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>All these claims are publicly testable using web archives

I'm confused about how you think this would work.

1. Yelp doesn't report on its approval speed.

2. To get an accurate report on this, you would have to have several accounts posting positive and negative reviews on the same pages. Yelp doesn't allow this and would ban the accounts.

3. Yelp explicitly disallows scraping their site (i.e. having a bot archive the pages). Doing so would be thwarted by their anti-bot measures. It's also against their TOS.[0]

Do you have web archives that can be used to build these stats?

[0]: https://www.yelp-support.com/article/Can-I-copy-or-scrape-da...



For starters, i don’t even have to give you any hints because if you’re claiming somebody’s doing extortion you better have some good evidence.

1. You don’t need that to demonstrate statistically significant difference between paying and non-paying customers

2. You don’t need to make any accounts, only read existing and incoming data

3. Yes, you shouldn’t break TOS but you also shouldn’t be throwing around unsubstantiated accusations of extortion




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