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It's a network effect. Readers go to databases with the most data, and creators / reviewers go to the places with the best 'audience'.

Same reason why it's been a very long and hard road to replace craigslist for many things.

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I think there is that, but also the yelp user experience is mostly pretty polished, there's a nice app, maps integrated, large amount of restaurant info, reservations, take out from the app, probably forgetting other things but that's a lot of work and polish to just get to the point where you can ask other people to put the effort into leaving reviews. There's no guarantee any one will

Is craigslist unethical?

No it's just borderline unusable on anything other than a desktop and full of scams.

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