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andytyneandwear
andytyneandwear Club Member Posts: 115
edited March 2016 in Certificated Locations #1

When you submit a site review how long does it take before it appears in the site reviews section and why would it not be published if it was all positive?

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  • catherinef
    catherinef Forum Participant Posts: 647
    edited March 2016 #2

    I thought it was immediately?  I wrote one when we returned from Passage Farm on Monday afternoon  and it was online yesterday.

  • Oneputt
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    edited March 2016 #3

    Immediately as soon as you press save.  Perhaps you were timed out or some glitch with IT.

  • SteveL
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    edited March 2016 #4

    i would agree with Oneputt. Happened to us a couple of times. Now always do them in a text editor and cut and paste. Spell checker works better there too.

  • brue
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    edited March 2016 #5

    Sometimes they are slow to load and if you press submit again multiple reviews will appear. But the time out could be the problem as others have said.

  • Longtimecaravanner
    Longtimecaravanner Forum Participant Posts: 642
    edited March 2016 #6

    I too have lost reviews because of the time out problem so also do a cut and paste job now so that I am on the club site for the minimum time.

  • TheAdmiral
    TheAdmiral Forum Participant Posts: 506
    edited March 2016 #7

    Well, we will all have to type with two pinkies, not one

    Admiral

  • Longtimecaravanner
    Longtimecaravanner Forum Participant Posts: 642
    edited March 2016 #8

    Well, we will all have to type with two pinkies, not one

    Admiral

    Do you mind? I don't wish to brag but I can use two fingers on each hand.

  • harryb
    harryb Forum Participant Posts: 1,536
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    edited March 2016 #9

    Not more problems associated with "time out" problems.

    When is it going to end.

    Typed with three finger on left hand and two on the right.

  • nelliethehooker
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    edited March 2016 #10

    Not more problems associated with "time out" problems.

    When is it going to end.

    Typed with three finger on left hand and two on the right.

    When the new system comes on stream, of course.Wink But when that is nobody is saying, as perhaps they don't really know.

  • andytyneandwear
    andytyneandwear Club Member Posts: 115
    edited March 2016 #11

    i carefully timed my input 14 mins 34 secs, no review published

  • harryb
    harryb Forum Participant Posts: 1,536
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    edited March 2016 #12

    Immediately as soon as you press save.  Perhaps you were timed out or some glitch with IT.

    Andy, I have just compiled a site report so thought i would time how long it would take to upload. 

    Looking at Oneputt's quote above mine didn't load because i had obviously been time out whilst wriiting it. If that happens you are taken back to the log in page but it is then to late because the report has gone. You have no choice but to start again if
    you want to submit the report. Or if like me, you don't bother because of frustration over this silly "timed out" issue. No doubt somebody will come on here and say do the report in Word and copy/paste it but in this day and age why should you. If the system
    was half decent it would realise you were working and this silly fault wouldn't occur.

     

  • brue
    brue Forum Participant Posts: 21,176 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    edited March 2016 #13

    When you write a review check out the details about adding a review (when you have clicked on the bit to start a review.) This states you will have 30 mins "on the page" to fill in the details, it's surprsing how quickly this time is used up. I don't copy
    and paste anything on here as I try to keep things short but you might need to write down the points you want to cover first as an aid.

    I wish there were more CL reviews, many don't get reviews at all.

  • harryb
    harryb Forum Participant Posts: 1,536
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    edited March 2016 #14

    I wish there were more CL reviews, many don't get reviews at all.

    .........and maybe there lies he answer as to why. 

    People will get fed up having their work wiped out without warning because of this sytem. Maybe if there was a pop up warning given like in many other sites (eg banks) the situation wouldn't arise. 

  • Oneputt
    Oneputt Club Member Posts: 9,144 ✭✭✭
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    edited March 2016 #15

    I do most of my reviews on my main computer as I haven't found a way to touch type on the tabletSurprised

  • Takethedogalong
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    edited March 2016 #16

    I think you could be right Brue about lack of reviews. I try and do a review for every CL we stay on, and we add around half to a dozen new ones each year, but because of the time out it does make things much more difficult, to the point I must admit where
    I have given up. I leave more reviews on the other forum I use now, Caravanchat, than I do on here. Can also leave photographs on there as well, plus of course reviews for none Club or CL sites. The other thing is people can comment and ask questions about
    the place after the review is posted, which can sometimes prompt you into adding some important details. I hope for the sake of CL owners, who need all the help they can get with advertising that posting a review is made easier on here, once  promised update
    happens.Happy

  • harryb
    harryb Forum Participant Posts: 1,536
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    edited March 2016 #17

    I think you could be right Brue about lack of reviews. I try and do a review for every CL we stay on, and we add around half to a dozen new ones each year, but because of the time out it does make things much more difficult, to the point I must admit where
    I have given up.

     I hope for the sake of CL owners, who need all the help they can get with advertising that posting a review is made easier on here, once  promised update happens.Happy

    My sentiments exactly. I too hope this silly glitch is wiped out.

    By the way TTDA I have seen some of your reviews when looking at cl's

  • Takethedogalong
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    edited March 2016 #18

    Hope they were useful.Happy We seldom pick one that doesn't suit us, and even if we did, would make the most of it! I usually have a browse
    through whatever reviews there are for a CL new to us, and check out UKcampsites as well, as quite a few CLs are on there as well. There are a few fellow CT reviewers who share our likes and dislikes of certain aspects, so I have come to trust what they write! 

  • brue
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    edited March 2016 #19

    The time out really doesn't bother me too much and I hope it doesn't put reviewers off having a go at writing one. The obvious answer is to keep the review reasonably short.Smile

  • cyberyacht
    cyberyacht Forum Participant Posts: 10,218
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    edited April 2016 #20

    Timeouts suggest to me that reviews need to be more succinct.

  • harryb
    harryb Forum Participant Posts: 1,536
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    edited April 2016 #21

    If the fault had been sorted a long time ago then short reviews wouldn't be necessary. Looking at reviews on other websites sites, they are not short so I don't think the length should come into  it.

    Just fix the problem. 

  • cyberyacht
    cyberyacht Forum Participant Posts: 10,218
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    edited April 2016 #22

    A couple of hundred words should be sufficient for a review. People don't want to plough through 'War and Peace'.

  • andytyneandwear
    andytyneandwear Club Member Posts: 115
    edited April 2016 #23

    A couple of hundred words should be sufficient for a review. People don't want to plough through 'War and Peace'.

    .Just under a hundred words 14mins 34secs on page. Hardly War and Peace 

  • Oneputt
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    edited April 2016 #24

    Of course there are probably a lot of reasons why people don't write reviews from don't want to share my favourite to can't be bothered and all reasons in between.  I would rather write what I believe to be an honest account of the
    site than post in the stories section Surprised

  • andytyneandwear
    andytyneandwear Club Member Posts: 115
    edited April 2016 #25

    May have cracked it, on the fifth time of trying logged in on windows 7, typed it in and it flew and was accepted staight away, maybe the glitch is on Windows 10..By the way it was Holly Tree Cottage. Upper Denby  W. Yorks