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The Agora => UK & World News => Hoaxes & Scams => Topic started by: Maik on Wednesday, 06 December, 2017 @ 17:57:19
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I Made My Shed the Top Rated Restaurant On TripAdvisor
And then served customers Iceland ready meals on its opening night.
Once upon a time, long before I began selling my face by the acre for features on VICE dot com, I worked other jobs. There was one in particular that really had an impact on me: writing fake reviews on TripAdvisor. Restaurant owners would pay me £10 and I'd write a positive review of their place, despite never eating there. Over time, I became obsessed with monitoring the ratings of these businesses. Their fortunes would genuinely turn, and I was the catalyst.
This convinced me that TripAdvisor was a false reality – that the meals never took place; that the reviews were all written by other people like me. However, they're not, of course – they're almost all completely genuine. And there was one other factor that seemed impossible to fake: the restaurants themselves. So I moved on.
And then, one day, sitting in the shed I live in, I had a revelation: within the current climate of misinformation, and society's willingness to believe absolute bullshit, maybe a fake restaurant is possible? Maybe it's exactly the kind of place that could be a hit?
In that moment, it became my mission. With the help of fake reviews, mystique and nonsense, I was going to do it: turn my shed into London's top-rated restaurant on TripAdvisor.
https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/434gqw/i-made-my-shed-the-top-rated-restaurant-on-tripadvisor
Quite amusing!
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Amazing tale - funny and eye-opening. Longish read but very well worth it.
Would I ever trust TA again??! :blink:
Thanks Maik :btu:
Tony
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MMMM...Not so sure.
Looks like fake News, reads like fake News, smells like fake News.....
Guess what?
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Looks as though TripAdvisor may have removed it but a google search reveal this, which surely suggests the Shed at Dulwich had an excellent rating on TA:
(http://goinggreek.info/gallery/1_07_12_17_4_12_55.jpeg)