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Yelp.com "Talk" discussions are out of control. By design Yelp, Inc. encourages unmoderated personal attacks as a form of entertainment and refuses to provide any control of user "talk" comments. No action is taken when users "flag" a comment as inappropriate. Users who send personal emails to help@yelp.com do not get "helped." Yelp, Inc. SHOULD be (1) deleting threads or posts that are personal attacks and (2) deleting users who are repeatedly causing problems. Yelp would be a much better experience and more in sync with the "Real People, Real Reviews" theme if the talk threads were properly moderated. Jeremy S. (CEO) and his team continue to take a hands off approach. Too bad.

The really serious problem with yelp is their insistence that users use real names and post real photographs of themselves. Then you go and review neighborhood businesses where you live or where you work. Can you think of a better environment for an internet stalker, who now knows your name, what you look like, and where you hang out?
There are already examples of users gettign harassed by others. How long will it be before a stalker like the one that murdered a craigslist user in minnesota shows up on Yelp? I wonder how much liability insurance the site owners carry?

Can't sign up for Yelp under my zip code 90210. Yelp keeps saying "Yelp is overworked right now". I have tried every day. Does anyone know what's the problem? and they're promoting themselves in Rodeo Dr Beverly Hills events that I am invited. What an irony. I've also tried many days and with different zip codes to see if they work. I have left many feedbacks and even e-mailed their local LA e-mail address they display on their site, for fancy I guess. None have replied in a reasonable time. Guess, their business of reviews on other businesses is back on their own being "not so great". They proudly mislead by saying, "not signed up yet, we still love you"........Yeah, you're right.....Otherwise, all businesses have a better explanation on things rather than saying "Yelp is overworked right now". Maybe, they should say something that has truth in it. Whatever.....

Yelp canceled my account for posting that a few area restaurants server shark fin soup. I was posting an honest opinion and without any warning, my account was cancelled. Yelp claims "real reviews by real people" but they clearly are not interested in living-up to that if it offends the restaurants that are being reviewed?

I was recently working in a salon I TURNED ON to yelp! I had many many GREAT reviews (JUDI RAGASA) and now, there are no reviews about me in their yelp list at all???what is going on here??? can a disgruntled owner banish good reviews on a former employee??? I can not imagine why there are NO reviews about me after I had helped him get started on the yelp site to begin with??? The OFFENDING salon is VEDA SALON & SPA in Gainesville, and I'd like to complain about biased posting!! I'd also like to voice the fact that employees of an estblishment should ALSO have a right to REVIEW and EXPOSE un ethical EMPLOYERS, and how they ultimately run their business, while presenting a fake ethic. What is Yelp ultimately promoting anyway??? honesty is honesty, from an outside consumer perspective, and ESPECIALLY, from an insiders point of view. come on Yelp, get real.

I just did a search for "sushi" in bernal heights. and got some wacky results.


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I was checking to see if any of my gmail contacts were on yelp and was only able to get the following message despite using the correct email address (@gmail.com) password and selecting GMail.

"Sorry, you can only invite mail contacts if you have a Hotmail, Yahoo, AOL Mail or Gmail email address. "

gmail account: kestrachern
yelp account: kestrachern