Someone needs to make a Twitter-like microblog platform for reviews with character-count limits. Reviews of all kinds, not just of restaurants. One site with lots of micro-content prongs. Feel free to steal this idea. It would be a good mobile site. A micro city magazine. Yeah! I’d read that.
So many Yelpers write New Yorker-length essays in lieu of straight-forward reviews that I have stopped reading reviews and dread looking at the site at all. I used to use it to find new places to eat but now it just annoys me. Why bother writing more than 50 words on any restaurant, really? Unless you are Gourmet, or the Times. Or Jonathan Gold, because he is kind of a perfect writer. Don’t do it online.
Maybe I just need to turn my boring Twitter feed into that myself.
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Glad to see I’m not the only one who finds those lengthy reviews insufferable.
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