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tlb on Feb 19, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: Yelp and the Business of Extortion 2.0

Someone should do the proper experiment. Create a fictitious retail business, and generate a stream of reviews for it. Any other reviews would have to be faked. If they are writing fake bad reviews and removing them for money, you would then have strong evidence.

joe_the_user on Feb 19, 2009 [–]

It is not so easy.

The behavior that you read described in this thread is placing real bad review at the top of the list, review that "normally" wouldn't be so high.

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