The Truth Yelpers Movement

              This blog is being done with the intention of exposing the problems, issues & mayhem that a few certain people cause on the Los Angeles region of the Yelp website. One of those people is Mary Born(she's Mary "grassrootsgirl" B. on Yelp). She's a very manipulative person, is 2-faced to most people, she lets her emotions get the worst of her & has emotional meltdowns, she severely distorts the truth(especially when people make accurate observations about her) and suffers from paranoia schizophrenia. Her "nice, positive, caring & sweet" personality is very fake and is a schtick she uses to lure people in so that they will be on her side so that she can falsely say that she has a lot of friends on Yelp and so that they can become part of her flagging cabal on Yelp. Brendan Bartholomew is another person who causes a lot of problems on Yelp. Brendan is part of the San Francisco region of Yelp, but he posts on the Talk message boards on the LA region using pseudonym usernames. This blog is also exposing the very negligent way that the CM's(Community Managers) run their region on Yelp. Especially Katie Burbank of the Los Angeles region! There was a recent article on the Bloomberg Businessweek website about Yelp and the comments section has gotten very out of control. But thankfully, some of the comments expose a lot about what a few certain people on Yelp are doing and all of the trouble they're causing. So now I'll cut & paste those comments onto here. The most recent comments are at the top and the oldest ones are at the bottom. This is the website article where these comments came from -
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/11_24/b4232083260194_page_2.htm

HummJun 18, 2011 12:41 PM GMTKatie B the CM of yelp L.A. attended a private party(It was a "PYE" - Private Yelp Event) hosted by a yelp member and since then members that attended that party have gotten the ROTD multiple times.Fair?Mimi E gets flagged a load of times and never gets suspended, fair?The CM of LA East plays favorites.

Pompous OGJun 17, 2011 2:10 PM GMTOh yeah, I forgot about the drama involving Anna B. She sent Mary some harmless text message, like "You better take that review down" and then hysterical Mary claimed that Anna threatened her with physical harm. Mary should win an Academy Award, because as usual she managed to play her victim routine like she always does, so she could get everyone to rally around her. Anna doesn't even post anymore because of Mary's nonsense. 


EsquireJun 17, 2011 3:21 PM GMTBrendan wrote:Also, you are being a terrible friend to Chris, because you are pumping him up with false legal info. All that is necessary to obtain a restraining order in California is to prove harassment, which Chris himself proves every single time he posts something. And his harassment has not been limited to the Internet, not by a long shot. YOU AND MARY HAVE BEEN THREATENING CHRIS ALL ALONG !!With text messages and phone calls. CHRIS HAS NEVER THREATENED ANYONE,NOR ANNA NOR FREDERICK NOR CHING NOR MARJAN NOR BRIAN.YOU CANNOT FILE A LAWSUIT WITH BOGUS ALLEGATIONS A JUDGE WILL THROW YOU OUT OF COURT OR LOCK YOU BOTH UP. 


Pompous OGJun 17, 2011 2:00 PM GMTExactly! I was going to say the same thing, but JJ and CJPD beat me to it. I saw both threads which got deleted and saw how folks came out of the woodwork to call Mary out. I know this may come as a shock to you, Brendan, but not everyone on Yelp is a fan of Miss Pollyanna Goody Two Shoes. I've seen plenty of PM conversations where people badmouth her. Most people don't bother to criticize her publicly because they don't want to lose face or become a target for Mary's lemming supporters. It's not worth it. I'm not saying that anyone hates her guts, but several yelpers find her annoyingly sanctimonious. Most of her critics have already been named in earlier comments. 


Detective DearJun 17, 2011 1:58 PM GMTDid not Mary write on threads about how Brian "scared her" and wrote horrible things to her.Did not Mary accuse Ching and Frederick of slashing her tires in January to a few yelpers, in hopes of turning them against Frederick ?Did not Mary have a pseudo attorney threaten Anna with a restraining order because Anna "scared" Mary and threatened her life ? Seeing a pattern here?Did not Mary text Chris E and threaten him with a lawsuit on Wednesday June 15th ?Who is the weirdo ? 


CJPDJun 17, 2011 1:38 PM GMTWordula aka as Brendan B and a host of other names on yelp. He gets his account closed faster than the speed of light.Pathetic attempt to change the subject matter here from Mary and Brendan & the damage they do on yelp.com ,by bringing up another person every five minutes and hallucinating that every other person beside yourself is that very person.UNBELIEVABLE.


JJJun 17, 2011 1:26 PM GMTOh really Brendan?I am Marjan?Prove it.Its not so, sorry to burst your psychotic bubble.Posters on the thread?Ask Brian C.Ask Joe Napoli.Ask Frederick.Ask Chris EAsk SF yelpers.Ask a few others that didn't want the backlash of Mary's high school clique .


JJJun 17, 2011 9:50 AM GMTAt the start of this year, Los Angeles yeleprs were going batsover closing down new accounts.Remember Jay and Leyla and another girl by the name of Mina ?These were all said to be Marjan, when it was obviously not her.Looks like more than a few of you have closed, by flagging, accounts on yelp, and have no remorse.More than a few of you have a disconnection from reality.The integrity is in the truth.I have seen the closing of accounts with my own eyes.Let me convey to the reader the fake moral personality of M. Scott Pecks old book, The faces of evil. It applies here to Brendan and Mary and a host of others.Ask SF yelpers and LA yelpers, most of whom lay low. 


JJJun 17, 2011 9:38 AM GMTBrendan, Chris E. posted a thread on yelp this week about the truth and yelpers came on and called out Mary B.The thread was deleted as was the thread about Bloomberg.This is Mary's flagging cabal at yelp at work.It really should stop. Soon it will spill over to the people at yelp that don't even use the talk boards.Power is usually abused at some level.Jordans comment:Marjan wrote to many a yelper that she was closing her account. I was one.Why would she come back when all the lies were thrown around about her ?Exactly as they are here. Yelpers tried to do the same bully tactic to Michelle R., but Michelle is a tough chick.Same mob, same insane behavior. 


Craig TJun 16, 2011 11:42 PM GMTSarah Lieu from San Clemente is another crazy whack job. You better not get on her bad side or she'll torch your car!


OPPJun 16, 2011 10:31 PM GMTPompous OGJun 16, 2011 10:55 AM GMTBrendan's claim that Marjan was perma-banned is absolute nonsense. She closed her account by her own volition because she was being stalked & harassed. I choked on the irony when HE accused HER of being the psycho that no one likes. That's some serious, hardcore projection going on. matteor.yelp.com look for him in the future when he goes postal.


Connie ChungJun 16, 2011 7:23 PM GMTBINGO! Tokyo Model nailed it. Asian chicks also get fast-tracked to elite status. The favoritism is blatantly obvious. ...But that's just my slanted view. 


Dorothy CrumholzJun 16, 2011 7:03 PM GMTHMM. Is not this what the entire discussion is about? The fact that Yelp members make false accusations and spread gossip like wild fire?An unfathomable combination of deceit and bringing your own misery to the lives of others?Mary and her motley crew are the responsible parties for all of this.No one else.@ Mateo,Get a Life. 


AndroidJun 15, 2011 8:58 PM GMTTalulah sounded exactly like Mary. And I know the second comment was not by the real GY.It's sad that Brendan needs to further the anger here and have his fb buddies post here, in an attempt to redeem himself.A little late for that. 


JaniceJun 15, 2011 5:39 PM GMTBrenden is clearly delusional. He thinks he's fighting some noble cause by defending Saint Mary's honor. So, naturally he sees everyone as a threat and an enemy. His level of paranoia is very Richard Nixon-esque. Get help, Brenden. Not only do you have mental health issues, you've got a whole subscription.


Steve FJun 15, 2011 1:06 AM GMTSure Mr. B. and Ms Mary, that is an infallible way to tell whom is whom on the internet, by a spelling typo.And as usual,you and Mary want everyone reading this to think it is only one or two persons that are calling you out.Shocking.Brilliant.As Brian C said, it doesn't surprise me at all, but what can you do?My question is this, why are you two so obsessed with marjan?It only makes you look worse than you do already.


Steve F.Jun 15, 2011 12:24 AM GMTSarah and Talula are obviously the Mary and Brenden twins again, attacking Chris E for shouting out the truth on the yelp talk boards. Why you two cannot give it up and realize that you have been called out is seriously pathetic. Still using the Bloomberg site for your own agenda here, to discredit Chris, is disgusting.You have been called out Mary B and Brenden and there are more than a few yelp members that know the truth now. Attacking Chris will only show what a couple of schmucks you two really are.Give it up already. I have an even better idea, why don't you two get a life outside of yelp?Chris E is a good person. Sure he wasn't the most popular guy on yelp, but who is. And more important, who wants to be? 


Marjan GJun 11, 2011 12:48 PM GMTTo accuse ME of stalking is preposterous when I've been the *victim* of cyber stalking and Yelp could not care less. They haven't done a damn thing. I wouldn't be surprised if Jacob from Phoenix is the one posting as all these people to try to make me look crazy. That Jacob troll is the devil incarnate. You'll never believe what this man has done. He found out my email address & phone number and he even threatened to kill me in Farsi. I know it was him, I just know it. I forwarded the threatening voice-mails to Frederick OG, so he knows I'm telling the truth. But he made a pact with Ching to betray me, thus proving what two-faced backstabbers yelpers really are. You can't trust anyone on Yelp. 


This following comment exposes what Mary Born really does on Yelp:


ththJun 11, 2011 1:45 AM GMT"She has flagged members off of yelp and flagged members that do not agree with her politics, into permanent bans from yelp threads."This is true. Her behavior isn't unique, unless one takes into account the way her friends chose to intimidate her targets, by guilting them into taking her abuse with tales of her fragile mental health. 


Mary Born says that she's a friend of Ching T., so this following comment proves how very 2-faced & conniving she(Mary) really is: 


Marjan GJun 11, 2011 12:36 AM GMTAnd for the record :Back in December 2010, Mary and Brenden wanted me to flag Ching T and Frederick OG to help them get Ching and Freds yelp accounts closed.Since then I have come to find that Ching T is a decent person. A person that loves to write reviews and is an excellent reviewer. An Elite Yelp member. She is NOT anything that Mary and Brenden made me believe.Frederick is not the devil incarnate either.I am sorry for ever falling for their manipulations and involving myself with these two.Both of them are showing what a couple of disturbed people they really here on this website.I repeat:I never sent any texts to Chris E that were threats or anything of that nature, and Chris himself has told me he never forwarded anything to Mary. LIES LIES LIES.I have an iphone and I have never forwarded a text. These two are obsessed with me and it is obvious.Yeah right, I am all these posters. 


This comment by somebody who used the pseudonym of "John Smallberries" pointing out a very accurate observation of the real reason that Mary Born wanted to be a friend with Chris E.(he made the right choice to end that friendship because she was using him). -


John SmallberriesJun 10, 2011 7:12 PM GMTSounds like Chris E tried a failed Yelpicide pact with Mary so he could have her in his clutches. Chris, my lad, don't you realize that once you'd left Yelp, you'd taken away any reason she had to give you attention? You were only of value to her as a mascot, a prop with which she could see herself as she desired: a benefactor of helpless, wounded birds. The gradient between the high positive boost she would attain and your own relatively negative social stature was the sole source of attraction, my friend. Believe me, if you've taken away her opportunity to publicly swoop from her self-perceived heights to your dismal depths, there is no reason on earth for her to do it privately. Move on, and chalk it up as a lesson about how people will try to use you.


This following comment makes a very accurate observation about both Brendan & Mary:


LaurieJun 8, 2011 6:55 PM GMTBrendan's comments just prove what a bunch of whackos are on yelp.The veracity of the comments here were too much to take I guess.He shows his true colors here. As for Mary, the manipulation goes on as well, the yelp paranoia that everyone is another insidious yelper, hidden in the shadows.Grassroots girl, please get some help.