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This really sucks for OP, but my first thought on seeing yelp was:

"People still use yelp? I thought it was widely known that they suppress bad reviews for money, and suppress good reviews if you don't pay."

Yelp's path to monetization has always been kind of scummy IMO.



> "People still use yelp? I thought it was widely known that they suppress bad reviews for money, and suppress good reviews if you don't pay."

A judge said that it wasn't extortion for yelp to hide good reviews until a company pays yelp, and that it wasn't extortion for yelp to remove bad reviews for companies that do pay them money though so I guess we're supposed to act like that's acceptable behavior and that their reviews can be considered trustworthy




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