> > Whoever solves trustworthy, honest reviews will be a very, very rich person.
> We will never have completely trustworthy user reviews.
just reading these to comments helped me figure out how to solve this: since apps have location tracking, for restaurants at least, your reviews should be weighted by how much time you spend close to a restaurant. If you claim to like a restaurant, but you don't eat there much, that means your reviews are not reliable. This unreliability would transfer to reviews of places that are not close to your home/work.
bonus points to combine it with confirmed food expenditures on your credit card/applepay.
It's not that people are making up their restaurant visits.
It's that they are going to the restaurant, they had a good time, but they didn't disclose that they are close to the owner, and maybe they overlooked a few things here and there that an impartial reviewer would note.
> We will never have completely trustworthy user reviews.
just reading these to comments helped me figure out how to solve this: since apps have location tracking, for restaurants at least, your reviews should be weighted by how much time you spend close to a restaurant. If you claim to like a restaurant, but you don't eat there much, that means your reviews are not reliable. This unreliability would transfer to reviews of places that are not close to your home/work.
bonus points to combine it with confirmed food expenditures on your credit card/applepay.