am

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Originally posted by: malibber2
That is exactly the way "reputation management" works. The firm writing the reviews solicits the businesses in a particular area and writes positive reviews for all their clients. When you think about it not many people would take the time to sit down and write reviews of 40 places over the course of a year for nothing. Maybe one or two that they really liked or disliked but that is it.

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Originally posted by: Number51
It's easy to determine the credibility of a Yelp review. Check the poster, if they only have one review ignore it. I use Yelp all the time and have never been steered wrong using only reviews from Yelp fanatics. If somebody wants to hype their own businesses or screw the competition and they take the time to post 40 other reviews over the span of a year, they got me.

Edited to add: I saw a standup comic say this the other night. "I post pictures of food I make at home on Yelp restaurant reviews 'white toast with peanut butter served on a paper towel was not very good'".

I wonder how many people here have written reviews on any social media? I've never put anything on yelp but I have written a few things on tripadvisor, I'm a pretty big fan of TA.

Number51

Sep 20, 2014
9:21am

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Originally posted by: Number51
It's easy to determine the credibility of a Yelp review. Check the poster, if they only have one review ignore it. I use Yelp all the time and have never been steered wrong using only reviews from Yelp fanatics. If somebody wants to hype their own businesses or screw the competition and they take the time to post 40 other reviews over the span of a year, they got me.

Edited to add: I saw a standup comic say this the other night. "I post pictures of food I make at home on Yelp restaurant reviews 'white toast with peanut butter served on a paper towel was not very good'".

Nope. I specifically used the term "Yelp Fanatic" for a reason. Their are people that live for that shit, I know some. If you look at a posters profile you can tell if they're real, it's equally easy to spot the paid shills, just use common sense.

BTW reply to posts beneath the quoted post please.

malibber2

Sep 20, 2014
11:11am

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Originally posted by: Number51

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Originally posted by: malibber2
That is exactly the way "reputation management" works. The firm writing the reviews solicits the businesses in a particular area and writes positive reviews for all their clients. When you think about it not many people would take the time to sit down and write reviews of 40 places over the course of a year for nothing. Maybe one or two that they really liked or disliked but that is it.

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Originally posted by: Number51
It's easy to determine the credibility of a Yelp review. Check the poster, if they only have one review ignore it. I use Yelp all the time and have never been steered wrong using only reviews from Yelp fanatics. If somebody wants to hype their own businesses or screw the competition and they take the time to post 40 other reviews over the span of a year, they got me.

Edited to add: I saw a standup comic say this the other night. "I post pictures of food I make at home on Yelp restaurant reviews 'white toast with peanut butter served on a paper towel was not very good'".

The professional cheaters are hard to spot trust me. I don't doubt there are a few fanatics that foolishly give it away for free, but in the small towns and cities I work a restaurant that has been in business for 5 years might have three reviews usually all of them are bad because the only people that write reviews in these small markets are people that had a bad experience. Somebody that is writing 40 reviews a year on Yelp for restaurants in the same market could start their own foodie blog and easily bring in 10k-20k a year for doing the same thing they are already doing.

I worked with a Chinese buffet once that had been in operation for 7-8 years. In that time span they had gone through three ownership changes, the restaurant had been closed for a year, the building had completely burned down and been rebuilt yet all the negative reviews were from prior owners and in the prior building. What's funny of the five negative reviews they had three of them went something like this

"I arrived at 3:30 in the afternoon on a weekday and the food on the buffet wasn't fresh."

Please shoot yourself in the head if you don't know when to eat at a buffet.

Just thought I'd add right now I am writing fake reviews for cam girls. It is one of the better review gigs I have ever had. Always assume any type of "review" you read on the internet is fake.

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