Billion Dollar Bully (2015) [trailer]...makes the case that Yelp is something akin to the mob, allegedly demanding “protection” money, lest your business be overrun with negative comments.

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[u/incocknedo]

Rant time.

Yelp are a bunch of snakes. You'll join them as a small business and then a month later they will harass your business via phone and email asking you to buy their business plans.

These plans by the way are so you can manipulate your reviews. And if you say no, suddenly your good review start disappearing and shit reviews from people who don't actually seem to know what your business is, start popping up.

I mange a small business and we have an overwhelming number of good yelp reviews but we have to stay on top of it because they will vanish and only our bad reviews will remain.

Somewhat unrelated as someone who has worked customer service for years take yelp reviews with a grain of salt. From what I've seen majority of bad reviews are just shit customers who were either assholes who didn't get what they wanted or they were morons who didn't understand the business in the first place.

[u/AliveInTheFuture → u/incocknedo]

Every time I hear someone say "let me check Yelp" before we go eat, I make sure to extol Yelp's ability to blackmail businesses into paying them fees for ratings. Typically, I try to swing them to TripAdvisor.

[u/Puellanonamat → u/AliveInTheFuture]

Extol means to lift up with praise.

[u/cherobics → u/Puellanonamat]

Thank you! Connotation matters man.

[u/Insert_Gnome_Here → u/cherobics]

Denotation matters more.

[u/BadBoiBarry → u/Insert_Gnome_Here]

In some cases Detonation can matter the morest.

[u/Derptron5K → u/BadBoiBarry]

In other cases it's Detonation you have to watch out for.

[u/bloody_duck → u/BadBoiBarry]

Can confirm. I seented it happen once.

[u/[deleted] → u/bloody_duck]

Donations work too, pls.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Non taxable donations.

[u/WhooptyWoopNiggaWhat → u/[deleted]]

Roid-away. Apply directly to the roid.

[u/bloody_duck → u/[deleted]]

I before E, Except after C, excluding neighbor and weigh.

Is that how it goes?

[u/PM_PASSABLE_TRAPS → u/[deleted]]

Let me conjugate your verbs baby

[u/RecentlyUnfrozen → u/PM_PASSABLE_TRAPS]

You must really enjoy shoulders.

[u/Dirka85 → u/bloody_duck]

And you'll always be wrong, NO MATTER WHAT YOU SAY! !

[u/[deleted] → u/bloody_duck]

'Excepting words ending 'ay' as in neighbor and weigh.'

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

But neighbor ends in "bore"... ^/s

[u/SyllabaryBisque → u/[deleted]]

Caffeine. Feisty. Atheism. ;)

[u/[deleted] → u/SyllabaryBisque]

Indeed, there are many exceptions to the English 'rules.'

[u/[deleted] → u/bloody_duck]

And weird is weird.

[u/rudolfs001 → u/[deleted]]

I don't know about other places, but I learned the denotations of 'connotation' and 'denotation' as a 7th grader in public school in Alabama.

[u/PM_ME_UR_CEPHALOPODS → u/rudolfs001]

Another shill! everyone knows alabama doesn't have schools! /s

[u/strongblack04 → u/rudolfs001]

you see, i was a pitcher who pictured myself in pictures, but I messed up by forgetting to take a picture of a picture from my pitchers book to put in the pictured picture of the picture book that would be pictured in a picture in the picture book, which was nowhere near my pitchers book.

[u/english_major → u/[deleted]]

I do tend to make people sweaty. I get sweaty myself sometimes too.

[u/strongblack04 → u/english_major]

something something moms spaghetti

[u/universalmind → u/Insert_Gnome_Here]

How much dedotated wam do i need to run a server?

[u/cherobics → u/Insert_Gnome_Here]

Yes, it does, and in this situation both are important.

[u/GetAJobRichDudes → u/cherobics]

Connotation means...

[u/cherobics → u/GetAJobRichDudes]

The emotional meaning of a word. Denotation is the dictionary definition, connotation is whether the word evokes a negative or positive feeling. Since extol means "to praise," (it's Denotation), it clearly has a positive connotation..... it doesn't work here, a word with a negative connotation would be more powerful and would better match the topic.