How the webpage “Be A Better Camper” Helps Your Campsite
A relatively new site has arrived that could improve your RV camping. This site, called Be a Better Camper, has a couple of missions in mind.
Camping, especially via an RV, has grown and become more popular as more professionals work from home or have remote jobs that don’t require them to punch a clock or stay in one place. This is great for those who want to discover the country and see more of the world around them.
The Missions of Be a Better Camper
While the website is still relatively new and doesn’t have many pages for you to review and enjoy yet, the two missions of this site are right in front of you on the homepage.
Mission One –Get rid of the bad RV’ers by filing complaints on this website
Mission Two –Encourage kindness and messages of inclusion with painted rocks
Hmm, is it possible these two missions are contradictory to each other, and a different approach needs to be employed? Let’s discuss:
Complaints Made Easy
Whether you’re new to camping with an RV or you’ve been doing it for years, you should know there are rules that you must follow at every campground. There are typically quiet hours where you need to be inside your camper or tent and keep the noise to a minimum level. Because there isn’t much to keep your noise from traveling this is an important part of maintaining the experience.
The Be a Better Camper website makes it easy to file a complaint if your neighbor is being loud, unruly, or obnoxious. If you’re not a person who likes to confront others, this could be an easy way for you to file a complaint. When you do, two things will happen.
- The complaint will be posted immediately to the website and on social media to be seen by the public.
- The campground will receive an anonymous complaint they can then deal with right away.
While that sounds great, is this truly the best way to handle a problem with a neighbor while camping?
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Too Similar to an HOA
Some of you reading this will say “thank you” and “halleluiah, finally” because you’re tired of the unruly campers that you’ve found at the campsites you’ve visited. Here’s a thought though; why aren’t you handling this problem on your own. Typically, you can contact the campground office on your own, if you don’t want to confront your unruly neighbor, or you can walk over and nicely ask them to be more respectful of you as their neighbor.
As HOAs became more popular and are now part of nearly every neighborhood in the country, the neighborly way of doing things has gone away. Today, if you have a problem with something your neighbor is doing, you don’t ask them to change their ways, you file a complaint with the HOA office.
This is done many times without knowing why your neighbor is leaving their grass unmowed or why they are working on their car in the driveway. The idea of being neighbors has come to only mean people that live near each other and not a community.
Kindness Encouraged by Be a Better Camper
Hidden painted rocks that can be collected and then hidden again are a wonderful way to share messages of kindness, encouragement, and positivity. This is a mission and message that should be shared. You could find a rock that tells you “someone cares,” “keep on trying,” or “you’re awesome,” and you’ll feel great all day.
These messages of kindness encourage campers to share more messages and paint more rocks to offer positivity to campers that come along after them. It can be a lot of fun for kids to look for these rocks at campgrounds, for adults to stumble across them, and for everyone to enjoy sharing them via social media.
The Dichotomy of Messages May Need Tweaking
When you head to the Be a Better Camper website, you see the complaint section right at the top of the home page and the messages of positivity pushed down the page. Maybe there’s a better way to approach this. While filing a complaint with campers is breaking rules and being disruptive is part of what you should be able to do, it should be considered the last thing you do. When you take action to have campers removed from a campsite you’re putting an end to someone else’s vacation and fun, and it might only be because you’re having a bad night.
The Be a Better Camper website can be useful, but it needs to be used sparingly when it comes to filing complaints but used often to share messages of positivity.