Why BeRated Cannot Delete Reviews
Reviews Last Forever On Berated
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Google, Trust Pilot, and other review platforms are blasting away reviews into the abyss.
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At BeRated, it is impossible to delete reviews. We specifically built our system this way. But wait! You may be asking, “How is this even possible?”
We store all of our reviews on Ethereum via Optimism. That may not mean much to everyone, and we want to take a brief moment to explain how this makes reviews permanent.
Ethereum and Optimism are distributed networks. Once data is stored on their blockchains, it remains a part of the permanent record. Due to the distributed nature of these networks, the data is then replicated and stored across thousands and thousands of nodes. The permanent record is impossible to alter.
Ethereum and Optimism allow programmers to remove data from the network, but the data still remains a part of the historical state. Therefore, even if data is removed, it still exists in the history. At BeRated, we went one step further, however.
On Ethereum, programmers can actually write software that prevents data deletion. To accomplish this, the programmer only provides a way to store the data. To delete, they have to also add programming code that deletes the data. BeRated just skipped the deletion part, and consequently, there is absolutely no way to delete reviews because there is no programming code to delete them! They are permanently stored on the blockchain.
Why did we do this?
Some governments around the world practice censorship and require platforms to police their users. The Chinese government is an excellent example of this. However, BeRated stops these bad actors in their tracks!
Since there is no way to delete reviews on BeRated, anyone under any government can post their thoughts completely anonymously, and their government can do nothing about it. They are powerless because the system stores the reviews permanently. No one can delete them. It is impossible!
We keep getting complaints from our traders stating that they reviews are getting deleted. @Trustpilot@TrustieSupport
We've complained with your content integrity team multiple times, but we keep getting AI responses. Do you guys have any control left of your company?
It's been about 20 days since we were cleared of any wrongdoing and reinstated.
However, we're still de-boosted according to Grok. None of our posts are visible except to followers.
So, we are still in a waiting pattern, until this gets resolved. Occasionally, we'll test.
We've been working with Grok to confirm we're no longer deboosted.
We currently are according to the latest check.
It might be another week or 2, and then we'll get back to stirring it up.
We have been suspended for a few weeks now.
We are not really clear on why, but we believe it was because we were posting links to reviews on our site.