Would it be evil? / myLot

Shingle Springs, California

August 7, 2013 10:51am CST

So I posted a negative review here: You can see it only if you click "filtered". I think it got filtered because a bunch of my friends clicked "useful" and their filterbot must've thought it was suspicious. Anyway, the two positive reviews that you see there popped up after I posted my review. Both those people added an account on Yelp, posted the one review, and that's it. One is on the friend list of the person who she was reviewing. Sending your pals to review you is against the rules, so I reported it. So would it be evil to ask people to go and click "useful" on those two reviews in the hope that they get filtered out too?

http://www.yelp.com/biz/renee-and-maic-friedrich-keller-williams-realty-folsom

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http://www.yelp.com/biz/renee-and-maic-friedrich-keller-williams-realty-folsom

2 responses

FrugalMommy

@FrugalMommy (1438)

• United States

7 Aug 13

Their criteria for filtering "unreliable" reviews is so weird. I wrote one about a dentist I saw two years ago... it was totally honest and completely negative (among other things, the guy refused to let me see my x-rays before doing fillings and wanted to talk to my mom about everything, despite the fact that I wasn't a minor and hadn't signed a release giving him permission to talk to her about anything). It ended up getting filtered. I don't put a whole lot of faith in their system anymore.