We keep the neighbourhood board
NeighborhoodBizGuide is the board by the café door, for a whole city: where the good dentist, the reliable plumber and the bakery everybody queues at get written up. Look a place up by city and neighbourhood, see how people rate it and contact it directly. No ads, no sponsored spots, no paid plans.
Fair and square
How the board is ranked
Star ratings on their own reward places with hardly any reviews: two 5-star ratings would beat hundreds of 4.7s. So each place starts as if it had 10 ratings of 3.5 stars, and its real reviews move it from there. The more people who rate a place, the more their rating counts.
- 4.7 stars from 300 reviews4.66
- 5.0 stars from just 2 reviews3.75
The first one goes higher on the board.
A place with no reviews yet stays at the 3.5-star starting point. Ties go to the place with more reviews. Money never comes into it.
We only put up a city list once it has at least 5 places on it, and a neighbourhood list once it has 3.
House rules
Review rules
Reviews only help if they're honest, so each one is checked against these before it goes up.
Been there yourself
Write about places you've actually used, and about what happened to you.
Stay on topic
The service, the price, the people. Leave out unrelated arguments.
Be kind, even when it went wrong
No threats, insults, harassment or hate.
Keep it private
No phone numbers, home addresses or full names of staff or other customers.
No reviewing yourself
Owners and staff can't review their own place, or a rival's.
Nothing in return
No reviews for discounts, gifts or money, and businesses mustn't offer them.
We take down reviews that break these rules, but not reviews that are simply unhappy, and nobody can pay us to remove one.
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