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Originally posted by: malibber2
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.
Originally posted by: malibber2
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Originally posted by: Number51Quote
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.Quote
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.
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.
First, thanks for the under quote response.
I completely agree on the Chinese buffet stupidity. There is a very good one by my house that let's me fill up a to go container for $5 before 4:15. The stuff is 3 hours old but well worth $5.
On the Yelp thing, I know two Yelp fanatics and trust me, no one would go to their food blog. They review everything, attorneys, dry cleaners, landscapers, wedding photographers, I find it bizzare. They talk about the "Yelp community", they correspond every day, have meetups, the whole online community deal. It's not that different than this place, people that are glued to LVA FFA all day everyday, I think that is messed up, but it seems to make them happy.
I talked with one Yelp fanatic about LVA and she couldn't believe that people had ten's of thousands of posts on a Vegas board. I see her point, at least the Yelpers believe, right or wrong, they are helping people.
I find it easy to pick out the shills v the real Yelpers, they do to. Just like spammers that show up here now and then. I understand that some dim wits will believe anything they read on the internet, but you don't need to be a genius to use Yelp successfully. I've had nothing but good luck following the advise given by SELECTED reviewers.
