LPT: Yelp replaces restaurant phone numbers with a special number that charges that business a marketing fee. If you find a good restaurant on Yelp Google their phone number instead so they don't lose any money.

let me tell you a good way to fuck over yelp.

make multiple accounts using different emails w/ different naming conventions to make it look like you're not the same person on the same network. if you have a vpn, this works better.

on those accounts, leave different 1 star reviews on multiple businesses making up rude ASF stories or etc, but not making them TOO unbelievable so that they're not automatically removed or disregarded. your reviews should have enough detail to make yelp moderators confused on whether you're for real or not. you can end your reviews with a cryptic message like "screw yelp"

possibly leave a couple 2,3, 4 star reviews on some pages just to help the automatic filter make ALL your reviews more visible (if an account has 100 1-star reviews, account is most likely going to be hidden just cuz that's off)

the 1 star reviews will make business owners very angry with yelp, and yelp will refuse to remove those reviews. yelp loses credibility and business. however, you do also sorta hurt businesses by doing this too, so your choice.

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