Tripadvisor

Question: I stayed at a place in Palm Springs that I didn't like and posted my review on TripAdvisor. I received a letter from an attorney threatening to sue me for libel if I did not remove my negative review within 14 days. I have contacted others who have written reviews for this establishment and they also received the attorney's letter. When I contacted TripAdvisor, I received an e-mail that said the site took the threats seriously, but they didn't even ask for a copy of the attorney's letter.

THE hotel review website TripAdvisor.com this month added "wiki" functionality to its site with a new feature called TripAdvisor Inside. A wiki website allows visitors to add or edit content, as with Wikipedia, perhaps the best-known such site. Wiki will make it possible for visitors to TripAdvisor to contribute original content to an online guidebook. Anyone with more current or additional information can then edit and update it.