A U.S. court has found that users who posted anonymous negative reviews of a carpet cleaning business should be identified.
The users posted negative reviews about Hadeed Carpet Cleaning - owned by complainant Joe Hadeed - to the Yelp service, which enables consumers to post reviews of local businesses and counts 47 million reviews over the past decade.
Mr Hadeed argues that seven ... [ read the full article ]
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I'm all for anonymity but I think in this case they should wave it to an extent. I don't think they should be outed to Hadeed until they have had the opportunity to provide prove they actually used the service. Otherwise I'd out them and would love to see them sued at the least.
and did mr hadeen know who this reviewers were through legal or illegal ways.
lets make all people that do a bad review details public,lets send business owners (or paid thugs ) to attack them.let remove all the negative feedback.
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I think if you're gonna leave bad reviews you should have to prove to someone you actually bought the service or item. Heck maybe positive too....OR why not have the review sites have a big disclaimer that no review good or bad has been verified. Anybody going to these review sites should take them with a very big grain of salt.
Originally posted by dEwMe: I think if you're gonna leave bad reviews you should have to prove to someone you actually bought the service or item. Heck maybe positive too....OR why not have the review sites have a big disclaimer that no review good or bad has been verified. Anybody going to these review sites should take them with a very big grain of salt.
Exactly this. All reviews whether from an anonymous person on the internet or a professional with an arms list of degrees and certification should be looked at and decided upon based on your own opinions. There are many "experts" that I wouldn't trust to make impartial decisions, at least anonymous reviewers have less incentive to write reviews for profit. Forcing yelp to give over these names is just another example of our rights being taken without a second thought.
Yelp was developed solely for the purpose of blackmailing business owners. Here is how those edited by ddp operate: They are the ones who actually write the bad review, then they call the business and explain that someone has written a bad review but they will be happy to remove it for a fee. The group of employees they hired to write this edited by ddp are called super users. They hired about 80,000 super users in 2006, taking their registered user users from 12,000 people to 100,000 immediately. Yelp is just a big online mafia using strong arm techniques to steal money from small businesses.
Originally posted by seths: Yelp was developed solely for the purpose of blackmailing business owners. Here is how those edited by ddp operate: They are the ones who actually write the bad review, then they call the business and explain that someone has written a bad review but they will be happy to remove it for a fee. The group of employees they hired to write this edited by ddp are called super users. They hired about 80,000 super users in 2006, taking their registered user users from 12,000 people to 100,000 immediately. Yelp is just a big online mafia using strong arm techniques to steal money from small businesses.
In closing, edited by ddp Yelp
So what you are saying is that you have been blackmailed by yelp?
Originally posted by seths: Yelp was developed solely for the purpose of blackmailing business owners. Here is how those edited by ddp operate: They are the ones who actually write the bad review, then they call the business and explain that someone has written a bad review but they will be happy to remove it for a fee. The group of employees they hired to write this edited by ddp are called super users. They hired about 80,000 super users in 2006, taking their registered user users from 12,000 people to 100,000 immediately. Yelp is just a big online mafia using strong arm techniques to steal money from small businesses.
In closing, edited by ddp Yelp
So what you are saying is that you have been blackmailed by yelp?
Well they aren't completely wrong about yelp. Yelp does allow businesses to pay for the removal of bad reviews. I doubt yelp actually needs to write the bad reviews (fake or real) themselves but if they did I believe it would qualify as extortion and have some serious legal ramifications.
