Answer added in topic Mobile Location Applications.
First off, I admire Yelp and think they have a great product for helping find great places in my area.
Also, I really think the whole authenticity in geolocation and what folks try to do to game geolocation is really interesting, worth studying, and something that can help lots of folks if solved in a clean way.
To answer the question: No, they are not. The code is very different from FourSquare's or Gowalla's. It is different in such a way that it is possible to have joined Yelp on March 2010 and have 2022 Dukedoms.�
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Let's assume that it takes about 3 check-ins to get a dukedom which is really generous. This guy has checked into places in LA 6066 times since March.
That's about 28 check-ins a day. I used to do beer sales. So some days I had a route of about 20 venues a day, and that's assuming I'm putting in a long 16 hour day. With LA traffic, it's pretty impossible to hit 28 places on that sort of a route. I'm calling foul here, and would like to see my hunch verified, b/c I can't really prove anything yet other than it doesn't match my experience as a former beer sales guy.
Any insight from folks at Yelp on this?
See question on Quora
Post originale: http://www.quora.com/Is-Yelp-s-new-check-in-feature-being-monitored-for-cheaters-in-a-similar-way-as-other-location-based-apps
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