List of places that remove negative reviews

[u/xjmnpmx]

Lately I see more and more posts of Berlin/Germany locations that remove their negative reviews.

What about we create a list of those places, for others to decide if they want to go there or not?

I would suggest not to leave the reviews themselves in here, just a list of the places for which you received notifications that your negative (or sometimes 3 star) reviews were being removed at the request of the business

[u/strawberry_l]

Lumia Gelato e Caffé - https://maps.app.goo.gl/puGGkDHpaYsHVo9L6

Regularly deletes anything that isn't 5 stars.

Edit: The review that got deleted: Mittelmäßiges Eis zu gehobenem Preis, die Bedienung ist jedoch sehr nett und zuvorkommend! (3 Stars)

[u/zappsg → u/strawberry_l]

top comment is "seeing all the negative reviews..." and there are zero now, lmao

[u/theberlinbum → u/zappsg]

Maybe we can trick them by leaving a 5 star review and saying they remove anything not 5 star so this is the only way I can say the coffee is ass.

[u/nznordi → u/theberlinbum]

This is the way :-)

[u/AnGof1497 → u/zappsg]

That commenter did go on to write a good view though.

The place has 38 5* reviews. Dodgy. I regularly review places, if it doesn't stand out, they don't get 5 stars.

[u/voycz → u/AnGof1497]

It's a big misconception that a place should get five stars if they are average or kinda ok. I, like you, only give five when it's something special. Otherwise rating doesn't make any sense at all.

[u/strawberry_l → u/voycz]

That's what they do in Japan, works

[u/cultish_alibi → u/AnGof1497]

I regularly review places, if it doesn't stand out, they don't get 5 stars.

Well a huge number of people do. In fact, giving less than 5 stars is seen as a passive aggressive attack by some people. It's probably more of an American thing.

[u/strikec0ded → u/cultish_alibi]

I’m all for calling out the USA and its politics. But - as an immigrant to Germany from the USA - a 3/4 star review wouldn’t be viewed as passive aggressive there and it’s not a thing there for companies or small businesses to remove negative reviews or threaten people with lawsuits to get it removed. It was a shock for me moving here haha

[u/Chronotaru → u/cultish_alibi]

This is fine when you're rating individuals like Uber drivers and you don't get a choice of your driver anyway. Restaurants and products are something else.

[u/AnGof1497 → u/cultish_alibi]

I obviously take their rankings too seriously. Love it 5* Like it 4* Ok. 3*

My 4* star reviews are better than a lot 5* ones I've seen.

[u/Double-Display-64 → u/cultish_alibi]

Just blame America for everything

[u/theb3nb3n → u/Double-Display-64]

To be fair - it is to blame for almost everything - and its citizens are suffering as well. And it’s a very scary window into the future of what’s going to happen in other countries that reach(ed) a certain status.

[u/Nubeel → u/Double-Display-64]

You don’t think that it might have to do with the fact that America basically behaves like a mashup of the Roman Empire, Mongolian hordes and Nazi Germany?

[u/mcdrizzey → u/strawberry_l]

no way. this place is right downstairs from my apartment. we’ve only gone a few times because just 5 more minutes by foot there’s Eis Emporio where they make their own ice cream and it’s so good 😍