Yelp Cheats

[xsg]

I've just discovered for myself that Yelp cheats, hiding bad reviews presumably if a store owner desires it (the rumor is that Yelp charges for this service).

On December 18th, 2009, I logged into Yelp for the first time and provided some reviews to the establishments I was familiar with.  I wrote one scathing review about Scopazzi's Restaurant and

Comments

[leelia]

How long ago did you originally post your yelp review? I know its kind of beside the point, but do you really think its fair a bad review three years later when the place has changed ownership without even mentioning that it was under different ownership at the time? The restaurant may _now_ be much better than it was...

I mean, if I started a new job, I wouldn't want to get blamed for the previous employee's mistakes...

[veryscary]

another seemingly helpful thing on the internet proves to be not as awesome as it previously seemed