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Unlock the Power of STR Hub for Quality Reviews and Forums

17 Aug 2023 · 1 min

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Short segment from a YouTube video by Mark Simpson explaining that STR Hub is free to use but requires users to create an account. The account requirement enables features like writing reviews and accessing forums while using Captcha to reduce spam and low-quality content. The speaker contrasts the persistent, searchable forum/review content on STR Hub with ephemeral social-media answers that disappear from feeds within minutes.

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There is no cost to utilizing STR Hub, but we do ask users to create an account and that's for a couple of reasons. First of all, we do have a write a review feature where people can go in and leave a review on the companies that they're already using. We didn't want that junked up with spam and bots and just garbage. And so by having the ability for people to have to create an account and use the Captcha feature, it really keeps the site clean and actually quality content. So. So I know it's a little bit of a headache, but in order to make sure that the site stays quality, we do have that little account thing and then it also gives people access to the forum that we have. One of the downsides of using social media as a resource to answer, you know, to go ask those questions is that you ask a question in the feed. People are so generous, they take time to leave a genuine comment and make suggestions, but like 15 minutes later, that's gone.