Comment by farazzz
2 years ago
On the flip side, as an avid Google Maps reviewer they also removed my negative review from a restaurant without any good reason (supposedly the business reported it as being “fake” or something)
It really pissed me off because I wrote a long thoughtful review and mentioned the good aspects of the restaurant too as well as some recommendations, and it’s just completely gone
The worst part is the restaurant is sitting at 4.5 stars despite being quite bad, and the recent low star reviews are all questioning the rating, which is obviously artificial
I've been reading a lot of reports recently about how businesses abuse AirBnb and Google Maps reviews by forcing the companies to remove them on technicalities or by outright lies. I wonder if I should just post any less-than-stellar reviews without any text but with rating only in order to make it harder for them to remove. Thoughts?
I’m at Level 8, how far along are you?
Just curious why you guys do this and for free?
It actually helps people. The only negative thing here is that Google makes money from it.
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I enjoy taking photos and reviewing food. I used to do it on Zomato, and made some friends through that, but Zomato pulled out of my country and Google Maps is pretty much the only good existing choice
I like to see my numbers get bigger and collect badges.
If that happened recently enough, I would guess that your "long thoughtful review" was confused for a ChatGPT fake.