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Hey, so the Yelp drama has now expanded, with this Phillyist post all about me this week.
McQuade wrote, “If you give Yelp free drinks and promotion, you get great reviews on the site.” That’s not true. If you provide Yelp reviewers GOOD food and drinks (and good service), then you get positive reviews, regardless of whether it was free or the reviewers had to pay. A cursory reading of the myriad positive reviews of other establishments on the site clearly demonstrates this. Would he have taken issue with the reviews if the writers had been attending a corporate gathering (at which the food and drinks would also have been free to attendees) rather than a Yelp one?
Please note: I can’t imagine ever having to decide what my opinion is on those who review corporate parties on Yelp.
Perhaps it’s because the Elite moniker is offputting to some. Would commenters on PWD have been as harsh in their criticism of Yelp reviewers if Elite status was called something else, like “senior member”? At least one PWD commenter has written multiple negative, one-star reviews on Yelp, leaving us puzzled as to why he felt the need to complain about Yelp, its events and its members on this other site.
Is that a Chrissmari reference? (Enough for the oh-so-popular Chrissmari tag.) There’s constant hatred on her in the PWD comments!
McQuade himself is a yelper. He hasn’t contributed many reviews, though—and that’s a shame, because he’s a good writer and if he had, he probably would’ve been at the event in question and experienced the absurdity firsthand. Then perhaps instead of interpreting attendees’ reactions as elitist whining, he might realize that they were just offering honest opinions of their disappointing experience with this establishment, with a healthy dose of hyperbole and snark.
Man, I wish youse all cared about my column this much. In other news, the person in charge of Philadelphia Yelp asked everyone to just keep their reviews of Mexican Post on the site for the actual event, and Yelp yanked a bunch of phony reviews from (gasp!) businesses giving each other good write-ups.
Blogged Around Philly: Special Edition [Phillyist]
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As an Elite Member of Philadelphia Will Do, I would like everyone to know that DMac’s comments and opinions are VERY important.
Who set up the god damn thing in the first place? I would find it hard to believe that Mexican Post or any other establishment was the one who initiated the event. In all likelihood they (the Yelpers) set it up though their local contacts and then they complained when it didn’t meet their standard. Fuck em. I’ll never use that site anyways. There are plenty other places to find unbiased reviews.
I give PWD 3 / 5 stars for this article.
Phillyist is a joke. They are like the bastard child of all the other Gothamist sites. Just compare it to say Chicagoist or Torontoist.
Yelp is also a joke. Hey, lets make money off of the work of other people and call it crowdsourcing. It is a great business model, but it is still random people offering inexpert opinions and can be manipulated easily. It is more credible than Wikipedia, but almost anything including Fox News is.
I just wanted everyone to know that at the last PWD Elite Event, I only got like 3 tacitos. And they were fucking microwave tacitos, not even handmade. The only beer available was PBR cans. What’s worse, Dmac ran out of batteries in BOTH of his Wii Remotes. PWD Elite Events are SO fucking lame. How dare you attempt to placate us with free entertainment.