Not really... What I am seeing more and more on this board are overly analytical or even obsessive personalities. This thread is a good example
Review rating system
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Although I haven't read the entire thread, nobody seems to recall that such a system was instituted and used by poster "Robin" over 20 years ago. As I recall Robin provided a thread and a link to his own compendium of reviews.And it was allowed by the Moderators. Robin was EXTREMELY prolific and (apparently) a straight shooter.
Having been around long enough to observe the Robin system, my opinion is it only works if it's a poster like Robin who has 100 other reviews he has posted and you can compare the stars awarded from one to the other. From my own experiences and with some differences of opinion, Robin was generally on target. I do genuinely believe he tried to be objective in writing reviews and assigning stars, although it's an inherently subjective task.
However if you have some novices who have only seen a few escorts their reviews don't mean anything. What Robin posted was a link to a compendium of reviews he spent a couple of years amassing.
In 22 years of MERB, and I have actually been here for all of it, Robin was the ONLY poster who I saw implement such a review system and in my opinion it was only successful for the reasons I have mentioned.
I see a lot of threads going up, including this one, in which people are trying to invent or reinvent the wheel. In this case we are not breaking new ground. There was a pioneer and his name was Robin. I am not certain but I believe he is no longer with us. He hasn't posted in many years and heard some reports he passed, which I have no idea if they were true. He was as prolific as anyone on MERB in around 2001 (pre MERB) until 2005.
Do a search and you will find his intellectual property, which is now dated and worthless.
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I seem to recall using his spreadsheet as a jumping off point. I think it was his anyway.
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Unless this guy was alive in the early 1800s I doubt he invented the rating system. Granted, they didn't use it for escort review boards as those didn't exist back then, but star ratings were used for works of art, services, restaurants, hotels... And likely amongst clients of sex workers too, just not on a board. Lol
Who don't have time to read a review. Reading is the only way you can get an idea and make your own.
There are too many parameters to take in account to resume it in a single rating.
But this doesn't tell anything. You may answer yes because it's your first experience with an SP and everything would have work.
Some never repeats because they prefer to discover new gems.
Anyway, often you will know very soon if the vibe was good overall after reading 2-3 lines.
Give me an honest report and I will make a judgement on if the woman would be good for me. Others could have a total different view and it is perfectly normal.
What is this idea wanting a binary choice? Human relations are much more than that.
If you do your own ranking, on 100 encounters you might have 10 absolute GREEN and 10 absolute RED. So what about the vast majority 80 in between?
Often after reading a review that was describing a total positive experience by the poster, you can feel it was not your cup of tea and you would never sea this escort.
Looking for a star system like this is desiged for the same type of person who contacts us and asks us to repeat all the details in our ads because they don't want to take the time to open the ad and read the details for themselves.
It is better to read and properly educate yourself rather then trying to cut even more corners when booking someone.
It is better to read and properly educate yourself rather then trying to cut even more corners when booking someone.
Last thing I'll say on this thread.. It's not because a client is new to seeing escorts or doesn't post a lot of reviews that his point of view is not valid. A lot of men actually told me they were traumatized by a first experience with an escort, or really disappointed by most first experiences. I've had a lot of clients who were new to seeing escorts and repeated several times because they genuinely enjoyed their experience with me. The opposite can be true. Some clients seem to get really disillusioned over time and clearly have a sex addiction, and the nature of addiction is that at some point it's no longer satisfactory or you need something more and more intense to satiate your ''need''. A lot of clients book me because they like my personality, and I know it's the case for many colleagues of mine. Your average hobbyist would laugh at the idea of booking an escort because you truly like her as a person.
This!!! This is so important. Even now, in a lot of review threads details that can already be found in the ads are shared and asked for, too.
''what's the damage?''
''read the ad!!''
The reality is we are all somones 1 star rating, and we are all someones 10 star rating, on a 5 star chart. It all depends what specific attractions you are looking for.
If he was he'd have better pattern recognition skills and compassion for other people who are constantly judged
I find it entertaining that a simple suggestion turned me into the main subject. Apparently, offering an idea people disagree with is enough to question someone’s mental state.
Some throwing around terms like ‘autistic’ as if that’s a punchline. It’s wild how quickly a conversation shifts from the topic at hand to scrutinizing the person behind a suggestion.
The inability to debate ideas without attacking someone personally is honestly more telling than anything I said.
Thank you very much for the informative and constructive answer and will definitely do the search.
I agree that it was really inappropriate to question your mental state but your suggestion shows a lack of compassion for providers.. you're also speaking in our name by saying ''this would be better for us'', but you didn't listen to any of our opinions. I think this is why people are reacting the way they are.
You don't need to do a search as your colleague MCTJ found and posted Robin's compendium of reviews. See post #63. It brought back memories of some of the ladies I also saw, like Porcha and Allyson of Satin Dreamz. It also reminded me that Robin really liked Rebeka Anderson of FKS. For those who don't remember FKS, it was a self described "consortium of indies", although it was seemingly operated as an HDH agency. It may have been a hybrid with attributes of both an agency and a consortium of indies. But they advertised as the latter.
Robin's was the first (and only) compendium of Montreal escort reviews I saw posted by anyone, that initially used a 5 star system. Robin later moved to a 10 star system, I think due to feedback from his readers. I kind of think it only worked for the reasons I said.
Look at the Yelp restaurant review model. It only works if there is a lot of reviews. If there are 3 reviews you roll the dice.
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That’s easily fixable by saying “Recommend” instead of “Repeat.”
But saying people “struggle with a simple concept” and that you “wouldn’t expect an idiot to understand” makes me wonder : How many of us clients fall into the “idiot” category in your mind? Because if I talked about sps like that, I’d be crucified. Funny how calling your own clients dumb is somehow acceptable when it’s dressed up as critique.
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It feels like this thread has run its course. I know I'm old-school but I'm still surprised at how merb has become so personal about everything. I guess it's just the way of the internet these days. Maybe I'm being nostalgic but I miss the days when we mixed business (seeing escorts) and pleasure (sex) without personal rancor.
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