Ratted reviews

[ChiefHandker]

Must say, from a client perspective I disagree with the OP.
Any client who goes to the trouble of doing their research and reading through reviews will be able to weigh up the facts and it's useful to have as much information as possible. Sometimes ratted reviews have the favourable green symbol, sometimes the negative red - both are posted for polar opposite reasons and quite often there is a reason cited by staff why it was ratted in the first place.
Also, if you start deleting rats then it sheds less light on how trustworthy that reviewer is. Quite often i've read an unblemished review, thought to myself "that looks like a load of s***e" only to see that he has a dubious reputation or that it was a once off review.
There's also the issue that review system is good, but not perfect. Unless the reviewer admits themself that it's fake, staff may be practically certain but not 100% that it should be ratted so there again, they shouldn't be deleted. Maybe i'm wrong here but I don't i am.

Personally I think they should be left, red or green, as any client who bothers to look at and assess the reviews will be able to let his own common sense prevail.

[dave1dave]

Just say for example a reviewer has six reviews. And then we prove that two of them are fake. Going by what you guys are saying we would delete those two reviews and no one would be any the wiser that he was fake.

If they were without a doubt fake I would leave them there and just indicate if they are linked to the escort.
If you have time between sending myself and monster PMs

[diannasweet]

Just say for example a reviewer has six reviews. And then we prove that two of them are fake. Going by what you guys are saying we would delete those two reviews and no one would be any the wiser that he was fake.

I understand your wonder but if he had 4 good and 2 fake would ppl trust him in future?????i think once he been discovered all his reviews should be removed and not only the fake ones and as ye already do ban the user name....that could be a option and a way of stop ppl post fake reviews.....

[mr maxi]

Just say for example a reviewer has six reviews. And then we prove that two of them are fake. Going by what you guys are saying we would delete those two reviews and no one would be any the wiser that he was fake.

Mr highwayman.
I say ban the fucker.
Surely if someone as a habit of writing suspect reviews and they are ratted should they be banned.
A clamp down on these people is surely called for.
Just an idea but maybe 3 strikes and your out. If i had my way it would be 1 strike and your out.

[monster_monster]

Just say for example a reviewer has six reviews. And then we prove that two of them are fake. Going by what you guys are saying we would delete those two reviews and no one would be any the wiser that he was fake.

as per your example above, I would delete all of their reviews and ban the account. If someone is willing to submit two fake reviews then they are obviously dodgy so all of their other reviews would come under suspicion too.

i know this might not be popular, but it seems to me that some fake reviewers try to review know reputable escorts with plenty of reviews and business hoping to fall in between the cracks. By doing this they are hoping that the escort won't remember their exact meeting, sure who does know exactly what they were doing in work last Thursday at 2pm?

They do this in order to make their fake reviews for escorts they are trying to push seem more plausible, who is going to say you should be ratted when you have 5 reviews of decent girls and one of someone you are trying to drum up business for.

I could be way of the mark here but it is just a theory I have had for a little while

[dave1dave]

as per your example above, I would delete all of their reviews and ban the account. If someone is willing to submit two fake reviews then they are obviously dodgy so all of their other reviews would come under suspicion too.

i know this might not be popular, but it seems to me that some fake reviewers try to review know reputable escorts with plenty of reviews and business hoping to fall in between the cracks. By doing this they are hoping that the escort won't remember their exact meeting, sure who does know exactly what they were doing in work last Thursday at 2pm?

They do this in order to make their fake reviews for escorts they are trying to push seem more plausible, who is going to say you should be ratted when you have 5 reviews of decent girls and one of someone you are trying to drum up business for.

I could be way of the mark here but it is just a theory I have had for a little while

I agree with your theory monster, and think they may be throwing in the odd negative review on someone they see as a threat.

[mr maxi]

Just say for example a reviewer has six reviews. And then we prove that two of them are fake. Going by what you guys are saying we would delete those two reviews and no one would be any the wiser that he was fake.

Sorry to highlight this one again but i do feel very strongly about this scenario.
I do think that if someone has more than one rat then all their reviews in my opinion simply cannot believed , no matter how many other reviews they have.
I do understand what a difficult job the review moderators have and how time consuming the job is but surely there is some way of weeding out the fake reviewers.
I am yet to see a good reason why the rat reviews are published.
Am i missing something here and your thoughts please.

[El Gordo]

Reasons for keeping ratted reviews:

- It often tells you something useful about the reviewer or escort.
- E-I make mistakes. Sometimes reviews are ratted incorrectly, and removing them makes it nearly impossible to correct those mistakes.

[Monkeynut]

Or what about the reviewer.
If you see a review and teh author has a lot of rats on his reviews profile page you will know not to trust any of his reviews
even the ones without rats

Well then why let him continue to write fake reviews? Ratted reviews should be removed as they are fake and the reviewer banned. After all Jackpot was banned for writing a fake review wasnt he!

[herodotus]

If a review is ratted then the real question is why has it been ratted. If it is ratted because the person has not seen the girl then the review should be delted and all reviews by that reviewer should be deleted on the grounds that the reviewer is untrustworty or at the very least the reviewer should have some sort of mark beside his name to signify that he is untrustworthy and noone should take the reviews seriously.

If he did see the girl and writes a fake review then the same should happen.

However, if this happens to a girl with 50 mostly positive reviews then a ratted review does not mean much and the most reasonable assumption is that the reviewer has some ulterior motive but if the girl has only a small number of reviews then it is unfair to leave a ratted review as you will immediately wonder why she has them and suspect that she may be involved somehow, even if this is not the case.

So basically ratted reviews mean different thigs depending on who is the subject of the review.

I am not sure if that is an arguement for getting rid of ratted reviews. But if they are deleted and the reviewer has other non ratted reviews then even if they are deleted it should be clear that the reviewer in question has had reviews deleted because he is untrustowrthy. There are example of a usually trustowrthy reviewer giving a fake review for all sorts of reasons.