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"  Elite Yelp users are known for being very serious about their status. So serious, in fact, that some Yelpers believe they should be paid for their reviews and have decided to sue the company claiming that they are, &amp;quot;unpaid writers.&amp;quot; According to Eater, a group of elite Yelpers has filed a class action lawsuit demanding, &amp;quot;just compensation of wages, benefits, and reimbursement for the reviews they created.&amp;quot; The suit claims that while Yelp has a system of rewarding frequent writers with things like &amp;quot;trinkets, badges, titles, praise, social promotion, free liquor, free food, and free promotional Yelp attire, such as red panties with &amp;#039;Make Me Yelp!&amp;#039; stamped across its bottom,&amp;quot; the site &amp;quot;could not exist, nor make its enormous returns, without its domination and control over non-wage writers.&amp;quot; Yelp clearly disagrees since its entire platform is set up for users to both write reviews and gain information about restaurants they want to visit in the future using information provided from other Yelpers. &amp;quot;This is a textbook example of a frivolous lawsuit, it is unfortunate the court has to waste its time adjudicating it and we will seek to have it dismissed. The argument that voluntarily using a free service equates to an employment relationship is completely without merit, unsupported by law and contradicted by the dozens of websites like Yelp that consumers use to help one another,&amp;quot; Yelp wrote in a statement.  Do you think the lawsuit has merit?  Find more great food content on Delish:  Search for the perfect recipe from our homepage Find out the latest food news Get a recipe book to save your favorite dishes Sign up for our free newsletters Check us out on Facebook, Pinterest, and Twitter  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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