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Yelp has a wall of shame for businesses caught paying for fake reviews (www.engadget.com)
submitted 1 year ago by L4s to c/technology
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Yelp has a wall of shame for businesses caught paying for fake reviews::Yelp has a new tool to help people track businesses that have tried to manipulate their standing on the review platform..

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[–] Exusia 14 points 1 year ago

Because it's not about normal people browsing it, it's about them saying "we put you on our wall of shame "pay us instead of those fake reviewers!" And then removing the business from their tidy, alphabatized, excel spreadsheet that the esoteric algorithm the "wall of shame" randomly pulls from.

It's about blackmail :D