Pictures In Reviews Options

[dodge guy]

So I don`t know if this has come up before, but as I read some of the reviews here and when I check out the pics of campgrounds people have been too, I see how nice it is to put a place with a name. So, has it ever come up about being able to put a pic or 2 in a review for or against the reason to saty at a particular campground? maybe bad hookups, poorly laid out park (tight turns), maybe a very clean bathhouse or a very nice pool area, or any other obvious reason! I realise it would make the posting process a little more time consuming, but I think it would be a very helpful tool! just a thought while I`m sitting here checking out reviews and trying to picture what some people are explaining. otherwise this is a great site, keep up the good work!

[kcmoedoe]

It would be awfully hard to separate the wheat from the chaff if photos were included. A picture may be worth a thousand words, but with photoshop, various camera angles and the like, you can make a photo tell any story you want. It think it may skew the reviews rather than help.

[Meyer Camping]

It would be awfully hard to separate the wheat from the chaff if photos were included. A picture may be worth a thousand words, but with photoshop, various camera angles and the like, you can make a photo tell any story you want. It think it may skew the reviews rather than help.

I am not sure how a picture could be more slanted than a review could be. For example, I could write a review of a campground so as to give a wrong impression, either for good or bad. There is no verification process to make sure I am not lying. I am NOT saying there are reviews out there where people are lying or misleading on purpose. I AM saying that individual reviews can reflect facts that, while true, are not indicative of the norm. I think you can see that in the way certain campgrounds are rated quite low by some people and highly rated by others.

I think one possibility for adding pictures without having to deal with the storage and bandwidth issues would be posting a link to a Flickr account or some similar service.

[Denali]

I think one possibility for adding pictures without having to deal with the storage and bandwidth issues would be posting a link to a Flickr account or some similar service.

If this were my web site, I would be very reluctant to allow reviewers to include links of any kind in their reviews because I would have no control over the linked content.

Even if the link that the user included were to a legitimate picture of a campground, I would have no way of knowing when the content of that link might change to something I wouldn't want on my site--advertising, political content, or worse.

Ideally, the rvparkreviews web site itself would store users' pictures of campgrounds so they could be vetted before they are published and kept safe from that point on.

Shall we all chip in to fund more server space?