people that YELP are scumbags

._.

Is it worse to get badly rated or not rated at all?

P sure a big part of the business model there is the hope that people who get hit by a "bad" review will sign up all their friends to write "good" reviews. Creating anxiety is exactly what they want.

Half the male ratings are gonna be "has a really small dick", so yea.

A bubbly, no-holds-barred “trendy lady” with a marketing degree and two recruiting companies, Cordray sees no reason you wouldn’t want to “showcase your character” online.

trendy lady

The insidious thing about this is that you have to join the site to enjoy the inevitable schadenfreude-packed reviews that will be following the founders around until they pull the plug.

join peeple or: go hang with suburban soccer moms for the same basic thing

peepeeple more like

Oh boy

http://www.newsweek.com/yelp-humans-378561

"There's a lot of misunderstandings of the way the app actually works," Cordray says. "We have more integrity features and more accountability features built in than many online ratings systems today. I can appreciate, when people found out the world was actually round and not flat, and that we revolved around the sun instead of the sun revolving around us, there was tons of fear and uproar. We need to keep in mind that with any new concept and any new idea, there's always going to be some fear and some concern."

I was going to make a joke about starting a "rate my elbow" site but thought for a second, googled, and well... https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20101218072440AApC6JG

"I can appreciate, when people found out the world was actually round and not flat, and that we revolved around the sun instead of the sun revolving around us, there was tons of fear and uproar. We need to keep in mind that with any new concept and any new idea, there's always going to be some fear and some concern."

fuck you and your evil app to the end of time

What pretty oracles nature yields us on this text, in the face and behaviour of children, babes, and even brutes! That divided and rebel mind, that distrust of a sentiment because our arithmetic has computed the strength and means opposed to our purpose, these have not. Their mind being whole, their eye is as yet unconquered, and when we look in their faces, we are disconcerted. Infancy conforms to nobody: all conform to it, so that one babe commonly makes four or five out of the adults who prattle and play to it. So God has armed youth and puberty and manhood no less with its own piquancy and charm, and made it enviable and gracious and its claims not to be put by, if it will stand by itself. Do not think the youth has no force, because he cannot speak to you and me. Hark! in the next room his voice is sufficiently clear and emphatic. It seems he knows how to speak to his contemporaries. Bashful or bold, then, he will know how to make us seniors very unnecessary.

The nonchalance of boys who are sure of a dinner, and would disdain as much as a lord to do or say aught to conciliate one, is the healthy attitude of human nature. A boy is in the parlour what the pit is in the playhouse; independent, irresponsible, looking out from his corner on such people and facts as pass by, he tries and sentences them on their merits, in the swift, summary way of boys, as good, bad, interesting, silly, eloquent, troublesome. He cumbers himself never about consequences, about interests: he gives an independent, genuine verdict. You must court him: he does not court you. But the man is, as it were, clapped into jail by his consciousness. As soon as he has once acted or spoken with eclat, he is a committed person, watched by the sympathy or the hatred of hundreds, whose affections must now enter into his account. There is no Lethe for this. Ah, that he could pass again into his neutrality! Who can thus avoid all pledges, and having observed, observe again from the same unaffected, unbiased, unbribable, unaffrighted innocence, must always be formidable. He would utter opinions on all passing affairs, which being seen to be not private, but necessary, would sink like darts into the ear of men, and put them in fear.

These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world. Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. Society is a joint-stock company, in which the members agree, for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.

thought that was a yelp review for a second, like stfu with yr eloquent flourishes and tell me whether the tacos are any good

the tacos were godhead itself

(that quote from cordray is amazing)

copernican revolution in social media

You didn’t know that people are genuinely good

That quote is mind-boggling.

they are bad people doing bad things and they should feel bad

cameras ready, prepare to flash

incidentally, there is NOTHING new about putting together a list of snarky comments about people and sharing it semi anonymously among everyone they know, that is basically a slam book

^^^ clearly a fearful flat-earther, here

first they came for the freshman and i said nothing

(since when did newsweek have a paywall and since when did i visit newsweek five times this month? and isn't it october 1? fuck you newsweek)

first they came for the freshman and i said nothing

― Meta Forksclove-Liebeskind (forksclovetofu), Thursday, October 1, 2015 2:22 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ehhh, you can't be held responsible

my homeroom teacher disagreed iirc

i don't mean to be a person that brings up the tv show community in places where it's not the designated topic of discussion but there's a community episode about this

i feel like maybe this is how humanity ends?

not with a bang but

like the machines take over while we are busy 24/7 managing our peeple profiles

I miss the old internet, before hordes of assholes of every stripe decided to get on it and make it into a big old asshole town for assholes to asshole around in

why i remember when it was just nothing but goatse.cx as far as the asshole could be

That thing is fucking dystopian. Julia Cordray should be in jail. I don't know for what exactly, but I want her to be jailed.

on the other hand, it could all be bullshit
http://m.snopes.com/2015/10/01/peeple/

omg what if this is the season premiere of nathan for you

excited for the reality show u_u

Every reply comment she has made is clearly trolling

omg what if this is the season premiere of nathan for you

― Meta Forksclove-Liebeskind (forksclovetofu), Friday, October 2, 2015 11:35 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol this could be ittt

http://joc.sagepub.com/content/early/2015/10/13/1469540515611203.abstract

Social media users who post restaurant reviews on the website Yelp.com act as both prosumers or produsers and “discursive investors” in gentrification. Their unpaid online reviews create cultural and financial value for individual restaurants and also construct a positive or negative image of their locations that may lead to economic investment. Moreover, Yelp reviewers show marked preferences in terms of race. Examining 7046 Yelp reviews of restaurants in a predominantly White-gentrifying and a predominantly Black-gentrifying neighborhood of Brooklyn, NY, shows far more reviewers draw attention to the urban locale when the majority of residents are Black. A framing analysis of 1056 reviews that mention the neighborhood indicates that most Yelp reviewers feel positive about the White neighborhood, where they consider the traditional Polish restaurants “authentic” and “cozy,” while they feel negative about the Black neighborhood, which they criticize for a dearth of dining options and an atmosphere of dirt and danger. This language represents “discursive redlining” in the digital public realm, with Yelp reviewers contributing to taste-driven processes of gentrification and racial change.

Damn. Nice stuff.

I really want to read this but $30.00 is a but expensive.

go to the library

Those are fancy words but I'm guessing Yelp reviews have about zero impact on gentrification and merely reflect existing prejudices.

don't spread it around too much

https://www.dropbox.com/s/adcsvx9adll9out/Journal%20of%20Consumer%20Culture-2015-Zukin-1469540515611203.pdf?dl=0

http://www.eater.com/2015/11/12/9723896/yelp-reviews-race-gentrification-brooklyn-study

this commercial made me think of this thread

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAXPY2dBq9I

Ugh cant believe he sold out

Why is he wearing so much makeup

fwiw it's a supercut of several longer ads, still pretty embarrassing but Sinclair is the best part of each

― gr8080, Thursday, September 17, 2015 6:33 AM (4 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

https://medium.com/@taliajane/an-open-letter-to-my-ceo-fb73df021e7a#.zhg8q53sh

Fuuuuuck.