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Come now Cathy, let's see you on Yelp - it can only make the reviews better, right? Yes, it is not LTH, but it is a fun 'community', at times.
YourPalWill wrote:TonyC's rather humorous response to the Spoon Thai detractors can be found here:
http://www.yelp.com/user_details?userid ... dj3Gdu6OYg
dddane wrote:utoh, this thread has made it onto the yelp radar with a yelp thread of it's own..
http://www.yelp.com/topic/T7fv8eEv-3fVj ... NSu_yl68-w
I see pad thai and pad See ew in your review. In 19 reviews, pad Thai/See ew is mentioned 8 times. As sheep, you have no right reviewing this restaurant. Stand outside Spoon and watch me eat.
David Hammond wrote:I'm sure we would have pulled a line like "Talking to you is like trying to fuck jello. Except jello has a higher IQ," but that's probably because, as another Yelper mentioned, "LTH is full of grumpy old dudes and nazi mods."
It's interesting, too, that most posters in this Yelp thread clearly see that LTH provides higher quality food discussion, but that such is not actually the goal of Yelp.
David "Achtung, Baby" Hammond
jonjonjon wrote:I think LTH would be more fun with personal attacks
David Hammond wrote:honestly, name-calling seems to lose its charm rather quickly, don't you think?
David Hammond wrote:Intriguing outsider perspective of LTH -- and I'm surprised that some of the stuff that goes up there stays up there.
I'm sure we would have pulled a line like "Talking to you is like trying to fuck jello. Except jello has a higher IQ," but that's probably because, as another Yelper mentioned, "LTH is full of grumpy old dudes and nazi mods."
It's interesting, too, that most posters in this Yelp thread clearly see that LTH provides higher quality food discussion, but that such is not actually the goal of Yelp.
David "Achtung, Baby" Hammond
David Hammond wrote:Yelp seems to attract a younger audience, and it probably addresses the needs of that audience better than LTH, and even for grumps like me, it's nice to know there's a place to go where it's cool to simply hurl invectives at one another for the amusement (though obviously not the edification) of fellow yelping posters.
ChiBran wrote:acknowledge that each has it's own place and audience among the vastness of the Internet.
jonjonjon wrote:However I'll go one step further and say that it meets better the needs of the Chicagoland area than LTH, because it doesn't dismiss the more "bourgeois" restaurants out of hand. It caters to what people actually eat, rather than what people "should" eat.
gleam wrote:David Hammond wrote:honestly, name-calling seems to lose its charm rather quickly, don't you think?
I disagree, you old fart.
David Hammond wrote:Could you define "bourgeois restaurant"?
jonjonjon wrote:David Hammond wrote:Yelp seems to attract a younger audience, and it probably addresses the needs of that audience better than LTH, and even for grumps like me, it's nice to know there's a place to go where it's cool to simply hurl invectives at one another for the amusement (though obviously not the edification) of fellow yelping posters.
Well, as a far-more-frequent yelper than LTH'er (although I still read up LTH every so often) I can say that what is strikingly different between the two sites is how much more relaxed it is on yelp. When posting on LTH, I always feel the need to be super-careful because I know that posts are often pulled (with no room for debate) and if posting about a restaurant that's been covered already, other posters are wont to chime in with links to another, years-old other thread, rather than initiate discussion in a new setting.
It seems that the community on LTH self-polices its own idea of a perfect LTH garden, where anything out of alignment or expectation is removed. Yelp, on the other hand, is completely ad-hoc, allowing the community to vote out stuff that is deemed negative.
The younger crowd is probably true, and I think that you're right also in saying that it meets the needs of its community. However I'll go one step further and say that it meets better the needs of the Chicagoland area than LTH, because it doesn't dismiss the more "bourgeois" restaurants out of hand. It caters to what people actually eat, rather than what people "should" eat.
jonjonjon wrote:
It seems that the community on LTH self-polices its own idea of a perfect LTH garden, where anything out of alignment or expectation is removed. Yelp, on the other hand, is completely ad-hoc, allowing the community to vote out stuff that is deemed negative.
The younger crowd is probably true, and I think that you're right also in saying that it meets the needs of its community. However I'll go one step further and say that it meets better the needs of the Chicagoland area than LTH, because it doesn't dismiss the more "bourgeois" restaurants out of hand. It caters to what people actually eat, rather than what people "should" eat.