Who would be asking about restaurants in Gary, Little Falls, and Minot in the same afternoon. I think we have a restaurant troll, lets cook him for dinner.

Smell,
I agree. I was compiling my list when you were posting.

hope I haven`t been taken in on this thing....do we have a "person" compiling info again to use in their livelyhood....if so let`s be on the up and up..i`d still gladly offer info.......NOT!!!!!!.......me thinks we smell a rat!

If that's the case, then I've been screwed over twice in one afternoon! Maybe I *do* need to take Gingko Biloba, as my husband suggests! ;-) I didn't even make the connection. I answered the one about Gary, because I grew up near there and the one about Sault Ste. Marie, because I've been there.

Smell, you may (and probably most likely) have a valid point. It ticks me to think that my honest and wanting-to-be-helpful posts are helping some person compile a best restaurants list.

No more answers from me on that kind of question!

Yeah, I'm sure this is a commercial venture. After all, there's a huge market out there for a best restaurants list for Minot.

Better a restaurant troll than one about body odors and some of the other silliness we get around here by these yahoos who LIKE stupid posts.

Not a troll, but probably an aspiring travel writer. Which is worse?

Probably Tony Hughes, that obnoxious Brit who thinks he's going to write a travel book about all the nondescript little places in America that everyone is missing. He was openly trolling for information here for a while, with multiple posts per day, all with the intention of compiling Fodorite info so he could sell it back to us in the form of his book! Not.

not necessarily agreeing that it's tony hughes, just that i double checked lots of those restaurant ????? and most have a similarity: short, and they're visiting relatives and want to take them out and so on. me thinks we have been had!!!!!

When Tony posts, he uses his own name. Too much of a narcissist not to.

Two theories on the suspicious restaurant posts:

1) It is a school project where the students research obscure American cities, or
2) It is some sort of travel article, not on the cities in question, per se, but on the quality of travel boards and their respondents. (Note the obscurity of the cities in question (Minot! East St. Louis!!!! and the good grammar and polite, though repetitive, phrasing) As this is my stronger theory, we should feel proud of our responses.

I am the troll. Fodors wanted to dull-down the board and eliminate all non-travel posts so I came up with a counter. Toss in posts about restaurants in obscure or uninhabitable places in the country. Watch me the next time I strike.