top comment from the same page: so, I found the Yelp page, and there are 26 reviews filtered out. Of those, the reviewers have a combined 27 friends, and they all come from just 5 people. None of them has more than 15 reviews, and the majority have less than 3. If you have almost no friends and almost no reviews, your reviews are probably going to get filtered out. Also, a lot of her 5-star reviews happened in a 3-day period, which reeks of fake-reviews,
> Question here is, if money means hiding bad reviews, is that extortion?
you have not yet demonstrated "money means hiding bad reviews" but already sure it's extortion,
so a PR campaign,
> https://www.reddit.com/r/food/comments/zdq0f...
top comment from the same page: so, I found the Yelp page, and there are 26 reviews filtered out. Of those, the reviewers have a combined 27 friends, and they all come from just 5 people. None of them has more than 15 reviews, and the majority have less than 3. If you have almost no friends and almost no reviews, your reviews are probably going to get filtered out. Also, a lot of her 5-star reviews happened in a 3-day period, which reeks of fake-reviews,
> Question here is, if money means hiding bad reviews, is that extortion?
you have not yet demonstrated "money means hiding bad reviews" but already sure it's extortion,
> Forbes article - Court Says Yelp Doesn't Extort Businesses
oooook?
> cnet article
article about same business from your first link
> when they call, and you fail to pay, your page on YELP goes to the toilet. How much "proof" do you need?
you've made a claim, i believe you forgot to include the "proof"? that specific claim by the way is trivially demonstrable using wayback machine