Piss taking in the review system

[An don]

With all the fake reviews lately from "registered to leave review" brigade, is it time for E-I to adopt as policy of making new users to wait a set length of time before reviewing. I don't think the pming new users is working.

[alexis]

I agree there are far too many people registering to leave reviews and leaving it on same day they should have to be a registered user a certain amount before they can leave one and perhaps log on a certain amout of times aswell maybe.

Alot of them seem to leave two reivews to make their review look more plausable and its not fair on the innocent escort possibily getting a rat on her page because of this.

I know it wont stop fake reviews but it will require a bit more effort and therefore might discourage them.

[Bodkin]

I agree there are far too many people registering to leave reviews and leaving it on same day they should have to be a registered user a certain amount before they can leave one and perhaps log on a certain amout of times aswell maybe.

Alot of them seem to leave two reivews to make their review look more plausable and its not fair on the innocent escort possibily getting a rat on her page because of this.

I know it wont stop fake reviews but it will require a bit more effort and therefore might discourage them.

Yes it's crazy to allow total strangers to damage the hard-earned good reputations of professional escorts. I often wonder whether posting reviews should be free for clients - okay, basic access to the site, the ability to view escort profiles & reviews needs to be free, but perhaps the ability to post reviews should cost clients something? This way only those of us who are genuinely interested in using this site to promoting a good working environment for professional escorts would have the ability to express their opinion and those who just want to be vulgar pricks can revert to their old method of speaking their mind - scribbling on public toilet walls.

Also some reviews are unnecessarily harsh - giving a negative review for very minor complaints and situations or occurrences that are beyond the control of the escort in question. I guess this reflects just how little consideration those reviewers give to the escorts they are posting against & how little insight they have into the harsh realities of the business. For example guys living in some cow town in the middle of nowhere should be thanking their lucky stars that an incredibly beautiful & vivacious courtesan has arrived in their midst - not complaining that the apartment where she is operating suffers in comparison to the Taj Mahal.

For my part I give very little creedence to any review written by a new user or user with only one or two posts - of course there are exceptions: with some posters it is very obvious from the tenor of their post that they are genuine and had an experience that they felt they had to share (be it positive or negative). I'm doubly sceptical when a new poster writes a bad review, especially when they are posting against an escort with an overall positive profile. There was a classic example of this discussed on this forum recently.

[Monkeynut]

Yes it's crazy to allow total strangers to damage the hard-earned good reputations of professional escorts. I often wonder whether posting reviews should be free for clients - okay, basic access to the site, the ability to view escort profiles & reviews needs to be free, but perhaps the ability to post reviews should cost clients something? This way only those of us who are genuinely interested in using this site to promoting a good working environment for professional escorts would have the ability to express their opinion and those who just want to be vulgar pricks can revert to their old method of speaking their mind - scribbling on public toilet walls.

Also some reviews are unnecessarily harsh - giving a negative review for very minor complaints and situations or occurrences that are beyond the control of the escort in question. I guess this reflects just how little consideration those reviewers give to the escorts they are posting against & how little insight they have into the harsh realities of the business. For example guys living in some cow town in the middle of nowhere should be thanking their lucky stars that an incredibly beautiful & vivacious courtesan has arrived in their midst - not complaining that the apartment where she is operating suffers in comparison to the Taj Mahal.

For my part I give very little creedence to any review written by a new user or user with only one or two posts - of course there are exceptions: with some posters it is very obvious from the tenor of their post that they are genuine and had an experience that they felt they had to share (be it positive or negative). I'm doubly sceptical when a new poster writes a bad review, especially when they are posting against an escort with an overall positive profile. There was a classic example of this discussed on this forum recently.

^^^^^ what he said ^^^^^^ Well done that man

[Lucy Chambers]

^^^^^ what he said ^^^^^^ Well done that man

Agreed. In fact, perfectly said. Excellent post Bodkin.

[Rodney69]

I don’t post that much or have that many reviews but here’s my opinion anyway.
In general I think the review system works very well if used wisely. Yes it has it’s problems, no system is going to be fool proof. The moderators have a tough job and should be thanked for the worked they do more often.

I don’t base any decision on one review or that of a Trusted reviewer for that matter, because everyone has different tastes and expectations when they visit a lady. You should be able to work that out from a trend in reviews, no matter who they are submitted by, and not just by one or two. Maybe you have come across another reviewer that has visited the same ladies as you and written a review that you agree with

Some reviews of course can be ignored, e.g maybe a reviewer has a tendency to submit a lot more negative than positive, registered on day of leaving review and has never submitted another one. Etc …

[ChiefHandker]

Must say I think there's something to the idea of having a waiting period befre a new registered user can post a review.
A week seems a bit long, maybe 24 or 48 hours? Any longer and it could affect touring girls reviews as they could've moved county or have their listing suspended by the time a genuine first time reviewer is eligible to post his review.
There's no fullproof solution to weeding out dishonest reviews completely but it would at least mske it less convenient for them.

[JAMESCORK]

Must say I think there's something to the idea of having a waiting period befre a new registered user can post a review.
A week seems a bit long, maybe 24 or 48 hours? Any longer and it could affect touring girls reviews as they could've moved county or have their listing suspended by the time a genuine first time reviewer is eligible to post his review.
There's no fullproof solution to weeding out dishonest reviews completely but it would at least mske it less convenient for them.

Unfortunately It may make it less convenient for the first time Reviewer as well and we may all lose out on his experiences.

Tis a tricky one....

[mr maxi]

With all the fake reviews lately from "registered to leave review" brigade, is it time for E-I to adopt as policy of making new users to wait a set length of time before reviewing. I don't think the pming new users is working.

I totally agree. You should not be allowed to log on and post review same day. There should be a time scale and maybe a 10 post rule before you are allowed to review.

[Doozer]

I agree in theory but a lot of punters dont realy take part on the boards they just see escorts and leave reviews and we would be alieanating them