Ignoratio elenchi
The points, suggestions, comments have been made. My last recollection was that the review was due Nov but could have been early Dec. I know these things don't happen overnight, the point is, if there is a will on the part of the operators of this site, with the feedback already reveived from loads of people (El Gordo, Karin, Elle to name a few), change is the easy part. I have yet to be convinced about the willingness....Originally Posted by luther
I have been posting on this site for almost two years now and the same subjects just seem to keep coming up... Reviews and photos. If after two years there is still nothing done about it, they will hardly be in a mad rush to do it now.... A lot of promised made very few delivered.
I think the photos problem is insoluble. As long as there are punters who will stay and pay after seeing that it's someone else, there will be escorts who will use fake photos, and there isn't much we can do about it.
The reviews system, on the other hand, can be improved. As MrFussy said, most of the suggestions have already been made. Realistically, many of them won't work as well as hoped, just as the "trusted reviewer" system has been a disappointment. Whenever you change the system, people figure out new ways to get around it.
From a technical point of view, I've been told that the reviews system is a bit of an afterthought, tacked on to the message boards software. It might be worth keeping the reviews database and starting from scratch with the rest of the system. It can't be separated entirely from the boards, because the registration process is the same and some information from the reviews system appears at the top of boards posts, while the number of message board posts and a link to the member profile appears at the top of reviews.
“I wish you wouldn’t keep appearing and vanishing so suddenly; you make one quite giddy!”
“All right,” said the Cat; and this time it vanished quite slowly, beginning with the end of the tail, and ending with the grin, which remained some time after the rest of it had gone.
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It is part of the industry - bad, sad, none, and fake reviews.
Like men with a stinky bottom and a grubby penis.
What can you do ???????
Love and kisses
T
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Forgot one.
https://www.escort-ireland.com/board...tml#post180675
There are probably others I've forgotten as well. Don't bother to read them all. The same suggestions keep coming up again and again. Which is kind of the point, actually.
“I wish you wouldn’t keep appearing and vanishing so suddenly; you make one quite giddy!”
“All right,” said the Cat; and this time it vanished quite slowly, beginning with the end of the tail, and ending with the grin, which remained some time after the rest of it had gone.
Thanks
Thanks El Gordo.
I have also submitted some comments via PM but I think this is a good point to revisit the original suggestions.
A suggestion which has been made before is to ban repeat offenders. Not to ban them from advertising, but to ban them from the reviews system. In other words, to have a note like the "opt out" note, but saying "This escort has been removed from the E-I reviews system due to continuing concerns about dishonest reviews."
There is a very convincing reason not to do this with the current system: There is rarely any evidence that the escort herself (occasionally himself) was involved. In particular, a good way to destroy someone's reputation is to submit a lot of obviously fake positive reviews.
I think this can be made to work, but it would require a large number of changes. Some of these are also old suggestions, but I think you would need to implement all of them in order to make banning fair.
1) Ask escorts to mark all new reviews as soon as possible as definitely genuine, definitely fake, or not sure. On each review have an icon to indicate one of five possibilities:
a) marked genuine by escort
b) marked fake by escort
c) escort is unsure about this review
d) not marked yet, exercise caution
e) submitted before the new system
2) To give escorts a chance to remember whether an appointment was real, automatically reject reviews for appointments more the 48 hours old. This also allows escorts to respond to negative reviews while they still remember details of the appointment. Manually reject any which say that the date or time are not accurate.
3) Allow reviews also of escorts whose profiles are now down, but which were up during the last 48 hours. Otherwise rejecting older reviews is unfair.
4) Don't lose reviews! Otherwise the 48 hour rule won't work. In particular, no reviewer should ever see the "thank you for submitting a review" unless the review has gone into the system.
5) Allow reviewers to select times at half hour intervals, not just hour intervals.
6) Rat only reviews which have been marked by the escort, to give escorts a chance to report fake positive reviews themselves.
7) Ban repeat offenders, i.e. escorts who accumulate too many ratted positive reviews which are marked genuine. It's probably best not to have a fixed rule about how many is too many, or escorts will opt out just in time to avoid banning.
“I wish you wouldn’t keep appearing and vanishing so suddenly; you make one quite giddy!”
“All right,” said the Cat; and this time it vanished quite slowly, beginning with the end of the tail, and ending with the grin, which remained some time after the rest of it had gone.
Banned User
what do you do if youve submitted a review and it doesnt show up?
ive submitted the review twice now and still no sign of it
Queen of Tarts
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A month ago a completely new version of this message board software was released, which we have to upgrade to. Our reviews system is intergrated with our message board, therefore as a result of this we have to re-write the whole reviews system just to get back to square 1. You don't appreciate it I know, but this is what is going on at the moment.
Since about Jan 1st, I've been telling our developers, if possible, don't spend time working on our existing reviews system, just focus on the new one and lets try to get it out as soon as possible. So there has not been a lot of changes to reviews system this month I hope, but to say there have been no changes in last 2 years is soooooooooooo not true. There were in fact loads of changes made in November / December.
Thanks everyone for the feedback. I feel, in a way, I am better off cracking the whip trying to get new reviews system done than hanging around here making promises.
Pat x
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Actually........
I mostly just see whinging going on all over the boards.........
If we could get some constructive ideas or suggestions brought together then I will personally bring these to Patricias attention and nag her till I get her to look, consider and comment on them........
Otherwise it's just loads of threads bitching about the same thing all over the boards with everybody complaining but nobody making any suggestions..........
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