Plus: Amazon announced last week that two fake review brokers were arrested.

Yelp has started publicly naming and shaming businesses that pay for reviews. The review site’s new index documents businesses offering everything from a crisp $100 bill for leaving the best review to a $400 Home Depot gift card for a five-star review. It also lists every business whose reviews have ever been suspected of suspicious activity, like spamming the site with multiple reviews from a single IP address.

    • @thefartographer@lemm.ee
      30•1 year ago

      ⭐️ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
      Dick_Justice is an asshole

      We realize negative comments can disproportionately affect newer Lemmy users like you. For a small fee and a big apology, we’d be happy to make sure these most-likely unjust reviews do not impact your overall rating. We’d sure hate for this one-star review to accidentally end up as the top review for such a nice user as yourself.