Well it's called "Pro"pinions not "anti"pinions-that sounds transparent to me... xD - Mark Forman

Dave you want me to Troll them for you? lol - Igor The Troll

Igor the friendly troll! Or is it like the Godfather? If I come to you as a friend then on this day my enemies would be your enemies and the scum that did this to my daughter would be etc etc. Or will we have to rate your trolling serivces on Propinions? You can see how my mind works. I have to consider all the possibilities! - Dave Winer

or is it PR-opinions ? - Shey

Should we seal it with a kiss! Bacho a Bacho? LMAO - Igor The Troll

Shey-+1 - Mark Forman

http://mp3.newsjunk.com/godfath... - Dave Winer

+1 Shey :) - Karim

You delete most of the negative comments on scripting.com. What's the difference? Why should we trust you? - scott anderson

Amazon.com used to do this also. Now they wised up & show the most positive and the most negative comments. --> Try archive.org searches for propinions.com & e-mail the people who run propinions.com. We can help companies change their behavior if they realize we're listening. :-) - Mitchell Tsai

is it not the prerogative of the site to remove damaging comments from there own controller site....they obviously can't do that on say other site like getsatisfaction.com...negative comments can be put there... - Arjun

I respect both comments negative and positive and that is justice! - Igor The Troll

According to a restaurant proprietor I spoke to, Yelp offered to take just his bad reviews off if he paid them. He refused. I now read yelp as 1) tons of glowing, detailed reviews means good 2) no reviews is probably bad, unless place is new and 3) just a few good reviews is potentially bad too - Lilly Irani

@scott anderson - First, he does not delete all negative comments. Secondly, his site is not about rating stuff. If a service is about rating stuff, it has to accept negative ratings. So the difference is a big one. - sebmos

@sebmos I did not say that he deletes all his negative comments. Dave presents himself as an influential authority on a variety of web technologies. To a large extent that authority comes from individuals who are also promoting him as such. - scott anderson

Lilly: I work at Yelp (as you know), We don't remove reviews for money, that's totally false. - Michael

I generally delete comments that make negative statements about people participating in the discussion. If it requires a defensive response I delete it. No problem with people expressing varying points of view. And if someone thinks my products are bad and says why (not just "you suck" or "they suck") of course I leave that there. I want my products to get better. And as sebmos says, I don't run Propinions, whose job it is to alert people to shitty products or services. - Dave Winer

I believe that 'Dave Winer' is the product. After all, the articles on Scripting News are not about scripting. I also believe that the software you develop, extensions to the Dave Winer platform, would not get any traction if they were created by anyone else. Therefore, deleting comments that appear to undercut the Dave Winer brand *is* manipulating relevant consumer information about your products. - scott anderson

the question for these review sites is how to get them avoid the high number of positive fake reviews they get. I have to spend some time in yelp to fond out how they deal with these - Loic Le Meur

@Loic I don't know about you but I can spot a fake review from a mile away. They tend to follow this formula: Lots of praise but little to no detail about the business or experience, very short, and more often than not, containing broken English (possibly due to the fake reviewers being hired in another country). - EricaJoy