Barely worth discussing
I stand by what I have had to say about CitySearch.
If you are censored from writing an honest review what is the point of writing at all. Knowing that all of their reviews may not fully reflect the actual quality of the restaurant leads me to write them off.
As I have been ranting about them here and feuding with them over email. I do feel obligated to post their final* repy to me about why I was not allowed to discuss my experience:
Hi Matt,
Thanks for contacting us with your concerns. Regarding your review, we ask our users not to mention potential health code violations. Your review mentions bugs, roaches and bad oysters, all of which are health code violations.
We’re more than happy to host negative reviews, but we want them to adhere to our guideline, which you can find here: http://national.citysearch.com/saved/html/my_citysearch/terms_of_use.htm
l. Scroll down to ‘Posting Reviews on Citysearch.com‘ and you should see them.
We hope you’ll revise your review with the recommend changes so we can put it back on the site.
Thanks, and feel free to contact me with any questions or concerns.
Best,
Joe
Citysearch User Review Monitoring Team
So, yes, they do have a monitoring team, but still honesty is not at the top of their agenda. I understand the argument that anyone can log in and write a slanderous review, but anyone can write in and write a glowing review as well.
*final because I have no intention of fighting over this any more, I am simply writing CitySearch off and deleting them from my bookmarksÂ

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