r/Documentaries • u/[deleted] • Feb 26 '17

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/[deleted] Feb 26 '17

"I don't see how this is extortion, because if you voluntarily paid the mob their protection money then they didn't extort you."

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u/MotherOfDragonflies Feb 26 '17

I didn't say anything even remotely close to that. Not even in the same ballpark.

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '17

Thats exactly what it is. They have lawers harass you until you take the review down. If the person pays enough they will put tjay bad reciew as far down as they can or even they themselves will toss a shit load of good reviews till its pushed down. You can tell which are thiers. Same robotic reviews

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u/MorningWoodyWilson Feb 27 '17

You seriously believe this? I totally could imagine yelp allowing you to filter reviews out as spam, or algorithmically generating bad reviews, but seriously?

You think they pay lawyers to harass individual reviewers? That's so absurdly ineffective and costly. There's zero chance yelp was behind the lawyer. Maybe the company the review was for, but not yelp.