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<leanstotheleft@democrat.com> wrote in message 
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On Tuesday, May 28, 2013 2:22:54 AM UTC-7, David Kaye wrote:
> <leanstotheleft@democrat.com> wrote
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> > One of my doctors has the ONE bad review. It was from a crank that found
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> > relief from a chiropractor. DOH! If you only have one bad review, just
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> > chill.
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> > Anyone using these online services expects a few wankers.
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> You don't understand; people don't work that way.  12 great reviews are
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> hidden, 3 great reviews are visible, and 1 bad review is visible.  Because
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> Yelp's star rating counts only the visible ratings, I get 4 stars instead 
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> 5 stars.  I've had absolutely no new customers via the web in 6 weeks.  I
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> used to get 10 to 15 a month before those results were "filtered".
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> Yesterday I was talking with a guy who teaches salsa dancing.  He used to
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> get all his business via the web.  He had about 30 positive reviews and 1
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> nasty woman, who complained that he was closed on Christmas!  That bad
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> review made it to postion #1, most of his other reviews got "hidden", and
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> now he has absolutely no new students.  He's looking for work now.  Used 
> to
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> be he supported himself on his teaching.
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> Yelp is a local company and most of the businesses listed on it appear to 
> be
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> local.  But I haven't seen any coverage of Yelp locally.  Leave it to the
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> Washington Post to do something the Chronicle, KPIX, KRON, and KGO-TV 
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> be doing.

Trust me, everyone will filter out the review about not being open on 
Christmas! ;-)

I really don't think I'm all that unique in assuming there is always one 
crank posting reviews that should be ignored. I've heard on usenet there is 
usually some crank that likes to post nasty stuff just to be a major league 
asshole, er not that I have anyone particular in mind. ;-)

Now if all the posts said you are the anti-Christ, then maybe you have a 
problem. One crank...nah.