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Comment by icebraining | Hacker News Reader

Now we need a reviews.txt so that we don't need to give control of the reviews to less than trustworthy parties.

I propose:

  [company/product name] (URL)
  score: X/Y
  [review text]
  --
  [next review...]

E.g.:

  Frank's Pizza Place (http://franks.geocities.com)
  score: 8/10
  Good service and food. Doesn't accept credit cards.

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You want to trust the businesses being reviewed instead? This also wouldn't stop these sites choosing which reviews to show. The best solution is to find a site you trust.

I think he's suggesting you would host this on your personal domain, reviewing other services. Yelp/etc would then act as an aggregation of these reviews, rather than the hosting company for them.

Yes, that's it, though it probably shouldn't require a particular position in the URL, so that you could e.g. put it on Dropbox, make it public and link it from somewhere.

As long as it was called reviews.txt and had that particular format, it'd be valid.

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