Originally Posted by skipaway

Tripadvisor's policies themselves are what annoys me most. I stayed at one of the top rated hotels in Panama City based on reviews, and it was a pit. I wrote a well-balanced review, including a few good points and many pictures. I re-read the other reviews and noticed that the glowing ones were all written within a few days of each other by one-time posters who never reappeared on the site after their join date. I included this information in my review. Tripadvisor refused to post it unless I edited it to exclude the reference to the other posters. I think this refusal to air a glaring problem with their site (and, of course, with other similar communities) does a disservice to the less experienced who depend on TA to make important, expensive travel decisions. If I ran the world, and TA, I'd make a sticky as the first review of each property telling users how to evaluate what they're reading.

To their credit, that particular property dropped in the ratings, and the glaringly obvious fake reviews disappeared.