The Better Business Bureau has a history of using extortion-like tactics, pressuring businesses into paying for memberships to extract higher ratings. The show 20/20 from ABC did a segment on them in which they were able to procure an A-rating for Hamas.

As a former owner/operator of a small golf facility, I have experienced this diet-extortion first hand, and heard about similar experiences from other owners of similar businesses in our area (Chicago).

https://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/business-bureau-best-ratings-...

They're more like a pre-internet Yelp.

I seriously just considered adding "This business has no relationship with the Better Business Bureau (BBB)" to the bottom of my page.

That'll help reduce the correlation next time.

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I really hate when people have acronyms in articles and don't specify what they are.

It doesn't take much effort to spell out what the acronym is when you first introduce it, and you do your audience a disservice by not introducing it.

Of course you can google it, but the point is you're making people go out of their way to understand what it is that you're talking about.

Be conscientious people, and FFS (for fucks sake), spell out your acronyms.

I did, and the first three search results were bbbcycling.com, bigballerbrand.com and a local football club. I think people don't realize how much Google actually localizes search results.