Opinions can draw people together or pull them apart. This is particularly true when it comes to opinions about restaurants.

That desire to share culinary experiences has spawned many Main Line Restaurant Facebook groups, including Main Line Food Talk, Main Line Restaurant Reviews, Main Line Restaurant Specials, The Real Main Line Restaurant Reviews, and The Main Line And Beyond…Food, Travel And Lifestyle, writes Tara Behan Marmur, contributing editor for Main Line Tonight.

Disenchanted members of older groups continue to create their own groups as the competition between all of them intensifies. But what is driving these wars?

A lot of it has to do with whether a group allows for both positive and negative restaurant reviews and if the administrator is heavy-handed with controlling what posts are accepted or rejected.

One of the concerns with negative reviews is that it often devolves into nasty arguments between group members.

Adrian Seltzer, the administrator of Main Line Restaurant Reviews, said that when a negative review is posted, other members start bashing the person in the comments.

“I then put in place the rule that a proper response to a negative review is to post your positive experience at that restaurant for context,” she said.

Others have complained that certain restaurants get more promotion than others.

Read more about the Main Line Restaurant Facebook Wars at Main Line Tonight.

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