Sorry having a terrible time trying to get http://www.ratemyisp.ie/ratings/ back up and running.
I had some minor issues switching to a new design and then some worse issues upgrading php and wordpress versions.
And now have major issues importing previous ratings from a backed up database, I have all the reviews, just not the ratings from almost a 1000 people!
Hopefully I’ll figure it out soon enough and can put everything back online.
There’s a total overhaul of this site in the pipeline. Nearly done on the redesign. In the meantime, here’s a small but useful improvement on viewing the ratings that I haven’t yet added to the site apart from the links in this post. You can view various ratings by category, useful for seeing how ISPS cater in your area etc.
Let me know if you’ve any suggestions for categories.
So I added a blog, this is the first post. I’d always intended for rate my ISP to be self maintaining / user generated. And I’m far from an expert on ISP’s, so I didn’t think there’d be much point in adding a blog. But I thought it’d be nice to have somewhere to make the odd announcement about the site. (Incidentally the ratings system is a Wordpress blog; each ISP is a blog post / the reviews are just comments with ratings.)
ANYWAY - there are times, like today, when I find myself wishing there was a blog on the site for the sole purpose of naming and shaming companies who try to cheat. do you know it’s actually illegal for a company to pose as a member of the public on a site like this? It’s happened a couple of times now.
Today someone left a glowing review of their ISP (one currently at the bottom of our chart ). And they left bad reviews of everyone else. And they were all left a minute after each other, all from the same IP address, and all with the kind of sloppy punctuation people tend to use when they’ve written several fake reviews in a row. All deleted now.
I will be naming and shaming the company next time.
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