🗺️ While visiting Pride Berlin, I learned how utterly pointless Google Maps Reviews in Germany are.
⭐ Any place can simply report negative reviews for defamation or claim the person was never there and have it removed.
Users can then appeal & risk a lawsuit.
When a review is removed the removed count on Google Maps goes up (🖼️ 1)
However that count is reset after 365 days and also only goes to 250! (🖼️ 2)
Therefore companies can simply mass report negative reviews to improve their rating.
https://support.google.com/contributionpolicy/answer/16997273
So many vulnerable people are relying on Google Maps reviews & ratings to tell them where it is save to go.
Some places have only 1000-2000 reviews but >250 reviews removed in the past 365 days!
Like how bad must the situation there be?!
Absolute shame
Google Maps Reviews in Germany are utterly pointless
2 Comments
starchylemming@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 35d
that number is also a telling review then
unreliable@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 28d
Yes it telling, but don't matter. I have many bad reviews removed from bad places, that now stands with high rating that the good places that have 0 review complaint. I can not give more 5 scores on good places, I can not give less that 5 scores to bad places. It is impossible to a good place has better score without playing the same game, that some places, are too good to enter in this shit