Hello everyone! Greetings from Taiwan!
I’m Nate!
Recently I noticed a weird issue and maybe we can discuss and share our idea to make Google maps better!
Because of a political issues, some people/ accounts are attacking the rating/review of google maps.
Here is the news!
In short, a tea shop(Teamate) in Germany (https://www.google.com.tw/maps/place/Teamate/@51.2216388,6.7895964,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x47b8ca305328df67:0xd2ac7c9b98c8cbd0!8m2!3d51.2216388!4d6.7917851) claim their political statement and got many malicious or mean rating or reviews. This people might not even visited the tea shop before and gave such mean reviews and rating. One of a ridiculous said the tea shop couldn’t give him pickle flavor bubble tea? and then rated the tea shop 1.
Most of those weird reviews/ratings only use their accounts for 1 or 2 reviews/ratings, which means they might be just opened (robot). If a place got too many reviews/ratings in a short time by accounts who only left one review of all time, maybe google maps can temporally hidden their reviews/ratings in case they affect other innocent users.
I felt truly sad about this issue, anyone can hold their different ideas but please be respectful to others.
Hopefully, google maps rating/review is only affected by people’s real reaction and not related to any political issues.