On the other hand, a business owner has no other tool against review bombing except this. In a village near me a barber shop was review bombed by neo-nazis due to their support for refugees. They removed the fake reviews successfully but from time to time this Nazi scum remembers and review bomb them again. This goes on since at least 2020.
well, if the review says "this owner is shit because they support refugees", that in itself says something.
That's not really how it works with bad faith review bombing. When they're just actively trying to tank the business by any means possible, it'll be just actual lies. "Terrible haircut," "Rats everywhere," "Cut me and I was covered in blood," etc.
I recently had my own negative review removed from a crappy business and just checked this feature there:


Looks like it’s only semi useful as it only shows how many reviews have been removed in the last year while rating displays the total number of ratings throughout the years.
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