Receiving reports this morning that "dislike" votes submitted to local restaurant review site The Urban Spoon have been removed.
After learning about the alleged deceptive branding practice of local donutter Peace Love and Little Donuts, members of the LGBT community went to Urban Spoon to share their opinions. The approval rating sank from 70% to nearly 40% in 12 hours.
This morning the site shows a 70% approval rating and the total vote count is more than 30 votes lower than Thursday evening. The Urban Spoon had earlier been removing negative comments posted by voters.
The Urban Spoon has issued no further comment on the issue of marketing/branding as a legitimate criteria for reviews, nor on the alleged targeting of LGBT voters.
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Sue Kerr
Pittsburgh Lesbian Correspondents
www.pghlesbian.com
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Re: Urban Spoon allegedly discounting votes?
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Anonymous
on Sat 03 Oct 2009 08:46 AM EDT | Permanent Link
The UrbanSpoon took down more votes. Only 53% of the people like it, but a lot of votes aren't being counted. They have left up three negative posts, so far.
Another place to leave a review is http://www.foodburgh.com/2009/10/peace-love-donuts/ Re: Re: Urban Spoon allegedly discounting votes?
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Anonymous
on Sun 04 Oct 2009 09:07 AM EDT | Permanent Link
Can anyone explain the Urban Spoon voting system? The number of voters is up an down all day long. Do they actually change people's votes with no explanation? I guess you have to keep your advertisers happy.
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I eat out ALOT
on Sun 04 Oct 2009 08:34 PM EDT | Permanent Link
I've been watching this all week! What a way to scam people. You suck, Urban Spoon.
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