re: The board is missing something without the restaraunteurs

i fully understand where chicken is coming from.

my point has more to do with this:

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As for Rag, I don't get him. It's like he's trying to patrol the food and drink board in order to get his junior admin badge or some shite...

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I feel for them because it must be hard to see their place talked about (both positive and negative) and they can't respond. I know, it comes with the territory, but I'm sure it's pretty hard

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yeah, it is...especially when someone is just asking for hours and no one else responds.

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Why can't they operate incognito?

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I think that is part of the problem though.. Potential advertisers can just look at the board and say I will just act like a food critic and make sure I throw my own place a bone all the time. So why pay for advertising. At least with Opie and others if they did that we knew that it wasnt right and could call them out on it. Now anyone can just come on here and say how George's has a new special and its awesome and they get free advertising without us knowing its the owner saying it.. If Opie said that shite he would have gotten the post whacked.

The best way I have seen to police this on boards is to allow owners to acknowledge a place they own but ONLY in posts that require their input or mention their place specifically. At least that way we would get most of the owners out in the open. If we know who they are there is a better chance of getting them banned than if they are incognito and seeking free advertising.

I do enjoy spotting a restaurant owner/employee. One of my favorite was the drunken fish person. They would start a thread once a week saying how incredible the sushi is. Gave me a chuckle when people would jump on them.

Looks like this thread got the anchor.

yeah, b/c one poster posted a bad experience with a worker there and how they messed up on his cake...



that was classic.

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when you most certainly have other posters, incognito, pimping their places left and right...

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Since you posted this, please name one example of this.

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i have been accused of trolling the boards and trying to advertise for free when i never started a thread about the place or pimped how good our food is or any of that.

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I can't understand how you don't see interacting with users about your business as being a form of advertising.

Zilla, I ran it by two members of the Money Board Steering Committee and they agreed with my actions.

One of them wants you banned.

But Opie posts for more than just his place too. His avatar and name may be advertising and I would def agree that it should be changed. But most people wouldnt know that Gugich was associated with a place. What I was referring to was forcing the owners to ONLY post in threads directly soliciting their help or concerning their place. It adds value to this site to be able to report an issue about a place and to have the owner be able to respond to that issue which in many cases may be misleading. If they want to post all over the site then have a diff account setup for that purpose that is not affiliated with a business.

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Those people are sniffed out pretty quickly

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I recall seeing this happen a few times with:
Sakura
South of Philly
Little Caesars
Drunken Fish

Being called out by posters on this board.
But I would never know if someone were pimping Louisiana Lagniappe, Stella! or Johnny's pizza or some other bigger places here since its common to recommend these places. I know someone accused me just the other day of working for Louisiana Lagniappe. So is making baseless accusations and attacking other users the proper way to handle this? RAing everytime we suspect someone in violation seems a bit much as well. Its a bit hard to run a Food Board without people being able to talk about a business. But its a dilemma Im glad I dont have to solve.. I was just saying how some really huge message boards handle the same problem. I know many boards encourage owners to establish themselves on a board as an expert in a particular field but are restricted from using their buisness name as their user name or many other guidlines. I know cruisecritic.com does a very good job at this and they would have the potential to have many violators in a tourism forum.

Dude, I had no idea you were in the restaurant business prior to the Food board opening. Why s that? Again, a business owner interacting on a forum with potential customers as the business owner is ADVERTISING. You have no right to respond to any questions about your place, since it is known you are a business owner posting on this site. You made the mistake by making it known that you were a business owner on here.

Plus, you admitting that you advertised elsewhere really rubbed me the wrong way.