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Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Housekeeping A Critical Overview of The Stranger

Posted by Arthur McCavendish on Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 9:00 AM

We're observing Slog silence from now until 11 a.m. while we have an editorial meeting, but look—we made an entire paper's worth of stuff for you! Here's what Arthur McCavendish has to say.

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Posted by Fnarf

on January 30, 2013 at 9:09 AM

Ah thanks for the trolling.

"The wisdom of everyman reviewers...infinately [sic] more useful..." No it is many times shit. I'm all for aggregation when it works but ask authors if they think the Amazon review system is working. Ask Jaron Lanier about it.

Posted by dirac on January 30, 2013 at 9:27 AM

Hey, you linked your admin backend URL.

Posted by Joe Szilagyi

on January 30, 2013 at 9:41 AM

I enjoy the recipe and hotel/retail reviews. The recipes because many times the "review" is actually a reworking of the actual recipe, and the hotel/retail because someone is always complaining about how an employee is "rude" because they didn't give the answer the reviewer wanted to hear. Also, sometimes they inadvertently get hilariously graphic about stuff like housekeeping and food service.

Posted by Catalina Vel-DuRay

on January 30, 2013 at 9:55 AM

The Stranger: Unpopular With Frightened Shut-Ins

Posted by shabadoo on January 30, 2013 at 10:04 AM

Completely agree with @4. I love the complaints about service in Seattle. The people are obviously cheap, and were trying to scam. Every review on Yelp is either 1 star or 5 stars.

Posted by biffp on January 30, 2013 at 10:12 AM

What is this Yelp thing you keep yammering on about?

I thought they went away last decade.

Posted by Will in Seattle

on January 30, 2013 at 10:59 AM

http://www.yelp.com/biz/the-stranger-sea… #hrid:RCPkvVixNFjDOFi7SiuK2Q

You should check out this crazypants yelp review.

Posted by wtf is that guy smoking on January 30, 2013 at 11:53 AM

Er, how about this.

http://bit.ly/ WBImOR

Posted by he really really doesn't like black people and the Stranger on January 30, 2013 at 11:57 AM

Keep bragging about that new Sodastream and the only thing that's coming to your door are irate protesters.

http://sfist.com/2012/12/27/cliffs_varie…

Posted by Dougsf on January 30, 2013 at 12:15 PM