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Interesting (Reply to this comment)
by coldsteel7
I'm guilty...too!
Once this promotion is over, I was planning to go back and update some of my early travel reviews and tie them together into more comprehensive reviews. As you mentioned the RULES and STANDARDS were both very different eight years ago. I have been planning to go back but haven't yet. I DID NOT however, plan on moving reviews from cities to the a new SAP suggested restaurant. Megu is gonna hate me, but I guess what you say makes sense.
PS...dont' rate my old reviews vertically...give me a chance to move them hehehe.
PPS you forgot popsrocks who has written some great travel reviews lately.
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Feb 21 '08
4:59 am PST
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thanks so much (Reply to this comment)
by ifif1938
for the mention...at first I thought I was going to be chastized for some of my early reviews in the Paris category which are restaurant reviews...whew...:) I love the fact now that we can have links added and like you mentioned it would be super if that happened to restuarants in International travel...fortunately I was able to get a few categories added in France and moved a few two years ago...
You make quite a few good points in this review and once again I really do appreciate your kind words
My very best to you
Barbara
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Feb 21 '08
6:52 am PST
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Re: thanks so much (Reply to this comment)
by adriennefoster
Writing a review to chastize other Epinionators might make compelling reading, but I'd like to think I'm not that obnoxious. Unfortunately, Paris has not been in my line of sight yet. At the moment, I'm working on Denver.
I was trying to think of current members who provide examples of what I'm talking about, and your name was one of the first that came to mind.
Keep on writing.
Adrienne
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Feb 21 '08
12:59 pm PST
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Re: Interesting (Reply to this comment)
by adriennefoster
Too late. I've already gone through Chicago and you had a few there, if I remember correctly. If you'd like me to reconsider my rating after you rework any of them, please send me the URL.
Yes, Popsrocks is another excellent travel reviewer, but listing everyone becomes too excessive when it doesn't serve my central point.
Thanks for the rrc.
Adrienne
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Feb 21 '08
1:10 pm PST
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Re: Re: Interesting (Reply to this comment)
by coldsteel7
No biggie on Chicago...if the review deserved a lower rate...it's all good. I don't want those old ones showing up anyway...I actually left them that way a long time ago to remind myself that I was clueless when I first came here.
I intend to update the old ones and notify anyone who gave it an H or SH that it has been redone. Thanks for considering doing that once I'm done. I will probably start on them next month.
John
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Feb 21 '08
6:54 pm PST
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Agree... (Reply to this comment)
by chelledun
100%. Call me anal, but I like everything in its proper place, not all lumped into one catch-all category. If nothing else, it annoys me because it messes up the overall star rating for a city to have a bunch of random restaurants and things reviewed there.
Michelle
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Feb 22 '08
3:59 pm PST
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hey there Adrienne... (Reply to this comment)
by sleeper54
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Hmmm.
Made me go check one of my rare travel reviews, one written in Feb '05. You had indeed rated it . . .so we will just leave it right there.
But I do see your points about being too focused on one thing or using easily found info without personal experience. To be honest my review could use more 'personal experience'. That said, I doubt I would write many reviews that I wrote three years ago the same way today.
Anyway . . .props for the vertical rating. Sometimes a single rater can not make much of a difference but every rate helps.
...tom...
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Feb 22 '08
11:08 pm PST
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Re: hey there Adrienne... (Reply to this comment)
by adriennefoster
That's certainly true. A single rate doesn't mean much when the writer already has 30 VHs, but the one lower rate always does seem to outshine the others. I always hate it when it's never explained why, so I usually like to unless the account is inactive.
I would like to think none of us write or rate the same way we did two or three years ago. Experience should improve our skills. I didn't become very aggressive about the personal experience component until I started reading the London page. With over 300 reviews posted there, it seemed like 100 of them were telling me I can go to the Tower of London, Tower Bridge, and Westminster Abbey without giving their personal impressions. Like, duh. On a region that is not as well known or has few reviews, I'm inclined to be more lenient in my rating.
Adrienne
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Feb 23 '08
10:31 am PST
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Re: Agree... (Reply to this comment)
by adriennefoster
In the long run, posting reviews under off topic subjects doesn't do anyone any good. Epi HQ will move those reviews if the member won't and I have brought several to their attention as I rated.
Since you have mentioned that Chicago is one of your favorite cities, you might appreciate that several have been cleared off that topic.
Adrienne
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Feb 23 '08
10:43 am PST
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Re: Re: Re: Interesting (Reply to this comment)
by adriennefoster
Hey John.
The only ding I could find was a review on the House of Blues. I think the Epinions database is at fault on that one. It is a chain restaurant and yet I can find more than one listing for it based on different locations without including them all. They should all be in one place.
I think you would have been hearing a lot more from me if I had been planning a trip to New York City, but I don't see that happening for a while yet.
Adrienne
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Feb 23 '08
11:54 am PST
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I'm probably... (Reply to this comment)
by cr01
a little softer than you, but I certainly agree with your sentiment. It's certainly how I try to rate with the "just in's"
If the epinions database and search engine were better, then I too would be rating more older reviews "off-topic". As it stands, I do worry about sending them off to oblivion, so as long as they are reasonably "on-topic", I tend to let 'em lie!
Thanks for your valuable observations Adrienne.
Chris
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Mar 13 '08
5:12 pm PDT
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A great public service! (Reply to this comment)
by smiles33
I was surprised to see one of my very old travel reviews pop up with a comment/rating alert. While I was caught off-guard by the OT rating, I agree that it makes sense and think you're performing a great "public service" for the Epinions community. I had assumed that many of my old reviews that were placed in general categories were not "searchable" given the problems with the Epinions search engine, so I didn't bother going through and SAPing all the categories for the 40 reviews I wrote back in 2000 and 2001 on places/items that couldn't be SAP'ed.
I will try to find time to do that soon, as I agree with all your points about how it doesn't benefit the Epinions community or the general public that comes here to find something buried in the wrong category.
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May 05 '08
7:56 am PDT
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Interesting info (Reply to this comment)
by texas-swede
Cool to see this review since we have been discussing this lately. I wish I had read this review earlier.
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Oct 18 '09
10:17 pm PDT
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