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somtam2000 admin mahout Posts: 5175 Located in: Global Village	#1 Posted: 7/5/2009 - 20:32 Hi all, We've just opened a new feature to allow Travelfish members to add their own opinion on destinations, and whether they're worth a visit or not -- like the accommodation reviews, but for individual destinations. For example, if you've got something to say about Sukhothai in Thailand, you head to the Sukhothai section, scroll down a little, and fill out the form you'll see. Here are a few pointers: a) For now, all comments are moderated before they appear. b) We're hoping that Travelfish users will have lots of useful, interesting information to share. But long-winded rants probably won't make the cut and we reserve the right to edit wordy pieces down to the length they merit. c) Please post only your own work. Don't waste your time (and ours) by cut and pasting information from another source into Travelfish. We're looking for original opinions and thoughts on specific destinations. Please, please, please respect other's copyrights. d) While you're free to make as many submissions as you want for a specific destination, you're also able to edit your submissions in the Member Centre. So if you want to have a single missive, or a series of shorter thoughts, either method may work for you. e) Don't make stuff up! f) It's simple -- there's no HTML, meaning no bold, italics, links and so on, at least for now. We may add in bold, italics and links in the moderating process. g) No spam and no promotional URLs. We realise that this will provide a considerable temptation for business owners to try and plug their own businesses and websites -- don't. Travelfish members can add a website address to their profiles (in the Member Profile section) -- that is where they belong and please leave it at that. h) Ownership -- nothing has changed in this regard, to quote from the Terms when you signed up: "Your comments on our listings may be used by Travelfish in the future. By adding a listing comment to the site, you give us a non-exclusive, royalty-free, international licence to use your postings in anyway that we see fit." This represents substantial new ground for Travelfish, and we just wanted to be clear on a few points before everyone gets started. But it's not all boring stuff! Given that we'll be reading every submission, we thought we'd have a COMPETITION -- not just a competition, but a bunch of them! ONCE A WEEK, we'll award either a Flickr Pro Membership, or the equivalent in Travelfish Guides (ie US$24.95 worth) to a submission we think is really great. There is no small print, no catch -- all you need to do is write about somewhere and you'll be entered into the competition. (If nobody has written anything inside of a week, we may stretch it out to a month!) Ask away if you've got a question, and if you're looking for a sample of how it looks -- you can see the page on Sangkhlaburi. ------------------------------ Siem Reap and Angkor Wat on your iPhone

exacto under-employed Posts: 1210	#2 Posted: 8/5/2009 - 03:46 sweet. i'll look forward to using this on my next trip later this year. plus, i can't wait to see what people have to say about Vang Vieng! cheers. Helpful? 0
somtam2000 admin mahout Posts: 5175 Located in: Global Village	#3 Posted: 8/5/2009 - 07:02 Thanks exacto -- look forward to reading your thoughts. You're always welcome to wax lyrical about places from your previous trips! We've had our first submissions, Dongphuvieng on Ko Rattanakosin and beachgirl of Sukhothai and Ayutthaya -- great stuff all three, please keep them coming. Helpful? -1 ------------------------------ Siem Reap and Angkor Wat on your iPhone
somtam2000 admin mahout Posts: 5175 Located in: Global Village	#4 Posted: 9/5/2009 - 08:52 Another new submission, this by new member australasianBFs on Ao Thian Ok on Ko Tao. Keep them coming! Helpful? 0 ------------------------------ Siem Reap and Angkor Wat on your iPhone
swag tuk tuk driver Posts: 189 Located in: Australia	#5 Posted: 12/5/2009 - 11:43 Somtam, just finished a detailed submission on Koh Lipe after logging on but tried to submit and was told to log in again, so submission lost mmm Swag Helpful? 0
somtam2000 admin mahout Posts: 5175 Located in: Global Village	#6 Posted: 12/5/2009 - 12:55 Swag -- bugger! I think the site automatically logs you out 24 minutes after the last page you opened, so I guess perhaps it took you 25+ minutes to write your entry -- sorry about wasting your time! I'll try to figure out how to lengthen the logout time, but in the meantime (if you're up to spending another 25 minutes of your time) perhaps write it, then login and cut and paste it in -- or just open another window every now and then to keep you logged in. Apologies! Stuart Helpful? -1 ------------------------------ Siem Reap and Angkor Wat on your iPhone
swag tuk tuk driver Posts: 189 Located in: Australia	#7 Posted: 13/5/2009 - 05:42 Somtam, no worries will get around to redoing it, doesn't help doing it at work so obviously went over the 25mins swag Helpful? -1
somtam2000 admin mahout Posts: 5175 Located in: Global Village	#8 Posted: 13/5/2009 - 12:25 Another great entry, this one by swag on Thailand's Ko Lipe -- thanks swag -- especially as you had to type it out twice! Helpful? -2 ------------------------------ Siem Reap and Angkor Wat on your iPhone
somtam2000 admin mahout Posts: 5175 Located in: Global Village	#9 Posted: 17/5/2009 - 21:21 Thanks to Archmichael for a great report on Vietnam's My Khe Beach -- good to see some Travelfishers getting a bit off the beaten track! Helpful? 0 ------------------------------ Siem Reap and Angkor Wat on your iPhone
somtam2000 admin mahout Posts: 5175 Located in: Global Village	#10 Posted: 18/5/2009 - 08:57 It's just been pointed out to me that a week had elapsed before Archmichael's entry came in, so they're in the next draw. In the meantime, swag wins either a complimentary Flickr Pro membership or -- $24.95 worth of Travelfish Guides -- will be in touch by email to sort it out. Thanks all & keep them coming! Helpful? 0 ------------------------------ Siem Reap and Angkor Wat on your iPhone
somtam2000 admin mahout Posts: 5175 Located in: Global Village	#11 Posted: 18/5/2009 - 15:22 We've just had another new submission, by beachgirl (now our top contributor) on Kanchanaburi . Thanks! Helpful? 0 ------------------------------ Siem Reap and Angkor Wat on your iPhone
Jon_Mak_Mak adventurer Posts: 464 Located in: United Kingdom	#12 Posted: 20/5/2009 - 19:12 Hey Somtam, I have been writing reviews of some hotels an places and have had them published on Tripadvisor website. Thing is, they are usually quite long (my khao san review was long) and if i wrote another review it wouldnt be any different. So basically my question is, Will you accept the same reviews for travelfish? :) Helpful? 0 ------------------------------ Check out my Thailand blog and photos. Its a work in progress.
somtam2000 admin mahout Posts: 5175 Located in: Global Village	#13 Posted: 20/5/2009 - 22:49 Jon, First question: What are you doing posting stuff on TripAdvisor when you could be posting it on Travelfish!!! ;-) I wasn't sure of the answer to your question as it really revolves around "ownership". So I did some digging around and according to the TripAdvisor website, they own your reviews now, not you, so they're not really yours to republish anymore! From the horses mouth: "After you write a review, it becomes the property of TripAdvisor." And so I'll ask the question again, why are you posting anything on TripAdvisor! That said, all our submissions are edited by yours-truly and Mrs yours-truly before they surface on Travelfish, so we'll be sure to give anything you submit a good scrubbing through the detripadvisor machine. I can't imagine they'd get too excited about that -- but who knows. But we would LOVE to get you contributing! As an aside, regarding ownership, from the get go, when we started Travelfish ... wayyy back all those years ago ... anything that gets posted on Travelfish you retain 100% ownership of. BUT you grant us a "non-exclusive, royalty-free, international licence to use your postings in anyway that we see fit". That means, we can take your missives, wrap them around a coffee cup and flog the cups for $100 a pop and not give you a penny -- but you could do the same ... and, ahhh, you could post your missives wherever you damn well wanted to -- because they are, after all, your missives. And on that note, I'm going to bed. Helpful? -1 ------------------------------ Siem Reap and Angkor Wat on your iPhone
somtam2000 admin mahout Posts: 5175 Located in: Global Village	#14 Posted: 21/5/2009 - 08:16 Another submission in -- BruceMoon on Luang Nam Tha in northern Laos. Includes a video and map link! Keep them coming! Helpful? 0 ------------------------------ Siem Reap and Angkor Wat on your iPhone
DLuek adventurer Posts: 291	#15 Posted: 21/5/2009 - 18:10 Hi, I just wrote a review of Phimai, but after hitting "Submit", the page refreshed but the submission was not there. I had copied the text just in case of a problem and my subsequent 3 attempts to submit the copied text also didn't work. And then I threw my computer out the window in frustration so I'll need you to reimburse me for that too. (kidding:) By the way, nice to see Travelfish expanding (Malaysia). Helpful? 0
somtam2000 admin mahout Posts: 5175 Located in: Global Village	#16 Posted: 21/5/2009 - 21:51 Hey DLeuk, We received it -- three times -- so I hope the computer bounced off the window and back into your lap! Will post it up tomorrow -- late now. Helpful? 0 ------------------------------ Siem Reap and Angkor Wat on your iPhone
DLuek adventurer Posts: 291	#17 Posted: 22/5/2009 - 11:16 Ah, I forgot that you look them over first... I'm used to the hotel reviews and forum posts that show up immediately. My apologies. Helpful? 0
somtam2000 admin mahout Posts: 5175 Located in: Global Village	#18 Posted: 22/5/2009 - 13:12 DLeuk - no apologies necessary! Our latest entry, for the laid back ruin town of Phimai in northeast Thailand is now online, courtesy of DLeuk. Thanks! Helpful? 0 ------------------------------ Siem Reap and Angkor Wat on your iPhone
Jon_Mak_Mak adventurer Posts: 464 Located in: United Kingdom	#19 Posted: 23/5/2009 - 15:40 Hey Somtam, I don't really know why I reviewed a load of stuff on Trip adviser. I guess it was because I came across it when I was researching Budapest recently and just thought that some of the reviews/comments on Thailand were a joke so I just got stuck in! Never really thought about doing it on TF and again I don't know why. :( BUT, I will be now!!! :) The reviews I wrote are my thoughts, and saved on my computer and I am also going to be using all of them on my own blog so Trip Advisor can blow me if they have a problem with that. So, I if you want I can send you all my reviews and you can edited them to comply with Travelfish all you like. Where shall I send them? Helpful? 0 ------------------------------ Check out my Thailand blog and photos. Its a work in progress.
somtam2000 admin mahout Posts: 5175 Located in: Global Village	#20 Posted: 24/5/2009 - 18:56 Two more submissions in -- from Jon_Mak_Mak on Ayutthaya and Bangkok's Khao San Road -- suffice to say Jon's aint a fan of KSR! Thanks for the submissions and keep them coming! Helpful? 0 ------------------------------ Siem Reap and Angkor Wat on your iPhone
exacto under-employed Posts: 1210	#21 Posted: 25/5/2009 - 23:49 somtam, hey, i know you are busy writing code for the edit function on the forum and all, but i have a suggestion for a possible future upgrade to these new place reviews if you are interested. i've noticed that on many websites there is a chance to review the review, or more specifically, to vote if the review was useful or not. i thought that as the number of reviews grows, it might be a useful tool to help sort out the more useful reviews from the others. i'd imagine you'd want us to be logged in so that there was some accountability to the voting. :-) anyway, if you think that might be useful in the long term, have fun with it. if not, no worries. thanks. Helpful? 0
somtam2000 admin mahout Posts: 5175 Located in: Global Village	#22 Posted: 26/5/2009 - 09:18 Hi exacto, Yes a rating thing is planned -- I'm just waiting to see what the take-up is before I add that in. Re the edit thing for the forum, that's probably not going to happen. Primarily because spammers make "normal" posts, then go back and edit in spam stuff later on -- makes it very difficult for me to keep on top of what is a growing problem on the site. Cheers Helpful? 0 ------------------------------ Siem Reap and Angkor Wat on your iPhone
somtam2000 admin mahout Posts: 5175 Located in: Global Village	#23 Posted: 5/6/2009 - 08:37 Great entry in from brucemoon -- on Umphang in northern Thailand -- a terrific and very under visited (by foreign travellers anyway) spot. Keep em coming! Helpful? 0 ------------------------------ Siem Reap and Angkor Wat on your iPhone
somtam2000 admin mahout Posts: 5175 Located in: Global Village	#24 Posted: 8/6/2009 - 08:23 Two more submissions -- by MADMAC on Mukdahan and Nakhon Phanom -- both cities, off the tourist trail in Thailand's northeast. Thanks! Helpful? 0 ------------------------------ Siem Reap and Angkor Wat on your iPhone
somtam2000 admin mahout Posts: 5175 Located in: Global Village	#25 Posted: 14/6/2009 - 13:50 Just added a bunch of new reviews -- including Pai Udon Thani That Phanom Yasothon Don Dhet Pakse Champasak and Vientiane -- keep em coming! Helpful? 0 ------------------------------ Siem Reap and Angkor Wat on your iPhone
chaos23 backpacker Posts: 11	#26 Posted: 22/6/2009 - 01:06 will do, the last ones where from me :) Helpful? 0
somtam2000 admin mahout Posts: 5175 Located in: Global Village	#27 Posted: 29/6/2009 - 09:29 Just got in a terrific entry by elocin on Phnom Penh and SBE on Bangkok's Taling Chan floating market -- well worth a read -- thanks! June entries finish soon! Helpful? 0 ------------------------------ Siem Reap and Angkor Wat on your iPhone
somtam2000 admin mahout Posts: 5175 Located in: Global Village	#28 Posted: 1/7/2009 - 18:37 June's winner is SBE for her addition on Taling Chan floating market. It was superb to have a user write about a place we -- despite our rhetoric! -- are yet to cover. SBE reminded us that it still pays to get off the beaten track even in well-trodden countries like Thailand. SBE, I'm assuming you'll be after the Flickr upgrade, but pls drop me an email to confirm. Thanks -- and lets see some more for July! Helpful? 0 ------------------------------ Siem Reap and Angkor Wat on your iPhone
somtam2000 admin mahout Posts: 5175 Located in: Global Village	#29 Posted: 7/7/2009 - 13:04 Another entry in, this from BruceMoon on Vietnam's Mai Chau -- keep the entries coming! Helpful? 0 ------------------------------ Siem Reap and Angkor Wat on your iPhone
somtam2000 admin mahout Posts: 5175 Located in: Global Village	#30 Posted: 3/10/2009 - 09:19 Ok, been a while between posts in this regard -- apols. So we're doing this now on a monthly basis -- winning entry gets a Flickr Pro upgrade, the equiv (US$24.95) in Travelfish Guides or a Travelfish Tshirt. September's winner was tezza for his entry on Ko Samui which gave a good wrap on a number of beaches and places to stay. Thanks! Helpful? 0 ------------------------------ Siem Reap and Angkor Wat on your iPhone
bedu motodop Posts: 21	#31 Posted: 25/11/2009 - 12:27 Vientiane in Lao PDR. Well, for a quiet place there is still a lot to see and do. Hundreds of hotels and restaurant choices, temples and markets galore. Be careful about getting a 'bargain' iPhone as they are copies and the battery doesn't last long, as well as some of the functions of an iPhone not being available. If you're going there from Thailand for a visa run, many of the problems that were there at the embassy have gone and it's quite a quick process. They were still giving out free double entry tourist visas as of August 2009. The Lao people are a lot more friendly and less 'Lets rip the tourists off' than some Thais are in many resort towns. Food is cheap, freshly made and tere are many choices, from French cruisine topizza to Thai/Lao food. A nice, if a little expensive cafe, is Joma, not far from the Thai embassy and next to a swimming pool complex. Hotels as anywhere, you get what you pay for. Lao Ong Dao is 600 baht and not far from the Thai embassy, clean, TV, air con, hot water shower, towels and soap. Check out the temples, they are so old, but still amazing. Helpful? 0
christay2009 adventurer Posts: 269 Located in: United Kingdom	#32 Posted: 29/12/2009 - 03:00 I added some information to Phanom Rung, it wasn't a review as such but more concerned transport options. It does not appear to have made it onto the page, yet it hasn't been deleted by travelfish either. I think i may have submitted something else too but can't recall at this minute. Just wondered what was g'aan on chris Helpful? 0 ------------------------------ http://theviewfromtheeast.blogspot.com
somtam2000 admin mahout Posts: 5175 Located in: Global Village	#33 Posted: 29/12/2009 - 15:56 They're all up now -- including yours. Just delayed due to distractions with the iPhone thing and Christmas etc. Helpful? 0 ------------------------------ Siem Reap and Angkor Wat on your iPhone
christay2009 adventurer Posts: 269 Located in: United Kingdom	#34 Posted: 31/12/2009 - 21:59 no worries. it was my first time attempting to add anything, just wondered if there was a spanner in the works i may add some more if i remain unemployed Helpful? 0 ------------------------------ http://theviewfromtheeast.blogspot.com
somtam2000 admin mahout Posts: 5175 Located in: Global Village	#35 Posted: 3/2/2010 - 09:46 I've just turned on a bunch of submissions -- thank you everyone. As promised, Tshirts, Travelfish guides or iPhone Apps to the following: christay2009 for Phanom Rung Exacto for Ko Maak encoredupoulet for Ko Sdach and tezza for Kuala Perlis Will be in touch by email re what prizes you want. Cheers Helpful? 0 ------------------------------ Siem Reap and Angkor Wat on your iPhone

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