I assume owners would act in revenge on people leaving low score reviews to deter further negative comments. Owners operating within capitalistic incentive structure might give no shit if my review was correct or not. They might only care if it attracts or repel next customer. And the game goes on.
The question is who would warrant correctness of reviews? It works now somehow decentralizishly while you read more than 5-10comments, for sure there are less Karens than not-Karen :)
Reviews are a narrow case of reputation system. These are inherently biased and based on various subcjective criteria.
Mine was emotional in this case. I can only assume quality of other products, but outlook of place and prices set my expactations higher. So this is a review more about the place than this single pastry. I added information this was my first visit there. Anybody is free to take his/her own conclusions.
If you'd enter this bakery, and there would be a dogshit in the middle or rotten bread on shelf. Would that be sufficient reason for 1 star review? Even if that could be the only day when this happened?
In general I'd assume there is a similar variety of reviewers and review readers, and if there is too much Karen-comments it might be just Karen-place ;)
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