Leroy N. Soetoro
2015-07-31 20:02:07 UTC
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2015/07/28/a-vengeful-
internet-trashed-the-yelp-page-of-the-minnesota-dentist-who-shot-cecil-
the-lion/
There is no Yelp quite like revenge Yelp and revenge Yelp is out in full
force today. It has found the business page for Walter Palmer, the
Minnesota dentist who shot a beloved African lion, and bombarded it with
more than 1,500 one-star ratings.
[American dentist says he regrets killing Cecil the lion, but believed
hunt was legal]
Palmers other online accounts werent spared either, of course: The
Facebook page of River Bluff Dental, where Palmer works, also was flooded
with thousands of outraged comments. A dormant YouTube account is
plastered with all-caps insults and, more disconcertingly, Palmers
personal address. At some point this afternoon, someone also managed to
hijack River Bluffs Web site and link it out to a fake Twitter page,
where pranksters posted pictures of smiling lions and induced further
(in this case, misdirected) outrage.
In each of this instances, Palmer and River Bluff have ways to make the
drama go away: They can, for instance, close the YouTube account and
demand that Twitter take down @RiverBlufDental under the sites
impersonation policy. They have, as of this writing, deleted their
Facebook page.
But Yelp is a very special, controversial case. See, even if business
owners dont want their business to appear on the reviews site, theres
absolutely no way they can remove it. Yelp obtains its business data from
third-party services, which means owners never actually opt-in to the
site. And while Yelp does encourage businesses to claim their page,
which gives them some measure of control over its content and the ability
to reply to reviews, it never lets them go dark entirely.
Consumers have the right to talk about what they like and dont like,
Yelp explains in its FAQ section. We dont remove business listings, so
your best bet is to engage with your fans and critics alike and hear what
they have to say.
Problems arise, however, when the people doing the talking are not
actually customers say, when reviews are planted by competitors, or when
the business is involved in a public scandal like this one. Yelp-trashing
has actually become a sort of reflexive protest against certain
controversial events: Behold the fates of Amys Baking Co., Memories Pizza
and the clinic where Joan Rivers died.
Palmer, of course, is not a remotely sympathetic character, and its hard
to feel too sorry for his flagging reviews. But there are other people
working in that dentists office, and Yelp ratings tangibly affect their
livelihoods, too. (In a statement, Yelp said the false reviews violated
its content policies, and it appears that they are gradually being
removed.)
[Amys Baking Co. meltdown begs the question: Is Yelp bad for small
business?]
Meanwhile, Palmer has bigger problems: Zimbabwean police have said that
theyre looking into whether his hunt was criminal. Whatever they decide,
of course, hell already have been punished by the Internet tribunal.
--
Obama increased total debt from $10 trillion to $18 trillion in the six
years he has been in office, and sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood
queer liberal democrat donors.
Barack Obama, reelected by the dumbest voters in the history of the United
States of America. The only American president to deliberately import a
lethal infectious disease from Africa, Ebola.
Loretta Fuddy, killed after she "verified" Obama's phony birth
certificate.
Nancy Pelosi, Democrat criminal, accessory before and after the fact to
improper vetting of Barry Soetoro aka Barack Hussein Obama, a confirmed
felon using SSAN 042-68-4425, belonging to a dead man.
Obama ignored the brutal killing of an American diplomat in Benghazi, then
relieved American military officers who attempted to prevent said murder
in order to cover up his own ineptitude.
Obama continues his goal of disarming America while ObamaCare increases
insurance premiums 300% and leaves millions without health care.
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internet-trashed-the-yelp-page-of-the-minnesota-dentist-who-shot-cecil-
the-lion/
There is no Yelp quite like revenge Yelp and revenge Yelp is out in full
force today. It has found the business page for Walter Palmer, the
Minnesota dentist who shot a beloved African lion, and bombarded it with
more than 1,500 one-star ratings.
[American dentist says he regrets killing Cecil the lion, but believed
hunt was legal]
Palmers other online accounts werent spared either, of course: The
Facebook page of River Bluff Dental, where Palmer works, also was flooded
with thousands of outraged comments. A dormant YouTube account is
plastered with all-caps insults and, more disconcertingly, Palmers
personal address. At some point this afternoon, someone also managed to
hijack River Bluffs Web site and link it out to a fake Twitter page,
where pranksters posted pictures of smiling lions and induced further
(in this case, misdirected) outrage.
In each of this instances, Palmer and River Bluff have ways to make the
drama go away: They can, for instance, close the YouTube account and
demand that Twitter take down @RiverBlufDental under the sites
impersonation policy. They have, as of this writing, deleted their
Facebook page.
But Yelp is a very special, controversial case. See, even if business
owners dont want their business to appear on the reviews site, theres
absolutely no way they can remove it. Yelp obtains its business data from
third-party services, which means owners never actually opt-in to the
site. And while Yelp does encourage businesses to claim their page,
which gives them some measure of control over its content and the ability
to reply to reviews, it never lets them go dark entirely.
Consumers have the right to talk about what they like and dont like,
Yelp explains in its FAQ section. We dont remove business listings, so
your best bet is to engage with your fans and critics alike and hear what
they have to say.
Problems arise, however, when the people doing the talking are not
actually customers say, when reviews are planted by competitors, or when
the business is involved in a public scandal like this one. Yelp-trashing
has actually become a sort of reflexive protest against certain
controversial events: Behold the fates of Amys Baking Co., Memories Pizza
and the clinic where Joan Rivers died.
Palmer, of course, is not a remotely sympathetic character, and its hard
to feel too sorry for his flagging reviews. But there are other people
working in that dentists office, and Yelp ratings tangibly affect their
livelihoods, too. (In a statement, Yelp said the false reviews violated
its content policies, and it appears that they are gradually being
removed.)
[Amys Baking Co. meltdown begs the question: Is Yelp bad for small
business?]
Meanwhile, Palmer has bigger problems: Zimbabwean police have said that
theyre looking into whether his hunt was criminal. Whatever they decide,
of course, hell already have been punished by the Internet tribunal.
--
Obama increased total debt from $10 trillion to $18 trillion in the six
years he has been in office, and sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood
queer liberal democrat donors.
Barack Obama, reelected by the dumbest voters in the history of the United
States of America. The only American president to deliberately import a
lethal infectious disease from Africa, Ebola.
Loretta Fuddy, killed after she "verified" Obama's phony birth
certificate.
Nancy Pelosi, Democrat criminal, accessory before and after the fact to
improper vetting of Barry Soetoro aka Barack Hussein Obama, a confirmed
felon using SSAN 042-68-4425, belonging to a dead man.
Obama ignored the brutal killing of an American diplomat in Benghazi, then
relieved American military officers who attempted to prevent said murder
in order to cover up his own ineptitude.
Obama continues his goal of disarming America while ObamaCare increases
insurance premiums 300% and leaves millions without health care.
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