Club features on reviews
shadowcat
Atlanta suburb
Is VIP status the primary reason for customers to do reviews? Is it hurry up and get it done? This morning I looked at reviews for 2 clubs that I am highly familiar with and noticed once again that there was much misinformation shown in the features section of the reviews. One showed a club with pool tables that were removed over a year ago. The other showed a full menu for lunch/dinner in a club that doesn't even have a kitchen.
It seems that not a lot of time and thought is put into submissions. And how many clubs show the club hours. I know when I did a road trip 2 years ago I wasted my time going to a club in the afternoon based on it showing the club open only to find it closed. And of 4 clubs listed in one city none had their hours shown and I found out the hard way that they are all closed on Sundays.
And while I'm on the subject, what good is showing a drink price? I have been to clubs where you could get a beer for $2.50 during happy hour and later pay $13 to buy a dancer a drink.
I wish I had an answer on how to improve the quality of information but I don't.
It seems that not a lot of time and thought is put into submissions. And how many clubs show the club hours. I know when I did a road trip 2 years ago I wasted my time going to a club in the afternoon based on it showing the club open only to find it closed. And of 4 clubs listed in one city none had their hours shown and I found out the hard way that they are all closed on Sundays.
And while I'm on the subject, what good is showing a drink price? I have been to clubs where you could get a beer for $2.50 during happy hour and later pay $13 to buy a dancer a drink.
I wish I had an answer on how to improve the quality of information but I don't.
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I think drink prices is good information. Even though different drinks have different prices, the price of a beer or a glass of wine or a martini is worth knowing.
mets1986 - we have different experiences when it comes to nude clubs. Everyone that I have been to included nude lap dances. I have heard of some that were nude on stage but the bottoms stayed on for dances.
As for detail in the writing I struggle with that myself. I've left multiple reviews for some clubs and I always make sure in my first review of a club to go into a lot of details but then if I leave a later review I view it as more of an update so I leave out the basics. However when I do that I always question myself if I really should leave out the basics because that doesn't help newbies to the club. It's a catch 22, you want to update the club but you don't want to spend paragraphs going over the same ground again.
w.r.t. club hours – most reviewers don’t go SCing that often to begin with nor frequent the same club enough to know the exact hours of operation – so I can see most reviewers leaving that blank unless it’s someone intimately familiar w/ the club.
I do the same thing – but on subsequent reviews of the same club I always put a statement near the top to refer to my mm/dd/yyyy review for club details.
It's my understanding that nothing you check or uncheck while submitting a review has any effect. It's only when you click 'Update' before making changes that anything gets updated. This isn't explained anywhere in the interface, which probably has a lot to do with all the inaccurate info.
Things could probably be improved by just leaving all the checkboxes off the review submission page and adding a bit of guidance to the 'Update' button.
I think it could be improved by using the feature selection checkmarks in reviews kinda democratically. Something like, if most people say nude dances are available the box is checked. A little clarity in the options might help too...
I always found that part of the review a pain but would still go through the motions of checking/unchecking the obvious ones.
Since I don't travel I just like to read the details and already know the club features as most around me are the same.
I'd suggest making that part of the review optional in a way you have to specifically initiate it so only ones who want to complete it will. That way people won't simply go with the default to continue incorrect info.
A losing battle!
And if you have been to several clubs on a trip, it can all get confusing, one tit looks like another.
Yes, there are some sloppy reviews out there, but I think in general, Americans are becoming very poor writers.
Actually I usually write my reviews in a word processor, so it can check spelling.
sc wasn't talking about reviews, rather the features above the review, BYOB, beer only, full bar, topless, nude, etc. Those can be updated by us. I try to keep the clubs I visit current, but sometimes they seem to go back to the old data.
Also, some of those features cannot be updated by us, but if you explain what needs to be changed in the text box it is usually changed quickly. For example, I have done this to have some clubs changed from topless to bikini, or "mixed" to black, etc.
Most club websites are more dated than the TUSCL info. :)