Please THINK Before You Review

mdcamping wrote:
I have no experience with yelp, Tripadviser, but I am on the boards of RVPR often enough to say they make a sincere effort about keeping the gaming to a minimum. The 3 review minimum, the policy where any review over 6 months will not be allowed, having to write a few sentences about the park and more with the new site on line. All of this keeps the gaming to a minimum.

My "opinion" 90% of the reviews are legit.

I have been using the site since 2007 and I have never been steered wrong about a review from that site.

Further more, about 5 years before I started using RVPR we had a terrible experience at a campground in VT and sure enough when I go back to reading the reviews of that campground I find all the flags/warnings in the reviews, short story read all the reviews, the site does work.

Mike

I am sure that there are some sites that do make and effort to contain the Gaming, but you know that it is impossible to stop. All anyone need do is take 5 minutes and create a new identity then log on and continue.

The other facet of reviews is that many people who do give actual reviews (as opposed to the gaming type) have an axe to grind. If you have legitimately asked someone to stop breaking the rules (like smoking in a room or letting your dogs run loose for example)they get angry and get back at you with a bad review. The whole review system is flawed at it's foundation.

While you can try to read between the lines it is often impossible to discern the real from the gamed or the "gotcha" reviews. People can be very crafty about how they write these.

Mob sites like TripAdvisor and Yelp are just that. Mostly just an unruly mob with many hidden agendas and axes to grind. I wish I could say that sites like this one were substantially better in this regard but I am not sure that is true either. (I am referring here to the Reviews NOT so much the other topics)

The real problem lies with the Anonymity. It's a two edged sword for sure.