General Questions

What is Guidespot?
Guidespot is a collection of online guides created by a user just like you. Making a guide is simple, and gives you the freedom to create guides about anything and share them with the community, or privately with friends and family.

Is Guidespot Free?
Yes, everything on Guidespot that you use to make your guides is free.

Why Should I Use Guidespot?
Everyone enjoys sharing interesting information with others, and Guidespot is an easy-to-use non-techy way for you to make a visual guide on anything from hobbies, mugshots, and dating, to hot dog reviews, travel planning, and even party planning!

Who Uses Guidespot?
Guidespot is unique because the guides can be created and enjoyed by anyone. Guidespot is a community for the locals, city-hoppers, travel mavens, bloggers, attention-lovers, the planners, the jokesters, the business owners, and people who like to read the FAQs… you FAQ reader, you are the type of person that fits in perfectly within our community!

I Get What It Is, But How Do I Make a Guide?
Check out this guide if you want to learn how to make a guide.

I Need to Ask a Question or I Want to Share Feedback, What Do I Do?
Access The Guidespot Help Community Guide if you have questions about using Guidespot. Or, access The Guidespot Community Guide if you have website feedback for Guidespot.

Detailed Guide Questions

Why Can’t I Give a Thumbs Down?
We will be incorporating a new sliding-scale rating system in the next release.

What Images Can I Use on My Guide?
Images help balance a guide, and we recommend using photos relevant to your content. To make sure your photo stays in your guide, please follow the following guidelines:

• Please do not abuse photography copyright and use images that are not yours. Guidespot recommends that if you desire to use an image from a photo-sharing website, that you first email the photographer and ask for permission before publicizing the guide. Including a link to the photographer’s online profile is also recommended.
• Photography, videos, and links that contain illegal activity, which include, but not limited to pornography, drug paraphernalia, or any other illegal conduct is not acceptable and will be deleted.

I Can’t Find a Certain Business Listing, Where is It?
We try to have the most up-to-date business information, but sometimes we miss one. We recommend that you use the custom address object and insert the missing address into your guide.

I Found a Guide with Incorrect or Inappropriate Information, What Should I Do?
For incorrect information within the text of a guide, please contact the Guidespot author. For all other incorrect information, please send an email via the feedback link.

For inappropriate information, images, or videos, please flag the guide, which is located on the bottom right of every guide. Please use caution when flagging, as Guidespot relies on the its community to help moderate content. Flagging a guide will send an email to the Community Manager.

My Image Won’t Load, What is Going On?
Your image might be too big. To change the size, open up where the image is stored on your computer, and simply edit down the size of the image by literally making the image smaller, or by lowering the quality of the image.

What Happened to My Video, It Won’t Play Anymore?
Sometimes a video plays when you make a guide, but stops playing later.This issue has nothing to do with your guide, but is actually happening because the person who put the video online in the first placed decided that they no longer wanted to share the video on other websites. We recommend finding another video to replace it.

The Guide Basics

Check out this guide if you want to learn how to make a guide.

What is a Guide?
Think of a guide as your own visual list and multi-media story. Now think of Guidespot as an online platform where this creative knowledge-sharing converge and form communities around your interests.

Building a guide offers you the opportunity to combine text, links, photos, videos, addresses and maps all in one place without having to use the techy stuff to get it done. Organize the layout of your guide by dragging and dropping the contents to your desired locations.

Do I Have to Be an Expert on Something In Order to Write a Guide?
No way! Guides are made by authors just like you, and include thoughtful insights and humor on your favorite things and locations.

What Should I Write About?
For inspiration, cruise around Guidespot and
find guides that interest you. Then, write about something similar, or get inspired and try an entirely new guide idea! Anything goes here on Guidespot, so make a guide on anything you would like to share. It’s your guide, so you make the rules!

Who Can See My Guides?
Depending on your own personal preferences, creating a guide gives you the freedom to publicly share the guide with the community, or
privately with friends and family.

What is a Community Guide?
Creating a Community Guide offers you the opportunity to create a guide that any other member can contribute to, inviting collaboration, and empowering the Guidespot community.

Sounds Cool, Now How Do I Make a Guide?
Making a guide is simple, and all you have to do to get started is quickly Log In or Register and then start building your first of many guides.

Privacy

Hey, What Do You Do With My Information?
Guidespot does not share any of your personal information.

Share

How Can I Invite My Friends and Family to Join Guidespot?
First, impress them by sending them a guide via the email link located on the top of every guide, and then, tell them to sign up!

This is Cool! How Can I Share a Guide on the Other Websites I Hang Out On?
When viewing a guide you will notice a link that says, “Bookmark.” If you click on that link a flyout will appear with even more sharing options, allowing you to share a guide on multiple social outlets such as Facebook, Digg, Stumbleupon, reddit and more.

We highly suggest that you share your own guides and your favorite guides with your other social networks, and help spread the Guidespot love. We rely on our community to continuously help us grow, so thank you!

Profile

How Do I Verify My Guidespot Account?
After registering, you should have received an email activation with directions on activation. If you did not receive this email, check your spam or junk folder just in chase! If you still can’t find it, have Guidespot resend your activation email via the Log In link. If you are still having trouble, please send a quick email via Feedback, and we will help you out.

How Do I Change My User Name?
At this time, once you declare your user name when you initially sign up with Guidespot, you can’t change or edit it. If it is an emergency, like you spelled your name incorectly and don’t want to look like a goober, please contact us via the Feedback Link, and we can do our best to help you out.

How Can I Privatly Message Another Guidespotter?
We understand the need to privatly message other Guidespotters, and look forward to incorporating this social feature into Guidespot in the coming months. In the meantime, please use the shout out feature or Community Guides to communicate.

Membership

How Do I Cancel My Membership with Guidespot?
At this time, there is no way for you to cancel your membership on your own. No, we are not trying to be sneaky, because we do plan on adding it soon to an account management page, but it is not available yet. We would hate to lose you, but if you must leave us, (and want your life to be a little less exciting and meaningful) please simply send an email via the Feedback Link, and we will help you out.