This thread has been enlightening & I thought I would give my thoughts.....
I would agree that escorts appreciate reviews as this reflects their line of work & to be honest a great way to get exposure & generate interest with potential clients. This is why there is a common practice for fake reviews written by themselves or by their pimps. I can fully understand why EI have to assess whether a review is fake or not because it is unfair if reviews have been written to boost an escort profile. Punters should remember that 'Beauty is in the eye of the Beholder' - what is one man's meat is another mans' poison etc.
Following the comments made I personally think the review system does not reflect the popularity fairly as there are escorts who have reviews from clients who frequently visit them eg: Chocoman seeing Sara 12x. is a prime example. As Stewie said it does tend to distort the review system if the most popular reviewed escorts have clients who repeatedly post reviews. It is not imperative to report back to EI about every visit you have with an escort - I would say 2/3 times is reasonable unless you have a bad session with an escort you once had a good time with. As Anna so rightly said if her regulars wrote a review for every visit to her then she would not have to advertise again. It highlights the fact that is it really necessary or even fair to post more than 2-3 reviews???
If you were to look at how the system works you may/may not agree that it does seem unfair. For example:
Escort A (55 reviews) - 6 guys x 5 good reviews (=30) + 15 single reviews + 10 bad reviews
= ONLY 21 clients/good reviews
Escort B (50 reviews) - 6 guys x 5 good reviews (=30) + 20 single reviews + 0 bad reviews
= ONLY 26 clients /good reviews
Escort C (40 reviews) - 5 guys x 3 good reviews (=15) + 18 single reviews + 7 bad reviews
= ONLY 33 clients/good reviews
Escort D (35 reviews ) - 35 single reviews + 0 bad reviews
= ONLY 35 clients/.good reviews
Therefore if you were to remove the bad reviews & duplicated reviews from the same clients then the list would change to:
Escort D (35 reviews)
Escort C (40 reviews)
Escort B (50 reviews)
Escort A (55 reviews)
Why should Escort A be on the top of the list just because her punters deem it necessary to post a review after every visit. It is very obvious that by posting more than 1-3 reviews that the punter likes Escort A but some clients may visit Escort D on a regular basis but has only posted one review because he doesn't feel it necessary to post again & again.
EI admin would argue if they stipulate a maximum number of reviews then punters/clients could post reviews under a false ID in order to generate interest for a particular escort. As in this arguement about Chocomans' necessity to review 12x it does seem to show favouritism & intent to boost Saras' exposure & increase her popularity. It doesn't seem fair when another escort may have a client who has seen her twice as many times but doesn't know how or doesn't want to do a review.
In my opinion I think it would be an idea to somehow incorporate a list where it shows single reviews from clients but if they wish to include more than one review then it should be highlighted next to the User ID. For example:
EscortNaughtyGirl - 31/05/09 review - Punter IrishNaughtyman (4)
The (4) would represent the number of reviews IrishNaughtyman has done for NaughtyGirl -
So all you will see are single reviews by individual clients with a numbered bracket for multiple reviews from a particular client . It would then be up to the individual punter to make a judgement on the number of reviews.
I hope the above makes sense & I don't know if my suggestion would be workable.
I would be interested to read your thoughts on this - would it be fair? would it work? Wonder what EI Admin think about this?
Anyway......thats my input! Look forward to reading the response.
Sexycoolbabe Lauren