This is complete bull####.
This is what I wrote on Buzzfeed, Yelp itself, and a couple of other national websites:
I posted a great review for a new local restaurant and Yelp stuck it in the "not recommended" pile. Oh, and the rest of their "not recommended" reviews are all 4 and 5 star as well. The reviews looked legit to me, and were pretty much on par with my personal experience, yet Yelp didn't think they needed to make the cut. All those 1 and 2 star bitch fests? Yeah, those are public and part of the rating.
There is no other reason for Yelp to do this except to extort businesses into advertising with them and punishing them when they don't. I'm sitting right here looking at it with my own eyes, with a business that I have personally reviewed.
The restaurant is Brick Wood Fired Grill in Prince Frederick, MD and anyone can get on and see for themselves the kind of crap Yelp pulls. They have lost ALL credibility with me and I will never use them for recommendations again now that I know what they do.
I am really pissed about this. I've used Yelp a great deal in the past to find out where to eat, stay, what to do, etc, when on travel and now I find out that they're really in the practice of destroying small businesses. They need to be targeted with a class-action lawsuit. I personally will never use their ass again, that's for sure.
This is what I wrote on Buzzfeed, Yelp itself, and a couple of other national websites:
I posted a great review for a new local restaurant and Yelp stuck it in the "not recommended" pile. Oh, and the rest of their "not recommended" reviews are all 4 and 5 star as well. The reviews looked legit to me, and were pretty much on par with my personal experience, yet Yelp didn't think they needed to make the cut. All those 1 and 2 star bitch fests? Yeah, those are public and part of the rating.
There is no other reason for Yelp to do this except to extort businesses into advertising with them and punishing them when they don't. I'm sitting right here looking at it with my own eyes, with a business that I have personally reviewed.
The restaurant is Brick Wood Fired Grill in Prince Frederick, MD and anyone can get on and see for themselves the kind of crap Yelp pulls. They have lost ALL credibility with me and I will never use them for recommendations again now that I know what they do.
I am really pissed about this. I've used Yelp a great deal in the past to find out where to eat, stay, what to do, etc, when on travel and now I find out that they're really in the practice of destroying small businesses. They need to be targeted with a class-action lawsuit. I personally will never use their ass again, that's for sure.