[shawndrost]

"At the very least, it should tell you your review is filtered, I see no reason to pretend the review is not filtered when the review is legitimate."

I can explain that for you! If you're gaming the system and Yelp catches you, they don't want to tell you they've caught you, or you'll just try again. That's also why you need to enter in a captcha to view the unfiltered reviews -- they want to prevent automatic methods of confirming that posts were filtered.

Apparently this isn't common knowledge -- the OP makes the same mistake:

"Interestingly enough, you have to pass a reCaptcha when clicking on it. Weird, I don't have to do that to view unfiltered reviews. Interesting...."

EDIT: ps, the user you linked to doesn't have a name. I'm not saying his stuff should be filtered, but keep in mind when you're looking at this stuff that a million factors go into that decision, and it's probably in their customers' best interests to err on the side of filtering a review.

[jbri]

But there are easy methods to see if your review was filtered - you just look for it with a different account.

This only affects people who have written legitimate reviews, that have been filtered. It does nothing to prevent an automated system from doing anything.