SF News Even More Yelp Drama Another day, another bit of Yelp drama for you to chew on. This most recent morsel comes to us care of Timothy Holt, owner of Weird Fish and The Corner, claims he's "done
SF News Yelp Increases the Drama, Allows Businesses to Respond In what could be the most drama-inducing move to hit the internet in ages -- God willing -- Yelp has agreed to let businesses respond publicly to customers' critiques. Possibly in an effort
misc Yelp's Yelp Reviews More Mixed in Light of Extortion Stories We've been enjoying reading the onslaught of one- and two-star reviews about Yelp on its own site, ever since the extortion stories sprouted legs. Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman denies the accusations, claiming the
SF News Yelp Extortion Story Grows Kathleen Richards in the East Bay Express followed up her February story about the many-headed and allegedly democratic monster that is Yelp with a new story in which she responds to Yelp founder
SF News Comment Wars: Eater vs. Yelpers Whether it be his readers or the wait staff at Bar Bambino, Eater editor extraordinaire, Paolo Lucchesi, can get almost anyone whipped up into a frothy frenzy. Take, for example, the very innocent
SF News Behold the Yelp Tee Instead of wallowing over a poor Yelp review, the brilliant minds over at Pizzeria Delfina have decided to reclaim, if you will, cranky customer reviews. See, they're having employees wear shirts printed with
SF News Chronicle Takes Aim at the Internets (Again) With yet another cover story on the same subject in 30 days (same story, but no new information), The Chronicle's anti-Internet story "Web 2.0 defamation lawsuits multiply" attempts to show how the
SF News Lawsuit Over Negative Yelp Review Settled The lawsuit professional back cracker Steven Biegel filed against Christopher Norberg, all over one measly, negative Yelp review, has been dropped. According to Norberg: "A misunderstanding between both parties led us to act
SF News Lawsuit Filed Against Yelper for Bad Review After going to a chiropractor and having a billing dispute with the professional neck cracker, Christopher Norberg posted a negative review on Yelp, calling the guy a liar. The "doctor" in question, Steven
SF News Yelp Day Never Happened: Prop 8 Related? You remember how the Mayor's office told Yelp that they were going to declare December 4 Yelp Day? But then, when the day arrived, team Newsom blabbed to the media that that wasn't
SF News Yelp Day Never Happened Um, scratch that. Yelp Day, it seems, never happened. If you recall, Newsom supposedly declared today to be Yelp Day, but it was all one big fib. Or one big dream. Or one
SF News <s>Tomorrow is Yelp Day, Declares Newsom</s> Jeremy Stoppelman must be beaming. Mayor Gavin Newsom has declared December 3, 2008, tomorrow, Yelp Day in San Francisco. [cue church bells, angels choir] Sure, you can turn your nose up at the
SF News House of Shields Responds to Yelpers Unfortunate Night Out Goodness, it's been quite an enthralling day, hasn't it? The tale of the cheap patrons versus the cranky House of Shield bartender got many of us hot and bothered. And in an effort
misc Yelpers Attack House of Shields Bartender, Entertainment Ensues Internet drama of the hair-pulling, eye-scratching, and feline variety is always high quality entertainment. And today Yelp has it in spades. It seems some sort of Coyote Ugly-vs.-patrons fight went down over
misc Piling on Yelp (By Eyleen Tavy) Yikes! It wasn't enough that certain Yelpers lost their collective shit that local user-review site Yelp's bounced a bunch of users who were basically trading positive reviews, but now we
misc Close Reading of Yelp We enjoy the following review -- although we're only using part of it for it devolves into anti-Hillary rhetoric, San Francisco's latest form of socially-acceptable sexism -- because a) it turns out that
misc Close Reading of Yelp Sent to us by SFist reader Sean Yamamoto, today's Yelp review was penned by Beth S. (Please excuse the glaring nepotism.) She critiques Owen Bias, i.e., the "old dude with the sign,
misc Best Yelp Review Ever One star to a yoga place in the Haight. The entire review: I had to wake up at 5pm to pick up the manatee here. I am tired and cranky. Besides this place