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profdant139 wrote:
Joel, I know this is slightly off topic, but since you have identified yourself as an RVPR admin, I just want to say thank you!! I find RVPR to be enormously useful. Yes, there are the occasional flame reviews, but those can be discounted. And yes, there are the unreasonably favorable reviews (usually by newbies who have fallen in love with camping and think everything is wonderful all the time). But day in and day out, the RVPR reviews provide us with useful, detailed, and relatively objective commentary, often saving us from terrible rv parks or revealing hidden gems.

Well done!!

I will pass your comments along to my colleagues; they will appreciate them. Thanks.

I think you will enjoy exploring the new website with lots of additional features with more on the way. One of the new features is a numerical average rating for a park so you don't have to try to average the sores in your head. But even more importantly, you, the reader, will be able to award "helpful points" in much the same way you can on TripAdvisor or Amazon. If you wish you may give more significance to people with lots of "helpful" points, or not, as you wish.

Another new feature is the ability to add special "tips" to your review. These might be things like: "make sure to come into this park via Route XYZ because route ABC is very steep" or "be sure to eat at XXX's restaurant just down the road".

Also, there will be direct links from RVPR to reviews of the same park on TripAdvisor, Good Sam, etc. So you will be able to check all the reviews of a particular park with just a couple of clicks (these cross links will not all be fully populated when the site first comes up).

Other features will be added as we get the new site up and running smoothly. A smart phone app is under development and I expect to see it released by the end of the year.