Is It Yelp's Job To Protect Businesses From Their Unethical Users?

That these 'Yelp girls' felt the need to try and shortchange an independent business (whose already-high rating on Yelp would probably not be affected too much by a singular spiteful review) is disappointing. But we cannot leave them out in the cold, tempted by the ravenous cult of entitlement. They've obviously been influenced by Wall Street's display of self-interest and lack of ethics -- their demand was a cry for help, on the anniversary of the Lehman's bankruptcy, no less!

Yelp is a stew of douchebaggery. I remember a few years ago going to a Yelp xmas party with the "yelp elite" and not ONE of those f*ckers tipped the bartenders they were getting free premium pours from, free sushi, free food and so on.

My colleague and I however, happily tipped our bartenders, grateful for gin and tonics made with premium gin for a couple of bucks. by the end, we were swimming in free stuff while our yelp pals were wondering why the two goofy white guys were getting served.

Sucks to be a Yelp Douche!

Yelp is evil. And HS is heavenly, I should write up a yelp review right now. I was more upset at the Chron's Phil Bronstein's jab at their prosciutto ice cream. Totally unwarranted.

As with anything you read on the Internet, you need to turn on the 'troll' filter. The Internet has given every hack out there a voice and an opinion, plus everybody has different tastes. If I see 5 good yelps and 5 bad yelps for the same place, that will tell me that I still have to go there to find out for myself, so a bad yelp doesn't necessarily mean anything to me. I have been to many restaurants that have been roundly thrashed by the critics and found them to be excellent, and I don't think I've agreed with a movie critic in my life...so I don't put too much stock in the every day amateur and what they think, precisely because of scenarios like this.