Recs are recommendations. They are your tool to tell the MO system how compatible you are with a particular business.Here’s how it works:
Let’s say you went to a great bar last night. You’d like to check out some other bars similar to it. Go to InTheMO.com, find the spot using the search bar at the top, and click the “Rec It” button on the business' profile. Rate it what you would like (70-100% if you had a good time). Doing so will tell our system that this is the kind of place you like to visit, and our system will find and recommend similar places to you. Your Recs are a simple way to share your recommendations with friends and to improve the recommendations provided to all users of the site. Recs generate predicted compatibility with other spots that you may not have been to. The more spots you rate, the more accurate our Personalized Recommendations Engine becomes at predicting your compatibility with businesses all over the world.

Take a few minutes to rate 15 of your favorite or least favorite spots in any city. We promise it will be worth the two minutes you spend, as our Personalized Recommendations Engine compares your ratings with the ratings of all our other users to serve up spots you’ll love in cities around the world. The more spots you rate, the more intelligent your personalized recommendations become, and every rating you make will help us deliver better recommendations to the whole community. How’s that for team spirit?

Street Cred are points you can earn by being active on the site. The more Street Cred you have, the more trustworthy your recommendations will be. You can compete with your friends to see who knows the most about the places and things you love. You can earn Street Cred by Rec'ing spots or items, watching videos, sharing on Facebook or Twitter, and more. Some Street Cred counts towards becoming an expert on our Expertise Leaderboard. People on the Expertise Leaderboard are the most trusted and knowledgable recommendation makers on InTheMO. You can become an Expert in a certain category (i.e. Burgers, Nightclubs) and/or you can become an Expert in a city (i.e. Los Angeles Expert). Your activity on the site and the Street Cred you earn along the way will determine what kind of Expert you become. Learn more about becoming an Expert here.

City Hosts are taste-makers and trendsetters in their various communities. We’ve picked the brains (not litterally) of the most legitimate people in cities all over the world. Our City Hosts are at the forefront of the culinary experience, art, music, film, journalism and culture...just to name a few. You can Follow City Hosts and see what spots they are into and what they think makes their city tick.

Browse cities in the U.S. or around the globe. Tell the world what you know about the coolest places in every city you have ever visited. We created videos in cities worldwide to show you the spirit of the city from the people who know it best. Click the “Videos” tab at the top of the page to view our city videos. Not all cities have spots yet. If you are in a city without any spots, you can help by adding your favorite spots.

Guides are an interactive way for you to group businesses into categories or lists. You can then share your custom Guides with friends. Have a favorite route for bar-hopping in Honolulu? Share it. Have you scouted all the best bagel places in the West Village? Hook up your friends and strangers with the inside scoop. You can create a Guide of your favorites and refer your friends to it when you want to go out and are looking for ideas. You can add spots that you have Rec’d into any custom Guide, then organize/order that list in any way you please. Where Guides are for business veterans, Wish Lists are for dreamers. The businesses contained on your Wish List can be places you have rated or ones you really want to check out. Wish Lists are a great way to plan a vacation or a night out with friends.

Friends and Followers are people with whom you share experiences on InTheMO. When you follow someone on InTheMO, they will appear in your list of Friends, and spots they Rec appear as posts in your “My Home” Message Center. You will appear in their list of Followers until they decide to follow you, at which time you each will appear as Friends of each other. You can invite friends from your Facebook, Twitter, email contact lists, instant message lists, and vCards. When you invite someone to join InTheMO, they are automatically listed as your friend on the website.

If you just created a business and can't find the business in our search results, please give the system 24 hours to populate your newly-created business in our system. If you are searching for a business and can't seem to find what you are looking for, just create a new business and add all the information you can about it, including pictures. This will make it easy for other users who may also be looking for the same business as yourself.

Impossible. We never make mistakes. Okay... we do. So what now? We have spent a lot of time building the best website we could. We probably messed up here or there and are counting on you to help us figure it out. If you find any issue, please click on the “Feedback” link in the footer. We appreciate any and all feedback, especially if you discover a problem that is affecting your experience on the site.

We want to hear from you. After all, it’s a guide to your world. We want you to use it all the time. If you have an idea that we just have to hear about, click on the “Feedback” button in the footer and send us all the great ideas that you have!

If you don't want to receive notifications from InTheMO, that's okay with us. Just hover over your name in the header and click ‘Settings’. From there, an "Account Settings" pop up will appear. Click the "Account" tab in the pop up. Under “Default Email” is a check box to opt not to receive anymore notifications. It's that easy, and we promise we won’t cry...(sniff).

InTheMO may block your account if you violate our terms of service. While we promote the free flow of information, we don't allow content that is offensive. If your account has been blocked, and you believe this to be an error, email Customer Support through our "Contact" form in the footer. Select “Help” from the drop down list and explain the issue that you need resolved. We take everything seriously (except ourselves), including users who post inappropriate content.

There are two ways to suggest a business that you think should have an InTheMO video. First, go to the business profile of the business you believe needs a video and select the "Video" tab. From there, click the "Request A Video" button. You can also go to the "Contact" form in the footer and select “Suggestion” from the drop down menu and write us a short message about why your business should have an InTheMO video.