Updated February 15, 2010

Any review posted on the Shop, Stay & Play website not following these guidelines is subject to immediate removal:

• Conflicts of interest. Your reviews should be unbiased and objective. If there's any hint of a conflict, please don't post the review. For example, owners shouldn't sing the praises of their own businesses or bash their competitors, and users shouldn't comment on their current or former employers.
• Second-hand experiences and hearsay. For example, you can't give a deli a bad review because your co-worker complained about his chicken salad. Your reviews must be about your personal experiences, not someone else's.
• Personal attacks. We can handle strong language, but there's no need for lewdness, hate speech and other displays of bigotry. Your friends probably know when you're being funny, but the millions of people who read reviews on Shop, Stay, & Play may not.
• Relevance. Reviews aren't the place for rants about a business's employment practices, political ideologies, or other matters that don't address the core of the normal customer experience.
• Plagiarism. Use your own words to tell us about your experience with a local business, but don't lift something from another website.
• Blank reviews. A review without text is useless and destroys your credibility as a reviewer. Take a minute or two and think of something useful to say – something you wish somebody else had written for you to read if you were looking up information about this business.

(These guidelines may be changed at any time without notice)