It would be a shame to have a review in regular chat get lost. It's a good resource for people also.
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Thread: Local Business Review Section
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08-17-2009, 11:06 AM #1Eatin' Wings
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Local Business Review Section
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08-17-2009, 11:20 AM #2Sweet Smell of C16
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i do agree, as ive searched for the "Good Resturant" or Good places to eat thread when hungry and looking to take a nice little ride!
"If you keep feeding a lion, then run out of food, you're the food.."
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08-17-2009, 01:14 PM #3meh
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good thinkin
+1
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08-17-2009, 07:17 PM #4Newbie
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sound like a good idea. I think thier should be a sticky thats just for formatted reviews that are detailed with a bussiness name, rating scale, pro's and con's. Then you can have the rest of the section open for threads that are for descussions.
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08-17-2009, 08:01 PM #5Wasted talent.
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Great idea but it would NOT work as intended.....
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08-17-2009, 11:25 PM #6Ol' School
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^^^it would just turn into arguing. And people who had a bad experience there will drown the thread with tears of butthurt sorrows.
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08-18-2009, 11:36 AM #7I'll touch your apex
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I don't think it would work because, for whatever reason, many of our members feel that thye can say whatever they please on a forum rather than actually take ownership of the situation at the returaunt (or whatever it was).
Case in point - we would hear stuff like this
"THAT PLACE SUCKS! I'D NEVER GO BACK THERE AGAIN!"
rather than -
"The service wasn't awesome - the waitress forgot my beer, and I decided to be a douche bag and not treat her like a human, so I didn't say anything, didn't tip her, and now and bitching and moaning here. But ... it would have been easier to remind the incredibly busy waitress that she forgot my beer."
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08-18-2009, 12:29 PM #8Ol' School
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^^^
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08-19-2009, 09:37 AM #9Eatin' Wings
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How about this...
There is a section, someone can go in and write a review either positive or negative...thread locked. No bickering. If someone wants to write a review of their own they certainly can.
It works perfectly fine on Zilvia, which is arguably a harsher environment then BCM, and also has 50,000 members. We've been doing the review section over there for years.
http://zilvia.net/f/businesses/
This being a local larger forum would make the section that much more useful. There just needs to be guidelines laid down.
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08-19-2009, 02:54 PM #10Wasted talent.
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IF guidelines were followed it would work, but it has been proven time and time again that people don't like to follow guidelines. This suggestion was brought up about 6 months ago and as you can see nothing came of it. Like I said before, it's a great idea......
Originally Posted by Exitspeed
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08-20-2009, 10:44 AM #11Eatin' Wings
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That sucks that people on here are so unruly that a section that would be totally useful can't work. Yet it can work on other sites with 10's of thousands of people.
Lame. Oh well. It's not my site.
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