Reviews vs. Ads

[Noob888]

It sounds vague to some, but that minimalist style is how I do things now. I think some things are not advertised for reasons of the SW's privacy, and so on, and it is fair they want to keep some matters private, or not be talked about in some crass way. When in doubt, I hold back info.

I am not promoting, but it should be possible to give a good review or even just an informative one, without it being overly specific.

How I see the process is:

Attraction is very subjective & personal. If someone is looking up a specific person in a review, they're probably already seen the provider's ad, and the attraction / interest is already there. The reading reviews or question-asking stage is to do some more vetting before moving from interest to intention, and next is the stage where they ask the provider or group directly (moving finally from intention to action, or not).

A review is 75% a legitimacy check for avoiding the negative stuff and maybe 25% to see who is most recommended for something specific. The better providers out there get consistently good reviews (and it is good to know who the best are), but I think the real key to being one of the better providers (or groups) is that they are not getting bad reviews.

I am not promoting, but it should be possible to give a good review or even just an informative one, without it being overly specific.

From what I've seen, many who claim they're not promoting are in fact promoting.

It sounds vague to some, but that minimalist style is how I do things now.

From the reader's perspective, they may wonder what's the point then of doing a review other than to attract "likes" or upvotes and to increase your post count. I've already seen an entire thread here where a member is extremely proud about reaching a thousand posts. Is there a posting competition I'm not aware of?

Forgive me, but I'm trying hard to see things from your perspective where you rationalize only providing a "minimalistic" review.

Please explain why does a "popular" well-reviewed provider need a current review, no matter how brief or non-specific, anyway? We can get info (based on past reviews) using this site's search feature. If we have specific questions, we have the 411 section to ask. Unless of course the [true] intent of the review is for promotional reasons?

I think the real key to being one of the better providers (or groups) is that they are not getting bad reviews.

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Hmm. Ok. maybe it's just me. But I'm inferring the reviewer's [provider's loyalist] true intent is to shield, protect, and defend a provider from [bad] reviews. Isn't there a specific name for this? We see this happening online with businesses on Google reviews and Yelp. When one negative review is posted, many others will follow in succession to write multiple stellar reviews hoping to invalidate the negative review(s).

I thought with the initial post in this thread, this board is taking steps to have a more "balanced" review of providers?

Anyway, I'm surprised this ad versus reviews post is not a sticky and locked unless the forum is having second thoughts on whether to keep or [enforce] this "guideline".

 

[SolidSnake]

These days many posts are written without any specifics. They are merely endorsements, not reviews. As a rule I disregard such posts. They are useless fluff to the reader.

 

[rlock]

From the reader's perspective, they may wonder what's the point then of doing a review other than to attract "likes" or upvotes and to increase your post count. I've already seen an entire thread here where a member is extremely proud about reaching a thousand posts. Is there a posting competition I'm not aware of?

Forgive me, but I'm trying hard to see things from your perspective where you rationalize only providing a "minimalistic" review.

Please explain why does a "popular" well-reviewed provider need a current review, no matter how brief or non-specific, anyway? We can get info (based on past reviews) using this site's search feature. If we have specific questions, we have the 411 section to ask. Unless of course the [true] intent of the review is for promotional reasons?

The only standard I feel any need to uphold, aside from mine, is the mods of this board (who are already pros at detecting actual shills). Whatever I write in a review is as much as I judged was necessary while keeping a reasonable amount of discretion and tact. Lots of providers dislike overly-detailed reviews. They have privacy boundaries which exist to protect themselves from scumbags and other more general kinds of harm. I respect that - but not to the point where I'd refuse to give a bad review when I've had a bad experience. The good providers and the bad ones are all in competition, for the same limited pool of dollars. Every dollar that a scammer gets is money taken away from good providers who could have had that business instead.

I don't care about likes, post count, or any other metric of social media popularity. Do I need to provide a play-by-play of every specific act and position? No. Should I be held responsible if someone who looks like a 9 to me looks like a 6.2 to someone else? No. Does her pussy conform to the ASTM F899-12 standard? "NUNYA." Have doubts? Check the context. Still doubt it after that? Not my problem. I share my experiences; I do not vouch for every potential scenario or interaction with absolute certainty.

I'm not connected to this trade at all, and never benefitted one dollar from anything I wrote here. I reciprocate on this board because I have benefitted from the info on it. I've had relatively few bad experiences, and avoided some pitfalls, thanks to seeing reviews that were credible red flags.

There's also the motivation of providing a slightly better idea, so people can be matched up with the kind of provider they want, but I'm not going to hand-hold someone else through every step of the process, nor assume that what I want and what they want is the same. Of course it's also good to know some more info that is pertinent to what I personally want, but I do not expect anyone else to know what that is, nor am I going to act like the style police for reviews written by other people about their experiences. If I feel the need to ask them about something specific which was not mentioned, I will ask in the thread if it is not too intrusive. If it is to intrusive for the general public, but maybe still answerable, I will DM them.

 

[Noob888]

These days many posts are written without any specifics. They are merely endorsements, not reviews. As a rule I disregard such posts. They are useless fluff to the reader.

Maybe it's just me. But it seems to me there's an increase in the number of ads masquerading as reviews, especially amongst newish members.

I know the majority on Perb aren't receptive to the idea, but if we had a mandatory template for reviews, especially for new members, that would reduce the number of "fluff" as you put it.

 

[Forum mod]

There has been a rash of really quite blatant unpaid promotion in the guise of reviews in the past few days. I mean not even an attempt to actually review, posting links to ads, posting pics, pure simping and no review details. No rates, no services, nothing save for, you won't believe how good she is guys, treat her well type promo wording. She might be the best provider ever, it does not matter, the rules are the same.

If you are going to post a review, post a review. Read the links in my signature and at least make an effort to actually review the lady.
If she doesn't pay to advertise here, don't post a link, don't post a pic; when combined with the lack of review detail, this tips it over from well meaning simp into unpaid promotion.
Even if she does pay to advertise here, don't show up from another city and merely pump her tires. Post an actual review or don't bother.

If this keeps up, we will seriously consider banning people who keep at this, especially new handles from out of town. It reeks of manipulation of the board and shilling and we will not tolerate it. If there happens to be any proof of collusion with the lady in question, the ban is immediate and permanent.