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Interesting, after reading this I went to go check my anonymized glassdoor profile (yeah, I would never risk getting fired by giving this company my real name) and discovered that all my reviews were deleted.

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Yeah, you can't "pay to remove a review," but if you pay Glassdoor and report every review you don't like for ToS violations, 40% of them disappear regardless of any violations. You can't appeal, for a long time you weren't notified, you can't ask why (though you can re-edit till you find a version that survives a couple moderators), and if they leave the review up then your employer can respond however they like without recourse (unreportable, you can't edit your review once your employer has responded, ...). Your reviews can be removed even after internal moderators have already approved them. The reviews aren't sorted by publicly rated helpfulness or by chronology.

This is true. While there is no explicit "pay to remove", if you have a premium account you have far more power to remove reviews you don't like.

Source: I know of a company that paid for a huge package, and routinely removed bad (true) reviews about said company. They loved it.

Coincidentally when I logged in to my account, for the first time in years, they also pulled my reviews. I got one email for each of them, saying:

"Our moderators evaluate each review to determine whether it complies with our Community Guidelines. We determined your review does not meet these guidelines.

If you wish, you are welcome to edit your review here and your edited review will be reevaluated within 24 hours of receipt."

I just went through the process of deleting my content using their data removal tool and their mechanism for deleting your data triggers those "X was removed for violating community guidelines" emails for everything it deletes. I had 9 emails from them as soon as I submitted it.

I was wondering what those were triggered by. I actually thought it was a shady attempt to get you to come back and engage. I got several soon after submitting my data deletion request.

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