Does Yelp ever remove reviews?
Rarely. But in some cases a member of the Yelp team will remove a review (and will typically email the writer to let them know) if it doesn’t follow these guidelines: • Conflicts of interest. Your reviews should be unbiased and objective. If there’s any hint of a conflict, please don’t post the review. For example, owners shouldn’t sing the praises of their own businesses or bash their competitors, and users shouldn’t comment on their current or former employers. • Second-hand experiences and hearsay. For example, you can’t give a deli a bad review because your co-worker complained about his chicken salad. Your reviews must be about your personal experiences, not someone else’s. • Personal attacks. We can handle strong language, but there’s no need for lewdness, hate speech and other displays of bigotry. Your friends probably know when you’re being funny, but the millions of people who read reviews on Yelp may not. • Relevance. Reviews aren’t the place for rants about a business’s empl
