> People have very different tastes.<p>This has been my experience with any type of review platform like Rotten Tomatoes, Yelp and Amazon.<p>The review system that is derived from comments and stars doesn't make sense. The scale between stars and the rubric that defines moving up or down a star is not uniform across reviewers. With comments, you either get bots inflating the score, bots doing hit jobs, and disgruntled users who may just be in the wrong.<p>What the review system is trying to answer is: "am I going to like $thing that requires an investment of time/money" It is much better to take a property based approach. Yelp would do good to survey users on more actionable metrics: like cost, wait time, size of menu, was the bathroom well kept.