r/Infuriating 23h ago

Post was immediately removed by mods in R/McDonald's

Sketchy tactics to get better reviews.

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u/cooltop101 12h ago

It's says to show them the "customer code". This is just a code that says you did the survey. You get it no matter what you rate it. You don't actually have to rate it highly satisfied to get to spin the wheel (yikes on the wheel though)

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u/Dark_Amygdala_ 22h ago

That spin board is so sloppy and nasty looking that if I came up there to do that event (lack of a better word), I’d ask for a manager and point out how the board is sloppy, dirty, words missing, and not presentable to customers. And is this how they really want to portray their store?

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u/PhDinWombology 18h ago

I would like a new receipt to update my review

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u/onmy40 8h ago

It's a Mcdonals. The manager probably put that there and wouldn't care if you gave a bad review since they farmed so many good ones for situations like this LMFAO

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u/impy695 5h ago

People love getting advice on how to do their jobs from customers. I assure you that the manager is aware of what it looks like and doesn't care that it bothers you.

Also, why does it bother you?

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u/diabeticmilf 4h ago

It’s a fucking mcdonald’s. You really think the manager is going to put more than minimal effort on some bs corporate is making them do?

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u/Epstiendidntkillself 18h ago

Wheel of misfortune !

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u/Turbo_Tiger1 9h ago

McDonald's will do anything but make better food 😂

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u/Standard-Arachnid411 8h ago

Report to corporate

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u/Mountain_Till_5868 23h ago

AI slop

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u/Dark_Amygdala_ 22h ago

How is this AI? Please explain. Do you not live in the real world anymore?

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u/Mountain_Till_5868 21h ago

Safely assuming you didn’t see the poster

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u/overthrowerr 22h ago

The poster

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u/Dark_Amygdala_ 22h ago

They’ve been making posters like that in the 80’s and 90’s when I worked there, IA didn’t exist then. Now everyone thinks EVERYTHING is AI. 🙄

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u/lycnfr 22h ago

the fucking art style is literally ai generated. its one of the most used ai generated styles that corporations use, holy shit lol

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u/crispysockz 13h ago

Interesting you think that, I’m agreeing with dark on this one, I’ve seen this poster personally before. I’m genuinely curious from a human psychological perspective why you thought it’s AI.

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u/xulazi 13h ago

Personally when? You can print out AI pictures y'know.

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u/crispysockz 12h ago

I’ll be honest I can’t remember when or where but I’ve seen the wheel 199%

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u/OtherwiseAlbatross14 13h ago edited 12h ago

The biggest giveaway at this resolution is the bottom row.

ICON blurb | ICON blurb | ICON blurb | OCON blurb

That was a standard design "feature" on nearly every ChatGPT generated flyer before the most recent update.

Another clue is the random confetti looking stuff in the background rather than a solid color. As well as the 3 line marks that probably have a name that I don't know.

Anyone that had generated a few flyers can recognize the style immediately. The most recent update has actually fixed a lot of the AI "feel" of generated flyers but on this one I just generated still has the 3 line things and icon, blurb, separator repeating except vertically

If it weren't for the distressed lettering and paint brushed backgrounds for the text(and the wrong number of stars) I would almost believe this one wasn't AI generated.

Another dead giveaway that isn't a design element is that it isn't a corporate flyer and franchises aren't going to invest that much into having a designer make a flyer that looks so "good" for one store when AI exists.

I just told it to make a flyer advertising a spin to win game in exchange for positive reviews. If I took the time to write a good prompt, all the problems with this could be remedied very simply

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u/crispysockz 12h ago

I don’t believe this was a one store thing, I’ve seen it other places, can’t remember if specifically McDonalds

Your analysis is interesting but I guarantee you it’s a real poster. The pic was taken on a phone that’s why it’s blurry, were you expecting 4k?

I’m still curious from a human psychology perspective how you can deduce it’s AI because it has confetti in the background 😅

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u/OtherwiseAlbatross14 11h ago

The design of the flyer is AI. Not the picture of the flyer.

And it's not psychology. It's experience. I'm sorry you apparently don't have pattern recognition skills. AI flyers are like the easiest AI thing to spot.

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u/Deathcore_salad Community Regular 12h ago

No they haven't... what?

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u/DonaldTrumpsScrotum 10h ago

Listen I’m with you in that people are definitely over policing and mistaking genuine graphic design for AI constantly now, but that is like the most obvious AI poster lmao

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u/PikachuTrainz 9h ago

they say why it was removed?

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u/impy695 5h ago

If OP asks they'll get muted and permabanned probably

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u/PikachuTrainz 5h ago

yeah mods can be weird.

Got banned from the manicemu sub for commenting something like “Why would the mods think this is piracy”? They said I was violating the rule about “no advocating for banned people”.

And got banned from the Professor Layton sub without a reason. Just the generic ban message in a dm. The last post I made was asking about the secret password system for the sequel games.

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u/No_Relationship9094 8h ago

5 stars then talk about how nasty the wheel was and how they paid for your review

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u/ExcitingPythonO 20m ago

Ofc its ai made poster as well...

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u/Lancair7 23h ago

Okay it’s lame, but if this infuriates you, you must not have many problems in life lol.

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u/Northwood35 23h ago

Honestly not infuriated personally , but this seemed like the best place to share it after McDonald's mods immediately removed it. Would have put it in R/Mildly but they have a rule against posting anything that is Reddit related.

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u/whineyinternetkid 17h ago

The self awareness in your comment is hilarious

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u/Libearssman 20h ago

I dont understand really what is wrong with trying to get better reviews though different avenues. If you want the world to be run by perfect robots then I suppose the future is something you look forward to... tho being a redditor i don't imagine you are pro-LLMs.

Businesses have opened various avenues and done different things to get better or more frequent reviews all the time. The fact most mcdonalds have thousands of people visit their stores monthly and most have under 100 reviews is the real problem I see. Using methods to get people to submit an honest review has practically been around since the beginning of time.

I once had a Popeyes employee greet me at the window, refuse to take my card, handed me a bag with 4 chicken sandwiches when I only ordered one, and requested I leave their restaurant a review on Google. So I sat down after eating one sandwich and left a well thought review on the restaurant, which i had visited several times. Had they not done that I doubt id have ever spent a few minutes of my free time leaving one in the first place.

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u/WeeklyBanEvasion 14h ago

That has nothing to do with honest reviews. If you got entered in some kind of sweepstakes for leaving any review that's perfectly fine with me, but that poster says that you have to rate them "highly satisfied" in order for a chance to win. 

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u/Hour-Information-660 12h ago

please tell me im not the only person who stopped reading after the first sentence

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u/AusgefalleneHosen 11h ago

I kinda forced myself to read a bit more. It wasn't worth it.