the good luck bar sucks too
― omar little, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 20:35 (fifteen years ago) link
I chak missi :-(
― StanM, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 20:46 (fifteen years ago) link
What happened to chaki? Did he get banned?
― Alex in SF, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 21:21 (fifteen years ago) link
he left angrily
― StanM, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 21:24 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh. So he'll be back then.
― Alex in SF, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 21:25 (fifteen years ago) link
he's still in our hearts
― carne asada, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 21:26 (fifteen years ago) link
I had a vision of another post there, but no it's gone.
― Alex in SF, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 21:29 (fifteen years ago) link
wow! it is
― carne asada, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 21:30 (fifteen years ago) link
temp banning myself from "missing chaki" conversations
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 21:31 (fifteen years ago) link
i have used yelp to pick things from a menu before \(°_o)/
― gbx, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 21:39 (fifteen years ago) link
btw chicagoans hit up lao sze chuan asap if you haven't already
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― omar little, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 21:40 (fifteen years ago) link
i like dragon court as far as chinatown restaurants go
― deej, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 21:44 (fifteen years ago) link
i don't make it down there enough
― gbx, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 21:46 (fifteen years ago) link
Forget it, gbx, it's Chinatown.
― Michael White, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 22:13 (fifteen years ago) link
I dont know how many scoops the large had but i wana large.
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 25 June 2008 22:17 (fifteen years ago) link
Hi Jon,
I'm writing to let you know about our decision to remove your review of CBGB Shop. Your review was flagged by the Yelp community, and our Customer Service team has determined that it falls outside our review guidelines: http://www.yelp.com/faq#great_review, specifically relevance to the listed business.
We review every situation with detail and care and take the removal of reviews very seriously.
Regards, Edgar Yelp User Support San Francisco, California
Removed Review: I LOVE HOT TOPIC!!! i'm from the UK, and we don't have them over here, i went into a couple in the states, and could have spent a FORTUNE!! teehee....but then i am huge kermit the frog fan, and they have all sorts in there! YEY!! Its nice that they put one right by the food court! anyway...i just thought i'd share that with you!
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― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Thursday, 31 July 2008 00:07 (fifteen years ago) link
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― Curt1s Stephens, Thursday, 31 July 2008 00:12 (fifteen years ago) link
maybe it wasn't really hot topic ;]
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 31 July 2008 00:59 (fifteen years ago) link
Also I def think you can meet girls/cougars on yelp-- Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Tuesday, March 18, 2008 10:28 AM (4 months ago) Bookmark Link
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A friend of mine has been in a 1.5-year relationship with a yelper 15 years older than him. So, true.
― libcrypt, Thursday, 31 July 2008 01:48 (fifteen years ago) link
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v212/etienne_saint/rotdbullshit.jpg
― omar little, Thursday, 11 September 2008 23:17 (fifteen years ago) link
i guess you'll have to open the pic in another window to see why this review sucks
― omar little, Thursday, 11 September 2008 23:18 (fifteen years ago) link
Photo of Chao W.
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Chao W.
Jersey City, NJ2 star rating1/2/2009
If you are Asian you will like this place. You will find that its like a 80 percent asian crowd. Its beautiful but the wait to get in is terrible EVEN FOR PROMOTERS i am use to skipping the line and MODELS SKIPPING the LINE but here none of that shit lol, i have had one night 27 models come out in which we had a table with bottles even amongst Grey Goose every single female wanted to ditch Hiro and go to Tenjune so that speaks volumes and that was my last night there. Drinks are watered down if you are a comp which means a free admission (you know if a promoter told you U will be in free) then once you get to the door and they try to give you a reduced ticket stand up for yourself and say " hold on I dont pay for clubs, I party at every club for free" I am sure they will throw you a ticket after that lol and ummmmm the security is terrible and GHETTO But beautiful place
― ian, Thursday, 8 January 2009 05:41 (fifteen years ago) link
Natalie T.
Bronx, NY2 star rating12/2/2008
Okay, Last Saturday was my first (and last) night at Hiro. Let's take it from the top. Me and 4 of my girls went to Hiro around 1am and there wasn't much of a line. Either way, we were getting a bottle, so we didn't have to wait. They ushered us to a table right away. Sounds good so far, right?
To start off, the music sucked. The DJ played great songs, but didn't play more than a verse or he would scratch all over it. I find it hard to enjoy a party where you go from Beyonce to Maroon 5 to Kanye West to friggin Taylor Swift in less than two minutes.
The crowd was blah. Mostly the bridge and tunnel folk (no offense) or the real villagey type (again, no offense). I was ready to go halfway through the bottle and won't be back.
― ian, Thursday, 8 January 2009 05:44 (fifteen years ago) link
Yelp is still the best place to meet cougars.
― Mr. Goodman
― velko, Thursday, 8 January 2009 05:45 (fifteen years ago) link
Bottle service club people are like space aliens to me.
― TOMBOT, Thursday, 8 January 2009 05:48 (fifteen years ago) link
natural history museum exhibits.
― ian, Thursday, 8 January 2009 05:54 (fifteen years ago) link
haha, i played there once. crazy expensive, we had to wait around awhile before our set and left to get beer at a bodega.
xp
― Tracy Michael Jordan Catalano (Jordan), Thursday, 8 January 2009 05:54 (fifteen years ago) link
this thread title bothers me btw
should be people WHO yelp etc
― ian, Thursday, 8 January 2009 05:57 (fifteen years ago) link
this dude i was friends with in high school posted this page-long rant on facebook yesterday about how he's been passed over for YELP ELITE three years in a row. the rant detailed all the work he's done on yelp and all the reviews he's written and then he listed about all the stuff he's done to make his blog post come up high in google searches in hopes that yelp will find it and reconsider adding him to YELP ELITE ... wtf :(
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 8 January 2009 13:05 (fifteen years ago) link
can you still smoke in Hiro? that's all i want Yelp to tell me
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 8 January 2009 13:22 (fifteen years ago) link
I read some of the review of my favorite stores, and boy, some people really want their hands held when they go shopping.
― tokyo rosemary, Thursday, 8 January 2009 14:35 (fifteen years ago) link
some yelper is getting sued in san francisco
― 8====D ------ ㋡ (max), Thursday, 8 January 2009 14:49 (fifteen years ago) link
link please.hope it's not shasta.
― ian, Thursday, 8 January 2009 15:43 (fifteen years ago) link
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10133466-38.html
― 8====D ------ ㋡ (max), Thursday, 8 January 2009 15:58 (fifteen years ago) link
Is it really shocking to people that when you open up the world for review you're gonna find lots of assholes willing to yell about their awful unsatisfying lives as viewed through the prism of discrete consumer experiences?
― FUTURE HOOS: stronger better faster hooser (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 8 January 2009 16:12 (fifteen years ago) link
lawsuits are threatened all the time. basically freedom of speech vs. defamation. every suit that i've heard of got thrown out.
― (*゚ー゚)θ L(。・_・) °~ヾ(・ε・ *) (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 8 January 2009 16:25 (fifteen years ago) link
background: 2 buds of mine started this site about 5 years ago.
Norberg vs Nordskog.
― Alex in SF, Thursday, 8 January 2009 16:48 (fifteen years ago) link
background: I hate chiropractors right now.
― Alex in SF, Thursday, 8 January 2009 16:51 (fifteen years ago) link
tbh i use menupages.com
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 8 January 2009 17:02 (fifteen years ago) link
Yelp and the Business of Extortion 2.0
Local business owners say Yelp offers to hide negative customer reviews of their businesses on its web site ... for a price.By Kathleen RichardsFebruary 18, 2009The phone calls came almost daily. It started to get creepy."Hi, this is Mike from Yelp," the voice would say. "You've had three hundred visitors to your site this month. You've had a really good response. But you have a few bad ones at the top. I could do something about those."This wasn't your average sales pitch. At least, not the kind that John, an East Bay restaurateur, was used to. He was familiar with Yelp.com, the popular San Francisco-based web site in which any person can write a review about nearly any business. John's restaurant has more than one hundred reviews, and averages a healthy 3.5-star rating. But when John asked Mike what he could do about his bad reviews, he recalls the sales rep responding: "We can move them. Well, for $299 a month." John couldn't believe what the guy was offering. It seemed wrong.In fact, something seemed shady about the state of his restaurant's negative reviews. "When you do get a call from Yelp, and you go to the site, it looks like they have been moved," John said. "You don't know if they happen to be at the top legitimately or if the rep moved them to the top. You don't even know if this is someone who legitimately doesn't like your restaurant. ... Almost all the time when they call you, the bad ones will be at the top."
The phone calls came almost daily. It started to get creepy.
"Hi, this is Mike from Yelp," the voice would say. "You've had three hundred visitors to your site this month. You've had a really good response. But you have a few bad ones at the top. I could do something about those."
This wasn't your average sales pitch. At least, not the kind that John, an East Bay restaurateur, was used to. He was familiar with Yelp.com, the popular San Francisco-based web site in which any person can write a review about nearly any business. John's restaurant has more than one hundred reviews, and averages a healthy 3.5-star rating. But when John asked Mike what he could do about his bad reviews, he recalls the sales rep responding: "We can move them. Well, for $299 a month." John couldn't believe what the guy was offering. It seemed wrong.
In fact, something seemed shady about the state of his restaurant's negative reviews. "When you do get a call from Yelp, and you go to the site, it looks like they have been moved," John said. "You don't know if they happen to be at the top legitimately or if the rep moved them to the top. You don't even know if this is someone who legitimately doesn't like your restaurant. ... Almost all the time when they call you, the bad ones will be at the top."
― Chris Barrus (Elvis Telecom), Thursday, 19 February 2009 00:55 (fifteen years ago) link
That article is in the East Bay Express.
― Alex in SF, Thursday, 19 February 2009 01:24 (fifteen years ago) link
Are they commies or have some agenda? Seriously, I don't know if that matters.
On the other hand, Yelp is consistently lame - don't need a newspaper to tell me that.
― Chris Barrus (Elvis Telecom), Thursday, 19 February 2009 01:33 (fifteen years ago) link
the yelp scene is mad creepy and "entitled"
― memo from norv turner (omar little), Thursday, 19 February 2009 01:38 (fifteen years ago) link
Wow, that's truly creepy and morally reprehensible on the part of Yelp. There's definitely reasonable grounds to assume Yelp creates bad reviews on its own, since it seems to think hiding bad reviews is a very profitable thing to do.
It'll be interesting to see where this goes.
― burt_stanton, Thursday, 19 February 2009 01:43 (fifteen years ago) link
"Are they commies or have some agenda?"
Nah just the usual New Voice Media bullshit.
― Alex in SF, Thursday, 19 February 2009 02:13 (fifteen years ago) link
Some more articles going backwards a bit...http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2008/11/is_yelp_extorting_san_fran_bus.phphttp://sf.eater.com/archives/2008/09/19/yelp_wanted_9.php
― Chris Barrus (Elvis Telecom), Thursday, 19 February 2009 02:15 (fifteen years ago) link
there was a news story on this featured on fox 11 in l.a. last tuesday night, i think?
― memo from norv turner (omar little), Thursday, 19 February 2009 02:16 (fifteen years ago) link
And more...http://la.eater.com/archives/2008/08/19/yelp_wanted_dinos_pizza_victim.phphttp://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-lazarus11-2009feb11,0,7767842,full.columnhttp://cbs5.com/wrapper_consumer/seenon/yelp.business.complaints.2.820867.htmlhttp://cbs5.com/wrapper_consumer/seenon/Yelp.Internet.ratings.2.787400.html
― Chris Barrus (Elvis Telecom), Thursday, 19 February 2009 02:17 (fifteen years ago) link