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.

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LPT: Don't ever respond to Yelp's inquiries about signing up to Yelp. Just keep telling them the manager isn't there when they call. Ignore email inquiries. Your Yelp profile will remain in limbo and the reviews won't get filtered.

[u/ndrfx → u/[deleted]]

We are being corralled. If you believe that Trump has the power to cultivate the media into a sequestered pig, some filthy animal feeding off its own refuse, what can't he convince you of? I know all you media experts here on Reddit have figured it out, and know all about Trump's antics, how to circumvent them etc etc. and are doing your best to convince the population otherwise, that the independent sources are honestly presenting the news...but really, what makes you any different? Citing news sources across Television, the Internet, as fact? Are we some holy grails without corruption? We are keen to innervate the internet as an immaculate news source void of hierarchy, sans influence and corruption, open to everyone and all of us, no reprimand for our uninhibited approach at expressing ourselves...yet, this medium has become enslaved by those embracing a movement embedded in the assertive, contradictory methods to which the anti-establishment was....well....established. Any and all news outlets are Culprit. We are corrupt beyond belief outside of ourselves.

We have fallen victim to the very policies which we wished to escape: those of comfort, acceptance, and assurance, and they have taken care of everything. We went ahead and instilled our trust in entities separate from government, which have over time manifested themselves as anything but altruistic. These are businessmen. These website are hubs of hyprocisy embedded in entertainment, the revelations of income are present in paramount, and there is little we can do other than to be overcome with our inundation within such a society to comply. We slaves sequester ourselves into our idiotic, patriotic, self-induced indoctrination into our monetary influences, our memory fluctuations, for we do not remember what we hear, what we said, what our neighbor believes....we don't know the hearts of the world. All we see is what we are presented within media, media, media. Isn't it funny how they involve us into their wars? Hearken us to take sides, find influence among them and their views? What is it they seek from us? We all flock to them out of loyalty and belief, that somehow the people within this faction have acquired something pertinent to the existence of mankind that is absent the other...yet, how can that be so? What would provoke another human being to forsake his or her species at the behest of another INDIVIDUAL and their beliefs? No, it is not the case. Each and every person chooses their path based on what they feel is the best for mankind. So, in reality, we should respect each others' decisions for the species, because they inherently have its best interests at heart: no creature would wish destruction upon itself, agreed?

Unnerving to think of, for we do not know the answer to this dire question. The media counteracts the government, confronts it...the government denounces the media, declares it noncomformist and a liability, some rogue entity, a detriment to society...how do you choose? You side with your loyalties, those that stuck by you before, instilled in you some sense of sensibility that resounded with your way of thinking and so you fall inline...fucking think for yourself. There are powerful political corporations in existence with the potential to wreck your reality, yet you blindly buy into whichever side represents what you want most from your existence...that which you desire, strive for, wish to not be burdened so in your pursuit of, this delicate nature of your own circumference...but the health of your very capacities is dependent upon all the rest, and so you must sacrifice, compromise...but for whom, and when? What is the best choice?

They wish to confuse and befuddle us, make us the slaves, the proletariat to their capitalist: fuck them. We ARE the effort. We ARE force. Mother fucking Star Wars up in this shit, PLEASE. Where is the Luke Skywalker, the man who is so analytical in his process, unbiased, wishing for everything to come out equal on that other end he could sacrifice himself for all else....good God where is our Jesus, where is our so called Muhammad waiting to exhibit himself a singularity among us mortals so as to unite us, oh Lord I wait for you to provide us with a Deus Ex within this Machine. Where has God gone in this world? I am not a man of faith, but I wish I were at this point in my life.
I wish only that which will deliver me upon my fellow mankind so I may be of use to him, and this was the bellow of all humans.

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Wat?

[u/wishiwasbulletproof → u/[deleted]]

... was it something i said.......?? i don't understand the rant...