Yeah it makes sense that those would get removed. They’re somewhat cut and dried.
The kinds of reviews I was concerned about in this case are dozens of “omg the staff is amazing!”
I can’t prove that they are fake, but I can tell you my experience at this building was abysmal and a LOT of other reviewers agreed. However unless you change the sort order to show newest first you’d completely miss that probably half of the recent reviews are all basically the same valid , damning complaints over and over, while 45%+ of the reviews are glowingly positive.
I feel certain they have paid for fake reviews, but how would I prove that to Google? Before, I could mark them unhelpful. Now I just have to give up ever trusting the reviews again and accept that anyone less cynical will get burned on occasion by shit like this.
Yeah it makes sense that those would get removed. They’re somewhat cut and dried.
The kinds of reviews I was concerned about in this case are dozens of “omg the staff is amazing!”
I can’t prove that they are fake, but I can tell you my experience at this building was abysmal and a LOT of other reviewers agreed. However unless you change the sort order to show newest first you’d completely miss that probably half of the recent reviews are all basically the same valid , damning complaints over and over, while 45%+ of the reviews are glowingly positive.
I feel certain they have paid for fake reviews, but how would I prove that to Google? Before, I could mark them unhelpful. Now I just have to give up ever trusting the reviews again and accept that anyone less cynical will get burned on occasion by shit like this.