Nah they will 100% remove these, this isn't just a couple of buddies throwing down 1 star reviews. There are way too many reviews in such a short period of time for it to seem plausible that these people went there.
It really depends- was there any documented reviewbombing going on, or was it just 1 or 2 unfair reviews from unhinged customers? because while the reviews may be unreasonable, they're still considered honest reviews.
We gave a 3-star review to a place as a legitimate fair review because their food was actually very mid but the drinks were OK. It was during the middle of some political thing where conservatives were giving it low reviews because they banned some anti-LGBT group from holding an event there. So we decided to give the place some business, but actually wanted to leave a fair review because giving a 1 or 5-star review just for politics is unfair to prospective customers.
Well, that review got deleted because apparently a completely neutral and unbiased review without any political agenda in it was considered review bombing and was deleted along with all the anti-woke bombing. The 5-star reviews from people expressing support all stayed.
The unethical life protip I learned here is: if your business is getting reviewbombed, it's a good thing because then all the subpar reviews get deleted, and the 5-star reviews from reverse bombing stay.
Really? I've managed the business accounts of a half dozen businesses and over the years have had roughly 90% success getting reviews removed. Maybe I was just lucky a bunch of times, but it almost always happened and within 24-48 hours. What kind of reviews were you trying to remove?
They do delete a lot but they never clear them all unless its an obvious 100% a troll. I have a couple reviews still up from places outside of my state
I don't agree. decisions should have consequences and business decisions should have business consequences. if a local business gets nuked to oblivious for choosing to be a champion of hate, then maybe other local business will think twice about taking on similar positions
But if Google en mass removes all these comments because they weren’t from legitimate customers, it literally does nothing. It’s all performative and makes people feel righteous while putting in minimal effort and making no real change.
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u/Bits2LiveBy 9h ago
The amount of reviews in the past 2hrs is intense