
So Why The Yelp Review Filter Algorithm Rewrite?
Yelp has always enforced strict (and unpublished) guidelines for how it determines which reviews get posted to the public-facing profile and which ones get moved to the filtered reviews portion of a page. In that greyed section (pictured below), a video link exists reminding people why Yelp’s filter process exists. It’s Yelp’s way of qualifying the “filtered” or suppressed reviews section to viewers and reminding them that these profiles don’t meet Yelp’s standards for a totally fair review posting.
