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Alien1Beingtoday at 1:11 PM1 replyview on HN

https://www.tripadvisor.com.au/Restaurant_Review-g293916-d87...

Actual customer reviews are less gushing than the WSJ article....


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embedding-shapetoday at 1:38 PM

Long time since reviews on the internet mattered one squat. Reviews can be because of everything from a jealus competitor, the platform asking the restaurant to pay to unblock favorable reviews/remove unfavorable ones, doing the opposite when you don't pay, or simple a bunch of people who basically fill the web with junk.

More often than not I have a great experience in restaurants with 2-3 out of 5 in ratings, and shit experiences with restaurants with 4-5/5 ratings, I've simply stopped reading reviews at all, anything with numbers on the internet is basically fuddled with nowadays.

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