Yelp is it's own animal.
If you're out of town and need to see what's around, it'll give you a broad stroke, usually with reviews populated by people who either have the best or the worst things to say about a place. But it's how you navigate to eat.
5 star and 1 star, it's all gold or mud. But they generally have menus and that works better than the majority of the reviews.
"This is the best waffle house ever."
"They never refilled my daiquiri"
"Do they even get what 'fusion' means?"
It's the literal definition of literary noise. Yelling into a vacuum to equally vapid folks who don't actually have their own culture (or subculture) to be part of in reality. But it does become funny when people rate things that aren't restaurants or clubs or bars. Landmarks are definitely one of the oddest things that I've seen rated and because of that I hopped on board.
I started with Chrissy Field...which is obviously glorious and then continued to...
Anyhoo...I did this with a bunch of local landmarks until I started getting flagged:
What a fantastic use of fiscal resources. My response, that never received acknowledgment:
