nytimes.com— Yelp.com will let business owners respond directly to users to correct inaccuracies, but not to advertise or make personal attacks.
Apr 10, 2009View in Crawl 4
How is letting business owners defend themselves going to erode freedom? Nothing is being taken away here -- the very essence of freedom of speech is letting all sides have a voice.This seems really fair, and will provide a great opportunity for business to show people what they're really made of. You can tell a ton about people and the business they run by the way they respond to criticism.
People are yelp are generally power-hungry snobs. Also, people are crazy and customers will tell outright lies. I think it's fine to let businesses voice decisions. A coffee shop in town gets a lot of flack for using styrofoam cups, but they recycle the cups are have a bin for customers to do the same.
Yelp is f**king useless. Every restaurant I like has s**t reviews and every restaurant yelp users love is overpriced and s**tty. Even the stores they review are stupid as hell. This one knick knack shop in the trendy part of town got rave reviews, so I went there and they sold cd wallets made by people in africa. who the hell needs that?
Closed AccountApr 10, 2009
How is letting business owners defend themselves going to erode freedom? Nothing is being taken away here -- the very essence of freedom of speech is letting all sides have a voice.This seems really fair, and will provide a great opportunity for business to show people what they're really made of. You can tell a ton about people and the business they run by the way they respond to criticism.
Closed AccountApr 10, 2009
Time Warer on Yelp: 5GB / month should be plenty of bandwidth for all dialu errrr dsl users..
metriculaApr 11, 2009
People are yelp are generally power-hungry snobs. Also, people are crazy and customers will tell outright lies. I think it's fine to let businesses voice decisions. A coffee shop in town gets a lot of flack for using styrofoam cups, but they recycle the cups are have a bin for customers to do the same.
moothemagiccowApr 11, 2009
Yelp is f**king useless. Every restaurant I like has s**t reviews and every restaurant yelp users love is overpriced and s**tty. Even the stores they review are stupid as hell. This one knick knack shop in the trendy part of town got rave reviews, so I went there and they sold cd wallets made by people in africa. who the hell needs that?
gnaihcApr 11, 2009
Ok, since everyone here hates Yelp!. Any better alternate sites?
btimeApr 11, 2009
Yelp has an awful review process. I hate that place