These proposed systems are over-complicated and are being over-thought by the wrong people, i.e. people that spend a lot of time on the site, posting on the message boards and submitting reviews.
What would be created, and maybe this is the unwritten intention at the back of all this, is a system where only a select few will have attained membership of the ‘golden circle’, learned the secret handshakes, received the invitation to the high table at the king’s banquet while all others will be excluded unless they jump through the (hula) hoops of those in charge.
Asking reviewers to put so much work in will put them off writing reviews, as the reviews would become worthless unless they agreed with one submitted by a ‘trusted reviewer’. Asking an escort for a reference will mean only positive reviews will be submitted.
It’s funny that asking an escort for their cooperation before submitting a review is now being recommended while only recently any review that was suspected of being too close to the escort was ratted, I believe the word ‘sap’ was used in describing the reviewer, how time flies....
There’s a story behind each escort, each reviewer, each client and each browser of this site. To ask all to comply with a strict set of rules or be left feeling that their opinion doesn’t matter is wrong. Some relationships between clients and escorts are cordial and friendly, maybe developing over time into actual friendships, some just purely financial, it is something private between those parties. If they choose to share their experiences, either party, they should not be discouraged. If others feel the comments submitted are disingenuous they should certainly have a right of reply. If someone is willing to fight for their opinion there is more likelihood it is true, the escort submitting a review for him or herself will probably not bother trying to back it up, it would only attract more attention. Likewise a malicious review should be open to challenge by the escorts or others who have spent time with that escort. The site should open up to more of such debate instead of inventing rules that will close the site off to people.
The operators, and moderators of this site need to ask themselves a fundamental question before they start inventing criteria that only a few users of the site can meet and only a few will want to meet.
Do they want to encourage new people to participate in the site?
Because if they do the path being suggested will work against that and encourage people not to participate in which case the reviews and the posts become a private club. In that case just meet up in a pub somewhere and have a good gossip and a bitching session once a week, clear the air and go back to work.
My open involvement with the site is very small to date. The question is whether the operators of the site want to encourage someone like me to continue to participate or not because the measures being suggested would certainly encourage me to take on the role of Conscientious Objector, making my own choices and keeping my opinions and experiences to myself, and leave the few to chat among themselves separate from the outside world.
"Nothing is funnier than unhappiness" - Samuel Beckett