[eurokc98]

I would assume that when a new user is excited enough to join, they would in fact rate and review many of their favorite places. I agree that its a difficult subject but removing reviews does not seem like a good approach.

I would like to see them show all the reviews and separate the ones that are not approved/flushed out. Have the reviews/rankings grayed out and require the user to hit certain publicly known goals to get their reviews to be approved status. I think this approach would also help with spam as those companies that are placing and encouraging shill reviews are easily spotted.