Wrathtard B.

Look, I've been on Yelp since 2006. Like all crowdsourced opinion sites, it had merit when it first launched, and a couple of years thereafter. There was a cool community of like-minded people who enjoyed food and drink, and in the Talk section, we'd BS about where we ate, or joked around with each other.

Many of us got dates.

Then, as with all sites that have grown beyond their usefulness, they have degenerated into a cesspit of angry and elitist snots who think their opinion means something, or being a Yelper means anything to a business owner other than "This person is nothing but a headache."

With crowdsourcing, the more people that flood in, intelligence dips precipitously. The ability to write a cohesive sentence deteriorates. The Talk section becomes porn, and the business model essentially extorts money out of small businesses who struggle to get their feet off the ground.

What you won't see is anybody representing Yelp bothering to stop by here or any other site ratings to defend themselves. They do not care. Nobody has ever received a legitimate correspondence from Yelp that wasn't a canned response or form letter... written in that sickening, kintergarden-teacher, sing-songy prose, signed off by an obviously fake pseudonym like Dino, Bam-Bam or Scooby (I kid you not.)

They don't value the contributors, they don't value businesses. They are the worst exercise in Machiavellian corruption online, next to porn and outright scams.

Why did I give it two stars? I got laid a few times, so Yelp has its limited purpose.

Hey, it's pretty obvious its a scam. All I did was test numbers I knew didn't exist, and they, YAY, had information on them for a price. Everybody knows there is no such exchange as 555.