Do not use Yelp. Do not trust Yelp. Do not waste...

Do not use Yelp. Do not trust Yelp. Do not waste your time posting reviews on Yelp. Certainly, DO NOT advertise with Yelp. Yelp's rating on it's own website is less than 2 stars. It crushes small businesses that will not pay their exorbitantly priced and most aggressively marketed advertising fees... (extortion by any other name?) Are you a user? It disregards your time and effort and disdains your opinion by hiding reviews - under the guise of a proprietary algorithm used to 'validate' reviews. Further, it states "We do not recommend..." which is then associated with Yelp not recommending the business itself, rather than the review it has hidden. It would be easy, transparent and ethical - to simply display the rank assigned by the algorithm next to the (unrecommended) review - rather than hiding it. People don't know the power this company wields over small businesses and public opinion by controlling the content of reviews that are visible and the number of reviews that are hidden.