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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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