@ErmesT
Sure, I’m up for a deep dive. Here’s a quick summary of what I know about this particular place and some extra background 
Please accept this with the kindest intent in mind - I don’t mean it to be confrontational at all and want to address your points and bring up further information behind my view and intention.
Beacon is a restaurant at a resort, and it is open to the public as well. This is not a resort like Sandals where only guests can visit their restaurants, etc. Although, at the Sandals here (Emerald Bay) you can pay for a day pass if you want to spend the day there to enjoy everything they offer, or you can go visit the spa for services without the day pass price (some of the locals will go get their hair cut or spa treatments there for example.)
I was at Beacon a few times last year but I did not choose to leave a review. I don’t review all the places I visit for various reasons, especially for local ones here if I don’t have something good to say - this is a very small place where many know each other. I have also taken guests that visit us to Beacon (most of us here just call it the Kahari restaurant by association) by boat. The only access there is by private boat or by the resort’s boat.
I have been there before a few times before as well, when it was called Lumina Point Resort, before it was sold and new owners changed the name. This place is now is owned by the same investment group that owns Peace & Plenty “Resort” (more like a hotel if you ask me) on Great Exuma (Kahari is on Stocking Island across Elizabeth Harbour) which has a pool of something like 70 investors. Out of those, some % (I don’t know the exact number) have invested in Peace & Plenty Resort on Great Exuma, a different % (but potentially overlapping number) invested into Peace & Plenty Beach Bar next to Kahari, another % into Peace & Plenty Island Cottages, again next to Kahari and another percentage into Kahari itself. The previous manager of the resort at Kahari (when it was was Lumina Point) was the wife of the owner of Blu which is now in Rolle Town, Exuma. Blu was first at Exuma Yacht Club, where Choppy’s is now. They moved to Lumina and retained the Blu name there while the husband ran the restaurant and now they have their own location in Rolle Town.
The previous local managers of Peace & Plenty Resort were a couple, who lived a few doors down from us on Great Exuma, whom we met at the hotel and became friends with. They’ve since left to do other things, but this is where I found out about how their ownership/investment pool works. +39 Peace & Plenty Restaurant that used to be at peace and plenty was run, but not owned by my neighbors, who now run a different restaurant here
While they were the local managers, they didn’t have the ability to update their listing, and getting corporate who handled this mixed pool of investors to get it done right wasn’t very effective either.
As for verifying a location here - it is very, very difficult. This was in my first post on this forum, which is why I turned to help from other local guides. I’ve tried to help some people verify their business. There are a number of challenges, but the main one being Google tries to send you a post card repeatedly the first few times. Mail takes months, and we have no local delivery, only PO Boxes or “General Delivery” and by the time the postcard arrives the code has expired. But you can’t request another one or another method until that has expired. Then they want various other processes and documents if you are able to get them to verify through GMB via other methods. Most just give up, especially the smaller businesses. If you were to look at the % of verified businesses here, I would guess it’s a very small percentage.
I don’t think it would be all that much of a stretch to edit a business far away from where I am. I don’t do all my edits/adds/reviews at the location. Sometimes when I travel, I wait until I get home to do them on my computer because it’s a lot easier at my desk for me at least.
I know you said that we are here to help the business, but that’s not how I look at it.
It’s not that I am not trying to help them, but I am doing it by trying to help the maps users - the general public - to help them find these places, make sure the location is correct, and especially here for the phone number to be correct because it really is a must to call to see if they are open or in some cases to make a reservation because it is not fun take your boat or drive by car 30 minutes to a restaurant that is closed because the hours on the maps listing aren’t correct, or they chose to close for a month and that information is only (possibly) posted to their facebook page. You can’t trust that the reservation request via an online method will be received for various reasons, one of them being internet and power outages which are common here. These are the types of things one learns when they live in a place like this, especially when coming from a country where almost everything is more reliable. I am trying to make the visitors (who are used to relying on maps) experiences here better, which in turn hopefully helps the businesses as well.
Visitors here don’t know all these things - the quirks of how things work or don’t.
For the couple of businesses that I have tried want to help, I try to help them through the arduous GMB verification process, but I surely can’t do that nearly on the scale I can with edits, and frankly I usually give up due to the reasons listed as well.
Unfortunately scams do happen. A while back, Exuma Beach Resort for example, had their website which used to be exumabeachresort.com hijacked, and it would redirect to Expedia (if I remember correctly) through an affiliate link so the person who did it could make a % on the bookings. The manager at the time had a huge challenge getting Google to change it to their new website which is now theexumabeachresort.com but I was able to help by contacting Expedia or whomever it was they were using an affiliate program through and reporting them by the affiliate ID in the URL and they shut down that scammers account. It took a few more months to get the website change in Google maps. I don’t think they are claimed by the owner either to this day. You can see my review of EBR was added about 4 years ago.
The problems from these come from the fact that Google just doesn’t have good data here and GMB is very difficult, especially for smaller businesses here. Not so much in Nassau, although they also don’t have home delivery of mail, but at least they have street names and signs. The smaller islands are a very different world digitally speaking, so these “digital footprints” don’t exist in the same way they do in more technically developed areas or countries.
I hope that explains my perspective a bit more.
I’m not sure what you mean by “mass editing” if it is just asking one person to help with a particular edit though, in the context of local guides. I do understand that can be a spam tactic, but one edit would not be “mass” in my view. I understand that it’s against the rules now so I won’t ask for that.
@MortenCopenhagen I appreciate your links to the tips. Thank you.