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by jotr99 5396 days ago 

  It would be like if I read movie reviews from a
  reviewer who hates all the movies I like (or worse,
  is ambivalent). I wouldn't find reading their
  reviews useful.
You could read the reviews, and then only go to movies that reviewer hates. Not a guarantee, but it does decrease the sample size. Unless the reviewer hates all movies.
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m0nastic 5396 days ago
Yeah, movie reviews might not have been the best analogy. My general take on movie reviews is that I only use them to discover movies that I might have otherwise missed (i.e.: a bad review will never dissuade me from seeing a movie, but a good review of a movie I hadn't planned on seeing might make me see it).

And to be fair to Yelp, I've only ever really looked up Restaurant reviews, which seem to be the category of reviews that are the least useful. I don't think anything in a Yelp restaurant review short of "Every time I go here, they drag me to the back room and harvest my organs", would make me take notice one way or the other.

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