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Comment by chrsstrm | Hacker News Reader

The whole point of reviews is to inform others on your experience. If you’re uncomfortable with others knowing you’ve been somewhere, why are you giving reviews in the first place?

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OP means they want to do so at least semi-anonymously

generally, you review when you have a really bad experience.

I disagree. I review when I have polarizing experiences (good OR bad), or when I want to show support for a business.

I think tying a review to your google account is also good, because anonymity on the internet is generally used by people to say things they wouldn't say in the real world, often in harmful ways.

>I think tying a review to your google account is also good, because anonymity on the internet is generally used by people to say things they wouldn't say in the real world, often in harmful ways.

You're not wrong, but this is also the argument politicians use to strip you of your privacy on behalf of corporations

Generally, no, you don’t. Reviews can absolutely be positive and if you had a good experience that’s just as much motivation to leave a review. But positive or negative, that doesn’t address the issue that reviews are meant to be seen by others. It’s the entire core concept of the process.

If that was true then reviews would generally be bad, but that doesn't seem to be the case. One example is IMDB (good large dataset) where the average rating is 6.8 (wish I knew the median, but couldn't find that number).

So that others will see it

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