people that YELP are scumbags

this place is a magnet:

I think my review for this place is a little on the generous side. Sure, they sat my buddy and me rather quickly. But they stuck us into this tiny, offshoot, storage type room with a couple tables set up in it. Seriously? We felt so cut off from the restaurant and the world! And I swear, there's some slight racism going on because all the people sitting in that tiny room were the ones who definitely don't look Korean. Fail. Anyway...

I had lunch there today, and checked the Yelp link my coworker sent afterwards. Was going to make a "I love Young Dong" joke to them but figured most wouldn't get it, and explaining would only make it worse.

X-post. They did refill our tea, and took away a few of the empty dishes. And who wants the rice scooped out? - they serve it in a hot stone bowl so it stays warm.

i asked manfriend: which would you prefer, bad service with good food, or vice versa? he said (after some thought): bad service + good food. well good. cuz that's exactly what we got at YD last night. taste has improved. the ban chan was tasty, as was the kalbi, and soon tofu. i even got a free sprite for checking in!

this rice scooping out controversy is really heating up

young dong, now with free sprite

I keep looking at "mushroooom" and thinking "A SNAAAAAAAAAAKE, SNAAAAAAAKE, SNAAAAAAAAKE"

2.0 star rating
3/5/2012 1 Check-in Here

Not as good as the other dongs in Arcadia and Diamond Bar.

good to know

wait that's a review of a chinese restaurant in madison! the one posted above! and i've been there!

do they scoop the rice

i feel like i'm not in on some joke here.

i even got a free sprite for checking in!

Like what kind of person gets this excited about getting a free small soda that they feel compelled to mention it in a review?

see thread title

would scoop rice at young dong

I swear some of these ppl expect to be hand-fed like babbies when they go out to eat from what they complain about.

wait that's a review of a chinese restaurant in madison! the one posted above! and i've been there!

probably the best chinese restaurant in madison right now, no less!

i think it's hilarious that despite every evidence that she is at a chinese restaurant, the reviewer persists in believing she is at a japanese restaurant and rates accordingly.

totally. it's almost a work of art.

somewhere an Australian is yelping furiously from an Outback Steakhouse

especially great to order Sichuan beef and keep complaining that the place isn't Japanese!

Said reviewer has given 3 negative reviews to Japanese places and no positive ones, and two 5* reviews to Chinese places and no other negatives. If this place didn't have a Japanese name they'd probably have got a great review.

(What is not Japanese about chopsticks? We don't have many Japanese restaurants here but they all have chopsticks - admittedly usually the wooden pull-apart chopsticks rather than the ones you get in Chinese restaurants, so maybe that's what the reviewer was complaining about, who knows)

i think it's hilarious that despite every evidence that she is at a chinese restaurant, the reviewer persists in believing she is at a japanese restaurant and rates accordingly.

Right, like it's two-thirds of the way through the meal and she's leaning over to her husband saying "Something's just not right here -- I'm starting to suspect that this place isn't actually Japanese!"

Wow, her other reviews are a goldmine!

"I didnt care for the sushi at all, didnt taste fresh to me. I also tried I think it was teriyaki steak,anyways,I had to stop eatting in the middle of it was making feel sick to my stomache. It looked like it could be a nice place for a date,I guess"

Apparently when I was single my idea of a "date restaurant" was totally wrong.

chinese restaurant with a japanese name seems like a detail from a michael chabon novel

thing is, were Yelp reviews always so awful? b/c i remember looking at the site a couple of years or so before this thread was started, and iirc the reviews were fairly informative and generally not too harsh unless there was something truly egregious about the service at a place or whatever

but looking at reviews lately, it seems like the bulk of them are unbelievably complainy and petty and only helpful or informative insofar as they let you know that the reviewer would be a terrible person to eat dinner with or to have to wait on

someone should start yelp reviews reviews and all the reviews should be 'this person would be horrible to dine with'

Mine would be "Her name made me think she was Chinese but after we had dinner together I realized she totally wasn't, what a scam"

i've been meaning to suggest same for a while! yelper.com

or maybe whine.com

or just a tumblr of good'uns. that seems to do the trick these days.

The thing is, the site does perform a public service, in that if you meet somebody and find out they use yelp, you can find out within like a minute or so if they have sane and useful opinions or are a horrible pain in the ass. Presumably you could also find this out by talking to them, but smartphones are so much faster anymore.

your use of "anymore" fascinates me

Google "positive anymore", marvel at its alien weirdness

yeah, i started noticing that usage a few years back and it really threw me for a loop

i'm thinking i'm on the verge of starting to use it tho

steven soderbergh's rolodex must be really fucking out there

whoops rong thread

haha, i'm not sure where i picked it up cause it's something that used to bug me too! Is it a Midwestern thing? It's definitely not like hip new slang, it's an old-school regular-workin-people thing.

it doesn't make any sense!

i think it makes a certain amount of sense. divorces "anymore" from the mechanics of its original construction in order to apply its function to other contexts.

Anymore, you take sense where you can find it.

I live in the Midwest and have never heard this

http://microsyntax.sites.yale.edu/positive-anymore

Hey, cool, it has a name! Good to know.

http://www.yelp.com/user_details?userid=txCfYYYzxoIbMTfpz2Tn_w

this guy

that dude is REALLY unhappy in life

omg this guy

Yelp

Categories: Local Flavor, Mass Media
Neighborhood: SOMA
1.0 star rating
9/26/2011

Aah Yelp. You have lost your way. Alas, so has the country so why should you be any different? What I thought Yelp was or is, and what Yelp believes it is are two entirely different entities. To me, Yelp was an online community of people who would venture out to restaurants, bars any business really, and evaluate them fairly and honestly for others to read. No one makes one read my review, and certainly no one has to take what I saw as the truth. To one person, I may be funny and dead on, to the next person, I am just a mean a-hole. It doesn't matter, its just my opinion.

The point is, if I am reviewing something, someplace or someone, and I tell you how awful they were, it is because they were. What that business now does is whine to Yelp. They either create a fake profile, or someone who works for them has a profile, or someone contacts Yelp and cries. The business should be ashamed of themselves. Instead of offering up good service, they cry about a review someone writes. It is my opinion Yelp. You don't have to like it, the business doesn't have to like it, but it is my opinion. Do you think by deleting it from Yelp I change my mind about the establishment. No. I am more determined to tell people how bad the experience was.

I have had reviews removed about three or four times. I always get the same BS email from someone at Yelp who is such a coward, they write from an email address, that can't be replied to. The most recent occasion occurred today.

Someone decided that my review of Rufus DuMonde Dog grooming in Madison, Wisconsin was not to their liking, so they contacted Yelp and Yelp, being a shill for business, removed it. Why? The place is horrible. If you remove my review does that change the quality of their service? Why is Rufus DuMonde such a coward that they don't contact me? It would be far better for them to contact me and offer another opportunity to show me I am wrong. Instead, they whine to Yelp. You can cover up shit in a patina, but the shit is still there, and it still stinks. It doesn't matter how many businesses make Yelp remove bad reviews. If the business or service is getting a bad review, having Yelp remove it, doesn't mean the service improved. On the contrary.

For every review you remove of mine, I will find a way to get the word out much louder. Rufus DuMonde, and all the other horrible establishments I have frequented, you can continue to hide behind the skirt of Yelp, but it won't help you.

"rufus dumonde dog grooming" in madison cannot POSSIBLY be real

(xp from unhappy guy above)

I walked into this dirt hole, holding my breath and tongue, and willing to order something in the hope that I could find some good Mexican food (good Mexican food is actually an oxymoron)

It would be far better for them to contact me and offer another opportunity to show me I am wrong. Instead, they whine to Yelp.

oh the irony

this dude is my new favorite person, it's just pages and pages of misdirected bitching

http://www.rufusdumonde.com/

by the way.

nice FAKE website