Qype - Live and tell

You beady-eyed Qypers might have noticed that there’s a category section on your reviews now. This means that you can help other people find your places even easier. You know how it is. Sometimes you just really want a Pan-Asian restaurant in London Bridge and nothing else will do.

So do fill this bit out. You’ll get extra points soon once the catagories are checked by the Qype elves. After all, you don’t want to find that your posh frock bistro is actually a greasy spoon do you?

You can also tag more than one category. Which means that if you can’t decide if somewhere is a cafe or a bar or a pub you can tag them all. And we suggest you do. Then the Qype searching system will be even better and everyone will love your reviews and give you great feedback and we’ll be very impressed with you and think you’re brilliant.

You might be able to tell from the title of this post that we’re excited. Well you will be too in a minute. Look at this picture. It’s a ninja! Isn’t he cute? Bet you’re thinking ‘I wish I had a ninja’. Well you soon will do, lovely Qypers.

Just get to 1000 Qype points and a lovely l’il ninja toy will be high kicking his way to you. You get other great stuff too (yes, more booze), but we’re guessing you’ll be more excited by the cuddly master of the darks arts. He’ll be rustling about in his packaging just itching to get out so you can ninja people while you’re sat on the sofa. Siany is under the impression that Qype HQ has done nothing but play ninja battles ever since they arrived.

We also reckon they’ll come to life when you’re not looking, like in Toy Story, but that makes them even cooler. So get qyping and you too can have your own little cuddly toy too.

Frankly, this is even better than the trip to Barbados that’s still up for grabs. Wow, we never thought we’d say that.

Siany has been browsing Qype today while drinking tea and noticed that some of you don’t put many tags in your reviews. Do!!! Go and tag them! Tag them all like crazy tagging Qypers! Then more people are likely to stumble over your reviews and give you points! And points generally mean brilliance in the form of goodies in the post.

Siany tagged one of her reviews ‘loo smell’ and ‘pigeon poo’ and one rather strange person found the review through being nosy about these tags…

Let’s have a look at some other silly tags from you guys… click on them! see where they go!

Marmosets, idiots, inebriating, enchanting, etc!, candy colour bags, chavvy, diabolical!, dungeons, soft porn, the kiss-me-quick style promenade ,

See, look at all those new places you’ve discovered! So go get tagging! Silliness welcomed. Especially if it’s about marmosets and dungeons.

We’re kind to our newbies here at Qype. So kind, we want to shower you in booze. Not literally though, you understand. But we would like to send you presents to say thank you for joining us.

So it’s simple, if you’ve got between 0-25 points at the moment, just get to 250 points by the end of the month and a lovely keg of beer will be winging it’s way off to your door. Hurrah!

There’s loads of things you can do to get points. Upload some photos, do some reviews of new places, write some exciting new guides about your area.

Better still, invite your friends and get them to join in the fun. Then you can all get beer and have a great big bank holiday party on us. Simple.

Don’t worry, we’re not just nice to newbies… everyone else can drink all the free booze at the party tonight.

Flickr image from Brian U’s photostream.

How do you score your reviews? Are you a harsh reviewer? Or are you more forgiving? We realised yesterday that the way you guys see our scoring system changes from Qyper to Qyper. Obviously one star is pretty easy, so is five stars, but it’s the bit in the middle that seems to cause a bit of variation. So to kick off the debate, here’s how Siany reviews her places:

So there you go. Are you more harsh than us? Do you have a different way of scoring your reviews? Or does it just depend on whether you’re typing before your morning cuppa? Tell us in the comments.