Yelp

[DirtMcGirk]

I've come to conclude that Yelp was made for people like me: self-entitled pricks who think their opinions are so enlightened that everyone with a smart phone or a lap top should be so lucky as to be able to read my prose.

Though the last review I got to write was pretty awesome. I got talk about how I was riding a **** covered race horse through the gates of gastrointestinal Hell. That was fun.

I was reading somewhere that small business owners really hate Yelp. I think I might be why.
I am all excited over this though: Yelp reviewer attacked by book store owner for calling it a total mess.

Yelp will be the first key to the apocalypse, of this I am sure.

[drkenan]

A Yelp review was what got me fired from the dentist and subsequently gave me this awesome custom title. Unfortunately it seems that Yelp deleted my review but Google didn't.

God I miss his loving dental touch...

[DirtMcGirk]

Wait, what? Explain the whole story.

[drkenan]

Wait, what? Explain the whole story.

I wish I could just un-delete the original thread from a few years back. Very short version: I leave a negative review for the dentist, receive a letter in the mail 2 weeks later with my review printed out and a bunch of hand-written notes on it along with a letter telling me to seek the services of another dentist. RM goes on the attack and hilarity ensues. I had the thread deleted because I was afraid of getting sued or something but that was probably silly.

[DirtMcGirk]

I had a vet's office threaten to sue me over a long review of their services. The guy tried calling my girlfriend to get me to take it down, making veiled threats and everything. I could never get him to return my calls though. She was on the phone with her friend the other night, talking about the collection of hate mail I get from business owners.

[Pesqueeb]

I wish I could just un-delete the original thread from a few years back. Very short version: I leave a negative review for the dentist, receive a letter in the mail 2 weeks later with my review printed out and a bunch of hand-written notes on it along with a letter telling me to seek the services of another dentist. RM goes on the attack and hilarity ensues. I had the thread deleted because I was afraid of getting sued or something but that was probably silly.

Potentially one of the best threads on teh . Not including "worst night of my life" of course.

I love Yelping places I have bad experiences at. I do throw in the occasional positive review of local places I like, but its just not as fulfilling as an old fashioned passive-agressive internet beat down.

[Silver]

Potentially one of the best threads on teh . Not including "worst night of my life" of course.

I love Yelping places I have bad experiences at. I do throw in the occasional positive review of local places I like, but its just not as fulfilling as an old fashioned passive-agressive internet beat down.

If it makes you feel any better*, you're just balancing out the astroturf positive reviews.

*It shouldn't.

[JohnE]

Not unlike reveiws on Amazon I bet...

[jonKranked]

Potentially one of the best threads on teh . Not including "worst night of my life" of course.

The worst night of my life thread ranks top 3 of the funniest things i've ever seen on the internet. And this includes all my browsing in days of yore on sites like fugly, something awful, albino black sheep, back in the mid to late 90's, when you could get away with pretty much anything on the internet.

[jonKranked]

also. yelp isn't really helpful when you're actually trying to find something/somewhere that you wanna try. because of people like dirt. NTTAWWT.

[bizutch]

Everytime I use google and see a link for a Yelp, I always have a tiny little smirk on my face over Kenan's dentist.

Didn't you have some other provider give you the boot too?

[OGRipper]

The only positive reviews I ever see on yelp are spammers linking a blog or something. Otherwise is just a bash-fest for people who like to hear themselves rant.

Dirt, have you considered using it as a dating site?

[I Are Baboon]

I've eaten at a bunch of great restaurants thanks to Yelp reviews. Generally speaking, it's easy to identify the morons who try too hard, whether it's a great review or a bad review.

[TheMontashu]

The last time I went to a restaurant because of yelp reviews, the issue wasn't the food (that was quite good) the issue was the woman who walked in after me. She was with 3 people, and made a big scene about sitting in a quite place in a 30 table restaurant that had 3 filled as it was like 3PM. Her and her party end up close to us, and holy hell will this woman not STFU. She seemed to think the entire restaurant needed to hear what "yelpers" thought was good on the menu. Some decent reviews, but it seems as the people who post them are more irritating in public than myself

[DirtMcGirk]

I've never gone somewhere because of Yelp reviews, but I have noticed that at least in Phoenix that the reviews are pretty spot on for the most part. Sometimes you get the strange folk who like to interject their politics here, which are usually pretty conservative. I've seen a lot of "dirty mexicans" when it comes to a mexican place, which makes me giggle just because its Arizona.