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I stopped using Yelp after I discovered that reviews I logged to the site were not showing if I was not "logged in" to Yelp. What is the point of using a social review repository if the reviews are only viewable by me, when I log in to the site? I'd be better served by putting it in a text file/directory.

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It's not a democracy - Yelp pushes the best reviews to the top. Most people read a couple of reviews, it serves Yelp's interest to make sure they read the best ones.

Why the downvotes? I'm sure everyone thinks highly of their own reviews, but let's be honest -- not everyone is Walt Whitman.

So, in other words, I as the user contributing reviews for which makes Yelp valuable, are treated as a de facto ruffian, my time and effort expended to "share" considered folly. So Yelp "filters" these and beyond wasting my time (as I should just collect in my own file of reviews or "share" on my own site) is it not a great conflict of interest going on here?

If you reviewed something you might refer to it later, for example - who was that carpenter we used last year?

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