Yelp's One-Star Reviews Are Deranged. I Tried to Track Down the People Who Leave Them.
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I'm mesmerized by each of Sara's 13 one-star reviews. In her decade-plus as an amateur critic, she has evaluated a sushi restaurant in Oregon ('The fishes were so smelly'), the city of San José ('School shootings at its best'), and a 24 Hour Fitness ('the scale was broken. the machines were broken. and Tom is broken').
The change was immediate. My five stars effectively erased the stranger's one, and my friend kept his job. With the Yelp app now on my home screen, I began looking up my other local haunts, horrified to find that they were also being unju.
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