Changes To Review Submittals

I've been on this forum a number of years, and my understanding and observation is that the hard working admins are "wise" to the "tricks" used to pump up a park and do their best to keep those reviews out of the database.

 

QUOTE(sass @ Aug 22 2012, 05:40 PM) [snapback]30762[/snapback]

I actually came to gripe about park owners/managers/employees/family/friends and pets posting reviews of their parks. Seems I've been beaten to the punch.

Welcome aboard sass!
We too have discovered 'less than honorable' reviews of RV parks out there. Started using this site, as folks like us, CAN send a message to the admins, to report what looks like an obvious ringer-review.

Have actually seen reviews vanish, when it became obvious a park owner (or his pet, :lol: ) posted gushing reviews.

So drop a dime (yikes...guess you can tell I grew up in another era), to the admin. Let's keep these reviews as real as possible!

Cheers! B)

 

QUOTE(Webmaster @ Jul 4 2006, 09:18 AM) [snapback]4533[/snapback]

We have found it necessary to add some more security to the website when it comes to approving reviews. All members will now have to submit a minimum of three (3) different campgrounds before any of their reviews will be posted on the website. If you have not seen a recent review you submitted posted on the website that is because it is in a holding queue until the three review quota has been met and then they will automatically transfer to the approval queue and will then be posted. Any member that has already posted three or more will see no change. Sorry we have to do this but some campground owner's/employees think they don't have to follow the rules of this website and continue to try to post great reviews about their campground. The "great" campgrounds will never have to do that as they will always receive positive reviews from their customers. We have caught several and will continue to do so to try to keep this website as it was intended.




A lot of bogus reviews are easy to spot. They are glowing, and nonspecific. I always check all the reviews of a park. :angry:

 

QUOTE(Webmaster @ Jul 4 2006, 09:18 AM) [snapback]4533[/snapback]

We have found it necessary to add some more security to the website when it comes to approving reviews. All members will now have to submit a minimum of three (3) different campgrounds before any of their reviews will be posted on the website. If you have not seen a recent review you submitted posted on the website that is because it is in a holding queue until the three review quota has been met and then they will automatically transfer to the approval queue and will then be posted. Any member that has already posted three or more will see no change. Sorry we have to do this but some campground owner's/employees think they don't have to follow the rules of this website and continue to try to post great reviews about their campground. The "great" campgrounds will never have to do that as they will always receive positive reviews from their customers. We have caught several and will continue to do so to try to keep this website as it was intended.



Wait a minute. Why is everybody down there saying 5 reviews when this post says 3 reviews? I did 3, luckily I had 3 this year. The season is over now, and there obviously won't be many more. Hopefully that was enough?

 

QUOTE(SharonW. @ Oct 11 2012, 06:11 PM) [snapback]31530[/snapback]

Wait a minute. Why is everybody down there saying 5 reviews when this post says 3 reviews? I did 3, luckily I had 3 this year. The season is over now, and there obviously won't be many more. Hopefully that was enough?


Where did you see a reference to requiring 5 reviews? The requirement has been 3 as far as I know since this thread started 300 plus posts back.

 

When this rule was first begun you had to submit 5 reviews, but shortly after that, the number was changed to 3. To this day members are still talking about having to do 5 reviews even though it was changed years ago. To try to stop the confusion we changed the number in our original post (which SharonW quoted) from 5 to 3, but I see that has not worked well either. (SIGH!)

 

Ahh! The fog clears...

 

First, let me say I love this site. We are in the middle of a long trip to visit friends and family and have stayed at numerous campgrounds since our departure in August. I have used this site to make my decisions on where we stay along the way.

I found your site so helpful, I decided to join and do reviews on the places we have stayed. I did a few reviews and found only one thing lacking. Is it possible to add a "laundry" choice on the amenities list? I find that an important choice in selecting parks during extended trips. (We've been out 2 1/2 months.) I will also find it very important when I go full time within the next year or two.

Thank you for the hard work on such a wonderful site.

 

Probably should have run a focus group before making this decision and not after instituting an overall not well received response.

 

There doesn't seem to have been a huge outcry in my opinion, in the six years the rule has been in place.

 

Should have known this 3 location thing prior to filling out the crap and hitting the post button. Screw this site. I am gone.

 

Love how people read the rules and agree to them and then get angry after they post.

 

This is pretty lame when you refuse to post reviews that really help other RVers find a decent site. We may not DO 3 reviews in a year but if I am willing to take the time to submit a review and you won't even consider it .... then I'll never be back. I'll find another RV review site that is relevant and I will suggest to each park we visit that they use it. Why would I waste time doing a review where it's not appreciated. Dumb ... plain dumb.

 

For you that don't want to help others I will say that there is a reason for the 3 posts (not 3 in a year) and that is to keep dishonest owners or grumpy campers from signing on to make fake posts.

 

QUOTE(Gold Miner in Red @ Oct 18 2012, 01:15 PM) [snapback]31633[/snapback]

Should have known this 3 location thing prior to filling out the crap and hitting the post button. Screw this site. I am gone.


Bet he is now just as happy about this site as he was about the park he was preparing to skewer. Don't really see reviewing three parks as a major problem. It is, after all, a Campground and RV park review site. Camping and RVing tends to imply that you are going places and seeing things. Not sitting in one place for a year. And, it sure appears that single posts do make it the site eventually. Seems like whenever I see a terrible review, the reviewer has no other reviews. Apparently it can and does happen.

QUOTE(gritz @ Oct 18 2012, 02:46 PM) [snapback]31635[/snapback]

This is pretty lame when you refuse to post reviews that really help other RVers find a decent site. We may not DO 3 reviews in a year but if I am willing to take the time to submit a review and you won't even consider it .... then I'll never be back. I'll find another RV review site that is relevant and I will suggest to each park we visit that they use it. Why would I waste time doing a review where it's not appreciated. Dumb ... plain dumb.


So you visit enough parks that you recommending another review site (that actually doesn't exist as far as I have seen) will make a difference, yet you cannot review all those parks, just this single one, that I am sure you want to vent your frustrations at. Other than the entertainment value, most of the users of this site want information on both GOOD and bad parks. Only reviewing ones that you felt were bad doesn't help most of us. We are looking for GOOD places to stay and if you won't take the time to tell us where those parks are, we probably don't need you to come back.

 

QUOTE(Gold Miner in Red @ Oct 18 2012, 12:15 PM) [snapback]31633[/snapback]

Should have known this 3 location thing prior to filling out the crap and hitting the post button. Screw this site. I am gone.

Wow, that will bring the site to it's knees!

Only 172,706 other reviews are online at this site, so expect to see a big impact from Gold Miner in Red's departure!

 

QUOTE(Gold Miner in Red @ Oct 18 2012, 12:15 PM) [snapback]31633[/snapback]

Should have known this 3 location thing prior to filling out the crap and hitting the post button. Screw this site. I am gone.



If "crap" is all you have in your review, I don't need to read it.

 

QUOTE(kcmoedoe @ Oct 18 2012, 04:43 PM) [snapback]31637[/snapback]

it sure appears that single posts do make it the site eventually.


Let me explain how this can happen. Sometimes a new reviewer submits their 3 required reviews which meets our criteria. However, if two of those reviews must be deferred that leaves only one review posted. Thus, it appears that he has submitted only one review when in fact, he really did submit 3.


By the way. we will gladly return Gold Miners' and gritz's membership fee if they will fill out the crap paperwork to request a refund.

 

kcmoedoe, as usual you knocked it out off the park.

Texasrvers, love the part about the refund

 

Changing the subject a bit, I noticed today a review submitted by another user that clearly is referencing the wrong campground. The user has submitted only 2 reviews, and those 2 look legit, but I can tell the user is referencing the wrong campground (because I visited that campground just an hour ago, and because I am currently camping IN the campground the user *meant* to reference.

The review given is only a 5-star review ( which in my opinion is pretty much about the right rating for the campground I am in, and which is clearly the campground he *meant* to submit on ) and it is unfortunate because the campground he actually named is nearby and is more on the order of 8 stars, based on my impression when I visited THAT campground an hour ago and also based on other user's reviews of that campground which are posted here.

If a moderator would like to contact me by private email, I will be glad to give him the names of the 2 campgrounds I am talking about, along with supporting data as to why I am sure the other user made an error in referencing those 2 campgrounds. It would be good, for the sake of BOTH of the 2 campgrounds, to correct the incorrect campsite reference.