RV Park Reviews Reliable or Not?

wbwood wrote:

westernrvparkowner wrote:
If you were contacted by someone from an RV park you wrote a bad review about, why would you assume they got your information from RVparkreviews.com? Most likely they got it from their own database. Most of us are not stupid, we often know who writes a review, both positive and negative. Make a reservation via an online system? Presto, the park has your e-mail information. As for the reviews being accurate, I score it about 67%. You need to toss out the beyond glowing and the beyond bad. What is left is generally pretty close to the truth.

While I would somewhat agree, but if a park has 20 spaces filled every night, are they going to email everyone that was there during that time that did an online reservation and left an email address during the reservation? I think the site only lists the month the person was there.

And if I read the OP posting, he said someone else had sent him an email, said the park manager was nice and to contact the park manager. Therefore the park manager didn't send the email. To me, it sounds like someone that has access to approving the postings on the site.

Usually, if the review has some basis in reality, there is a tipoff as to who wrote it. First they tell you what their camping rig was. That will narrow it down from the one hundred sites to about 25. Then there will often be a clue as to whether or not they stayed for a period of time. This will eliminate a number of other rigs. If they were posting a negative review, and there was a problem guest that met the other criteria, bingo! we have a winner. If it was a positive review and they mentioned something where the park went out of the way, again, easy to figure.
Somehow I just doubt that RVparkreviews.com had any hand in sending you an e-mail. This forum has a large sample of people who have sent reviews, and you haven't seen another affirmation that rvparkreviews.com has ever done anything similar. If the review you submitted contained factual misrepresentations, and someone pointed that out to the review site's administrator, they may remove that review and they state that in their policies. And I suppose that since they have a staff that reviews all submittals, it is possible that one of the staff posted a review, and the head honcho found it offensive and removed it. (they do have a policy they follow that forbids personal attacks, slanderous comments and the like)