THE VIDEO SHELF · fake online reviews
How to Become TripAdvisor’s #1 Fake Restaurant
VICE's Oobah Butler spends eight months using fake reviews to push a nonexistent restaurant, The Shed at Dulwich, to number one on TripAdvisor in London. The short documentary shows how easily review systems can be gamed.
Why HN readers recommended it
Cited as the canonical example of fake reviews and gamed rating platforms.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- VICE
- Topic
- fake online reviews
- Format
- documentary
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 5
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2018–2021
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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The tenor in this discussion so far seems to be a bit on the condescending side. Frankly, I'll pick it up for this guy. What an incredible job – and a great reminder that marketing your service is often times more important than the service …
dfee on Hacker News · 2018-01
In ‘The Shed at Dulwich’ was London’s top-rated restaurant. It didn’t existUnrelated to Deliveroo, but "How to Become TripAdvisor’s #1 Fake Restaurant" (2018) was very telling as well: [VIDEO] From the video description: > The Shed at Dulwich was the number one rated restaurant in London, with foodies, celebrities and bloggers trying to get a table. …
fatfox on Hacker News · 2021-03
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