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Old Aug 28, 2013 | 2:01 am
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Originally Posted by CMK10
So I've recently started writing for TripAdvisor and I was looking at a review I wrote today for a bakery in Cary, NC called La Farm. I noticed it was the #5 (of 304) restaurant in Cary and I decided to look at what else was in the Top 10. Well, number six is a Chic-Fil-A with 10 reviews. That right there sums up a lot of the problems with TA.

Also, when I was looking at hotel reviews for a HGI I stayed at there seemed to be a suspicious amount of 1 time highly positive, 5 star reviews.
I've noticed a lot of TA (and to some extent Yelp) reviews are driven by price. So you need to filter out the obviously fraudulent reviews and then filter out the ones that go nuts about how great a value the place is or how large the servings are.
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