Freelancer hasn't been there.
Dude, your Texas chick freelancer hasn't been to the places she is describing. I already wrote an entire two paragraph letter about the chick, that was deleted when I joined the get satisfaction crew, but the gyst of it is her facts are incorrect, her specifics are general and she is bullshitting her way through this.
My thought about this site are that it is written by people who have experienced and want to give others the experience of a place. She hasn't experienced the places she is writing about (at least not the ones I have been too.) she is writing marketing speak.
Many of your other writers are much better at creating an image of a place without resorting to using brochures from the places or historical data found on wikepedia.
Thanks
JT
example: in her trip about Gruene Hall, she says that regulars sit by the front door ready to talk---The regulars in Gruene don't go to Gruene Hall anymore except on Saturday afternoons or Sunday mornings (do you hang out in your towns tourist trap?) No, they hang out at the bar down the street. The only people that hang out at the entrance to Gruene Hall are the band members before their gig or the bartenders before it gets busy.
My thought about this site are that it is written by people who have experienced and want to give others the experience of a place. She hasn't experienced the places she is writing about (at least not the ones I have been too.) she is writing marketing speak.
Many of your other writers are much better at creating an image of a place without resorting to using brochures from the places or historical data found on wikepedia.
Thanks
JT
example: in her trip about Gruene Hall, she says that regulars sit by the front door ready to talk---The regulars in Gruene don't go to Gruene Hall anymore except on Saturday afternoons or Sunday mornings (do you hang out in your towns tourist trap?) No, they hang out at the bar down the street. The only people that hang out at the entrance to Gruene Hall are the band members before their gig or the bartenders before it gets busy.
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Inappropriate?Hi JT--
Thanks for taking the time to really read our trips and comment.
I understand what you are saying. And, I agree wholeheartedly--the trip that you wrote about Greune did a much better job of conveying the spirit of the place (it certainly made me want to go there). I demoted the other trip and made yours the Trazzler trip.
We don't assign specific trips to writers, rather we ask them to cover what they know firsthand--and we mean it. I do think we've gotten better at eliciting the best writing from our freelancers over time. One thing is for sure: we don't want people writing about places they haven't been. However, that can turn out to be a rather subjective proposition.
When we visit a place while traveling or just passing through, it's quite different from really knowing the place as a local. There's a lot of potential for misinterpreting local cultural nuances. We think there is room for both on Trazzler--but this isn't the first time that I've replaced a trip written by an interloper in favor of one written by someone with more acute local knowledge (in fact, I've demoted a few of my own).
Thanks again for taking the time to write. We appreciate it.
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Thanks. I didn't write my comment to get my trip moved up--just to let you know that the problem I was having frustrated me. I am flattered that you liked my trip and hope that as I write more you may feel that my writing is something you are looking for on a more permanent basis. Thanks. -
Thanks. I didn't write my comment to get my trip moved up--just to let you know that the problem I was having frustrated me. I am flattered that you liked my trip and hope that as I write more you may feel that my writing is something you are looking for on a more permanent basis. Thanks.
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