Quote Originally Posted by El Gordo View Post
References are useless. You can't see who gave them, so there is no reason to trust them. Actually they are worse than useless, because they create an illusion of trustworthiness, without anything real to support it. There is nothing to stop a pimp from having his girls all give references to whichever profiles he uses to review them.
Im with Gordie on this one... if trustworthiness were to be attributed to references it would be like any punter who feels like it assigning TR status to himself.