Continuing my quest to have guys put the name of the provider and her general location in the title of the review

[Prolongus]

I don't want to add to their duties, either TinMan. But this and other omitted crap in reviews will continue until guys realize they won't get PA credit unless they comply.

I'll bet pfmtony would volunteer to help. I can see his posts (well, I can't; he's on Ignore) informing the guy he won't get credit. Plus, it'll give him a chance to actually CONTRIBUTE SOMETHING MEANINGFUL around here.

[vixstudios]

I agree with with Maya, for unsecured searchable pages there is plenty of data to use.. limit your location queries to provider advertising threads, most of them have signatures or location info in their posts...

more required review data fields will result in guys putting in wrong info b/c they forgot or don't care;

it would be a small fix to change provider pages to be database content pages.. i.e

if you want to review 'sally' , she would have a link on her profile, when you click that link to review her, it catalogs that review based on her stats, location, and whatever else;

no matter what the review title is, you can search based on key fields, not just 'text' searches.. you can also have reviews attached to the map, so you can thumb through reviews in any area you need. ....

vBulletin is extremely powerful and flexible, it can do all the above easily and more, you guys pay a premium for eccie service, but you kinda get shafted on amenities besides ros b/c there is no competition... the reviews are eccie's cash cow, real or fake, they drive traffic here.. the more posting rules, the less product they get

[rcg001]

I totally agree with putting the entire name in the title. This should be a no brainer and should be part of getting credit.

I do not use a smartphone to check ECCIE as I feel that it would be too slow and the size of screen is an issue, but for those who do I have a question. Are you doing this on company cell phones? I find that hobby phones are the slowest yet for internet as they tend to be the cheaper cell phones and the service provider (such as Tracfone) is not know as the fastest internet in the world.

[TinMan]

Nope. Private settings on personal cellphone.

[TexTushHog]

Originally Posted by ~Ze~

Wouldn't the name/email/phone numbers and all the other jazz that is IN the review come up in the search?

Let's say you check two or three forums on the board (Dallas, Austin, Houston) twice a week. Reviews mount up over that period of time. You have a short list of who you want to see, a long list of who you don't want to see, etc. for each city. You occasionally check the first list to make sure they're still providing good service. You also check the names you don't recognize to cull for inclusion on the first list. If there are three reviews per page without names, three pages per city, that's 27 pages of crap you've got to wade through.

[LazurusLong]

Originally Posted by vixstudios

I agree with with Maya, for unsecured searchable pages there is plenty of data to use.. limit your location queries to provider advertising threads, most of them have signatures or location info in their posts...

vBulletin may indeed be very powerful but like everything else, it is only as useful as the data that is put into it.

And you missed the point I made about Signature lines.

Signatures (lines) ARE NOT SEARCHABLE in vBulletin.

[Sir Lancehernot]

I've observed before that the Fort Words ad section has limited utility: http://www.eccie.net/showthread.php?t=668878

For those of us in Fort Worth, the review sections suffer from the same impairment.

Yeah we can search. But, depending on where you are, particularly if you're in eastern Tarrant County, you have to account for a whole host of locations and spelling/style preferences:
Fort Worth (the correct first reference)
Ft Worth
Ft. Worth
Cowtown
Funkytown
NRH
North Richland Hills
N. Richland Hills
HEB
Hurst
Euless
Bedford
H-E-B
Benbrook
White Settlement

I think I've made my point. I spend an incredible amount of wasted time clicking on reviews in the hopes of finding someone I might be able to see, only to see a location in North Dallas in the body of the review.

TinMan, your suggestion suffers from three flaws: First, management appears to be very reluctant to consider suggestions that might improve the utility of the site. Second, from my limited perspective out west, the Fort Worth contingent is viewed much as the proverbial red-headed stepchild; the board is exceedingly Dallas-centric. And third, as we saw in the those-who-don't-write-reports thread, there are a great many people here who couldn't give a rat's ass about making their reviews, if they write them, any more useful. I wish I could be more positive, but I think at this point I'd have to consider myself a realistic skeptic.

BTW, I used the Name/City/Recommendation format in my recent review of Nevaeh. I added a comment after that, which probably violates the letter of your suggestion, but I felt it was appropriate, and I'd already complied with the gist of your dea.

[mm-good]

There has to be a balance of what you want built into the system vs the community ado[ting a standard with guidelines.

I really do not want to have to do the "drop box, and scroll to the valid data" type of review process so am more than happy to support and adopt a Name/City/Recommendation format in the Title of the Review.

Search will not be better though till we can adopt some general standard for the examples cited ("Fort Worth" vs "Ft. Worth" , etc.)

Its a good start so why not get moving on it , Im in...