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Comment on Why I don’t trust Yelp by Jenna

Jenna — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 08:26:38 +0000

I have submitted 6 reviews on Yelp over the course of the year, and all but 1 has been suppressed. Most of them were positive and only one business was rated a 1-star. I don’t care to go into the minutiae of Yelp’s filtering system,so I don’t care why my reviews were suppressed. I am more concerned that Yelp is engaging in deceptive practices by encouraging people to submit reviews, which take a lot of time and effort to put together. And now, Yelp is planning an IPO to cash in on the (uncompensated) efforts of its “reviewers”. I am through providing free labor to Yelp. It has no credibility. I also suggest going to alternative websites which publish ALL submitted reviews.

Comment on Intuit QuickBooks Pro 2007 on Windows Vista Home by Sam

Sam — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 08:10:26 +0000

Same problem….

Comment on Why I don’t trust Yelp by Estella

Estella — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 13:30:41 +0000

Hi folks.
I was a new Yelp user too. My first post on a dining experience was removed after two days (and two useful ratings by yelp users). I suggest visiting alternative websites to Yelp to get your message heard.

http://www.urbanspoon.com/
http://www.chowhound.chow.com
http://www.tripadvisor.com

Comment on Why I don’t trust Yelp by Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 18:04:31 +0000

Yeah. I just discovered my reviews both positive and nagative are not showing. What is the point in wasting my time on this site when I can post a review on another site or a blog and see it. I’ll never go on Yelp again. What a great idea I thought Yelp was, but once again, idiots prevail. If someone is going to take the time to write a review, then most of the time there is a good reason for it.Most people have better things to do with their time. I will not waste anymore of mine on Yelp.

Comment on Why I don’t trust Yelp by Latch S.

Latch S. — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 01:20:25 +0000

It is true. Yelp is not honest! I had bad experience with Japanese Beetle Inc. They ripped me off $440 for a regular car checkup. I posted 1 star review which was filtered it wasn’t included in the ratings.
I went to this place, because of great reviews in the first place. Thus Yelp collaborated in this scam!

What significance it makes how many reviews one already wrote? If the review is FACTUAL and not purely perception – it is genuine in my book. I can’t care less about professional pitchers who wrote 1000 reviews. Yelp MUST go!

Comment on Why I don’t trust Yelp by Trina L.

Trina L. — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 21:23:37 +0000

I have the same problem with Yelp. My review only appears when I am logged in. If I am not logged in it does not appear. This is very shady? Why is Yelp trying to fool me into thinking my review has been posted? I suspect that they are getting a payoff from the company (ie. sponsorship or advertising).

I don’t trust Yelp, and I won’t be using it in the future.

Comment on Why I don’t trust Yelp by FFMom

FFMom — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 02:31:27 +0000

Same thing – my posts only appear when I am logged on – I don’t only post bad reviews either – gave a glowing review of a restaurant in Auburn, NY and unfortunately it’s not in the “public” view – what a joke yelp is! I won’t be using it for my research of businesses any more now that I realize how slighted the information!

Comment on The decreasing importance of longhand by James Landay

James Landay — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 05:58:10 +0000

People have been saying this for 10-15 years and I haven’t seen much movement. I have little kids and all the schools they have been in still start with pencils and do it for years. I think we will do both, just move to keyboards earlier. These devices are still slower than a piece of paper and pen for quick notes.

Comment on The decreasing importance of longhand by admin

admin — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 20:46:05 +0000

@VoottooChief: Absolutely, the iPad would make for a great Wacom replacement. Having a pen/brush for it would be even better. I’m all for that. My point is that we won’t be “writing” much. Using a tablet for sketching, painting, coloring, doing CAD work etc. makes perfect sense. I just don’t think “writing” using longhand is going to be around too long. Keyboards and voice are way more efficient.

Comment on iPhone’s Achilles’ heel: lack of background processing by Ish Harshawat

Ish Harshawat — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 20:29:44 +0000

While I too am a bit disappointed by the lack of major iPhone OS updates including some form of background processing — I think Apple has a huge lead based on its uniform UI paradigm and lead in pure number of apps. I have used Nexus One. I am very unimpressed. While its great for geeks like you and me all the apps run differently from each other and the learning curve is just to steep.The mobile developer in me is scared by Android because of the sheer device fragmentation issues and lack of a uniform addressable market. I think Apple will introduce backgrounding later. How would I do it? App registers to wake up at a periodic intervals. A central timer dispatches the appropriate notification. Simple observer pattern that should deal with the battery life issues.

But i’m not worried for Apple they have lots of lead time on their competitors.