Got banned from a recipe forum for calling out a fake review

Found this cheese dip recipe on a cooking forum that had 200 rave reviews, so I made it for a party and it was basically gooey glue. I posted that the photos looked stock and the reviews seemed fake, and the mods banned me for "negative vibes" within an hour. I wasted $30 on ingredients and a whole Saturday afternoon prepping that disaster. Has anyone else gotten the boot just for being honest about a sketchy product?

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willow_ellis5mo ago

Oh man, this is so relatable. I got banned from a mommy blog forum once for saying a popular cleaning hack was a total waste of time and money. The post had like 500 glowing comments, but that spray bottle recipe turned my grout orange and left sticky residue everywhere. I pointed out that the "before" pictures looked staged and a lot of the reviews seemed copy-pasted, and mods deleted my comment and banned me within a day. It's honestly frustrating when a whole community is just there to hype up fake stuff instead of letting people know what's real. That cheese dip story makes me mad for you, especially after you spent all that time and cash. Sometimes it feels like honesty just gets you booted while the fake stuff keeps rolling.

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jackson.jenny5mo ago

Five hundred glowing comments and not one person actually tried it, classic. @willow_ellis you're right that honesty gets you booted, but the fake stuff keeps the ad revenue coming so nobody cares.

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