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  2. Yelp has a wall of shame for businesses caught paying for ...

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    The FTC recently proposed a formal ban on fake reviews with penalties of up to $50,000 for businesses caught buying, selling or manipulating online reviews. Yelp has said it supports such a rule ...

  3. Uber is cracking down on users who give bad ratings just to ...

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    The company says it has established new systems to pinpoint users who make complaints solely in an effort to get a refund or other appeasement. Uber says any allegations that these flagged users ...

  4. Yelp: the FTC won't penalize us for review complaints - Engadget

    www.engadget.com/2015-01-07-ftc-drops-yelp...

    In addition to surviving FTC investigations without getting any penalty, Yelp has also escaped a lawsuit (listing similar complaints against its practices) unscathed in late 2014. Yelp maintains ...

  5. Ripoff Report - Wikipedia

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    Ripoff Report is a private for-profit website founded by Ed Magedson. [1] The Ripoff Report has been online since December 1998 and is operated by Xcentric Ventures, LLC which is based in Tempe, Arizona. [2] In 2023 an Australian judge found the company purports to be a consumer review site but profits from extortive business practices. [3]

  6. List of films condemned by the Legion of Decency - Wikipedia

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    NCOMP reassigned ratings to old films based on its new system, making it impossible to determine from their own database whether a film it now classifies O was originally B or C. [1] In 1980, NCOMP ceased operations, along with the biweekly Review, which by then had published ratings for 16,251 feature films.

  7. Review bomb - Wikipedia

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    Review bomb. A review bomb is an Internet phenomenon in which a large number of people or a few people with multiple accounts [1] post negative user reviews online in an attempt to harm the sales or popularity of a product, a service, or a business. [2] While a large number of negative reviews may simply be the result of a large number of ...

  8. My other life as a Kickstarter scammer - Engadget

    www.engadget.com/2019-01-31-my-other-life-as-a...

    He originally began plugging a Felix Benson as the magic-worker, but in the most recent example, it's Brett Pearson. The service they offer changes, too. Sometimes it's the promise of better ...

  9. Complaints Against Yelp's "Extortion" Practices Grow Louder

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    Two weeks ago, the company got slapped by a lawsuit from from the D’ames Day Spa of San Diego County, accusing Yelp of removing many positive reviews because the spa declined to run ads on the site.